Marsupial wrote: > I am currently giving a test run with icecast/darkice and one of the > cheap usb soundcard mentioned earlier, only to notice the audio out of > the stream is much less loud than anything else you can tune to. > > Even if I crank the Capture level in alsamixer, it is still not on par > with other streams (plus it gets quite noisy) > > Is that similar results to using the Behringer? > > Is there a way to make the stream louder? > > > > For comparison purposes, I used the phono into a solid state power amp > from the 70s to prove the phono level to noise is acceptable. > > Then I try to feed it trough the usb sound card (phono in Mic, > headphones out to the same amp) - here I get a lower level - and some > noise as I crank the output to hear the signal. > > Then I connected the same amp to a piCorePlayer rasp 1b playing the > stream, the output is even lower. > > Tried to play the stream through a browser, the level is also much lower > than I anticipated. > > Is this caused by bad settings or just a bad usb capture device? > > Any help would be appreciated.
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