diff --git a/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js b/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js
index 42b7fabe0..4fca12952 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js
@@ -432,7 +432,8 @@ class VoiceConnection extends EventEmitter {
    * Options that can be passed to stream-playing methods:
    * @typedef {Object} StreamOptions
    * @property {number} [seek=0] The time to seek to
-   * @property {number} [volume=1] The volume to play at
+   * @property {number|boolean} [volume=1] The volume to play at. Set this to false to disable volume transforms for
+   * this stream to improve performance.
    * @property {number} [passes=1] How many times to send the voice packet to reduce packet loss
    * @property {number} [plp] Expected packet loss percentage
    * @property {boolean} [fec] Enabled forward error correction
diff --git a/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js b/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js
index 8ef3d7673..a681f3a95 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js
@@ -55,8 +55,12 @@ class AudioPlayer extends EventEmitter {
 
   playPCMStream(stream, options, streams = {}) {
     this.destroyDispatcher();
-    const volume = streams.volume = new prism.VolumeTransformer16LE(null, { volume: 0.2 });
     const opus = streams.opus = new prism.opus.Encoder({ channels: 2, rate: 48000, frameSize: 960 });
+    if (options && options.volume === false) {
+      stream.pipe(opus);
+      return this.playOpusStream(opus, options, streams);
+    }
+    const volume = streams.volume = new prism.VolumeTransformer16LE(null, { volume: options ? options.volume : 1 });
     stream.pipe(volume).pipe(opus);
     return this.playOpusStream(opus, options, streams);
   }