Soundblaster - was Re:turn up volume on soundcard software

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:49:05PM -0500, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> On February 18, 2010 03:36:23 pm you wrote:
> 
> > True.  Of course on my sb live, going above about 80% causes clipping
> > (someone did a stupid design apparently).  That's rather unusual though.
> 
> Going off on a tangent, I have an Audigy 2 which is quite nice and has a 
> fantastic DAC on it and I have it connected to an old analog receiver that 
> acts as an amplifier. 
> 
> Under Windows XP, it's also very loud. Under everything else (including newer 
> Windowses), it's a lot quieter. I have to turn up the volume on the receiver 
> considerably to get the same output. Of course that introduces noise from the 
> receiver.
> 
> I don't suppose anyone here knows of a way to boost its output under Alsa to 
> something comparable to the Windows XP setting? I haven't been able to find 
> anything too useful myself.

Perhaps the audigy has the same clipping issue and crative did something
about it by making the drivers use a sane limit. :)

Or maybe it's just one of the dozens of sliders that is set wrong.
The emu chips have so many options after all.

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Len Sorensen
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