I'm talking out my arse here, but: To me, your submission vaguely reminds me of the CD Loudness War < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war>. It sounds to me as if your hardware may be inherently a bit too quiet, but to an extent it's possible to compensate for that by pre-processing the signal in a similar way "Loudness War" CD vendors did when producing their master â but this reduces dynamic range. It may well be that those Windows drivers are doing just that, to compensate for buggy, craptastic audio hardware. But again, I really don't know; I just thought I'd mention this since nobody else has.
On 11 July 2015 at 17:30, tekk <t...@parlementum.net> wrote: > On 07/11/2015 08:24 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > >> On Jul 10 19:15:31, h...@stare.cz wrote: >> >>> On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote: >>> >>>> I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) >>>> Audio >>>> is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything >>>> maxed >>>> out. I had a similar problem on Linux >>>> >>> Are you sure the audio hardware is actually capable >> of playing louder than it does? How exactly are you playing what? >> >> I'm pretty sure. I mainly see it when playing youtube videos via mpv, > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3IidGmVLo4 was giving me trouble for > example. I know for sure that the hardware is capable of being much > louder since I'm able to play it at a good volume in Windows and Linux > (both Pulseaudio and ALSA, after I add a boost device to ALSA.)
