On 2011-11-03, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, > the volume can't be said to be louder than "comfortable and sensible". > In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power > supply. I know from plugging in my iPod that the loudspeakers are > capable of much more. > > The three volume controls up at full are (i) the one in aqualung; (ii) > the one in alsamixer; (iii) the physical control on the right speaker. > > Surely I can get more volume, somehow. Could somebody please suggest > how.
The easiest answer seems to be to get an audio card (or USB dongle) that has a real line-level output rather than just a headphone-level output. Some amplified speakers need more signal than others, and many on-board audio outputs are utter crap. A friend of mine had some _nice_ Bose computer speakers plugged into her green "audio out" jack. You had to turn all the volumes up to 11 to hear much, and it sounded awful. I plugged in a $20 USB audio out dongle with a real line-level output, and now it sounds great. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Are we live or on at tape? gmail.com