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Sound - It not loud enough
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:38 pm
by Oaklodge
OK, ANother attmept at asking this.
I have a T60P with a clean install of Vista.
I have installed all the required Lenovo drivers and everything seems to be working.
The only trouble is that the max volume is not very loud. II'm aware of the silver buttons and the icon in the system tray, everything is set to the maximum ... and still my X40 can pump out more volume ... surly there is something I can do to get more volume out of this otherwise great machine ??
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:00 pm
by nandaiyo
Use the heaphone jack, it's much louder than the speakers.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:04 pm
by Oaklodge
LOL - but I don't want to walk around with my laptop strapped to my back
Re: Sound - It not loud enough
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:13 pm
by pianowizard
Oaklodge wrote:I'm aware of the silver buttons and the icon in the system tray
Did you maximize both "Volume Control" and "Wave"?
But I agree that even with everything maximized, my T60's volume still isn't always enough.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:17 pm
by Oaklodge
Yes, every possible volume control is maxed out ... seems strange that the volume is not enough for such a big laptop.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:21 pm
by Eric Giles
I've been wondering if it was just my T60p with this problem-no matter what I do, most of the time there just isn't enough volume. And then there are times where whatever I am listening to was recorded at a loud level, which makes it plenty loud-but then the speakers and the surrounding plastic start buzzing and rattling.
Suffice it to say-the T60 has a very poor speaker/audio setup.
using Vista?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:50 pm
by thinky
I have noticed that the volume in Vista is substantially lower than that in Win XP, I havent looked in much detail here but I checked that the wave and other sliders and the hardware sound controls were at max. Has any one else observed this same behavior?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:47 pm
by hart22
Has anyone tried a method of playback that attempts to bypass virtually all software audio controls, and more relevantly here attempts to output sound at the maximum hardware-allowable volume? The best way to do this is to bypass the windows kernel mixer, which sometimes (rarely) is affected by audio bloatware as well as the main viewable volume sliders. This may not solve the problem, but it will at least help diagnose whether the low volume is a software or hardware issue.
Lately I'm always playing audio in this mode, as I'm testing computer-based implementations of bit-exact audio output, or at least near-bit exact.
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 1:13 am
by goldman60
Compared to my old T30 the T60 speakers are tiny and not very loud. I bought a set of little portable speakers to fix the problem.