low output from laptop

pforeman · 9th December 2011, 06:55 PM

when I connected my stereo (tubelab simple se with volume control)
to my laptop and playing windows media player. with the volume maxxed out on both the laptop and the amplifier I get peaks of about 92dB.
with my cd player I get peaks of 104 dB without the amp all the way up.

Do other external sound cards/USB DAC's have higher output?
Thanks,
Paul

dangus · 10th December 2011, 09:54 PM

Are you sure that all the volume controls on the laptop are maxed out? If you bring up the full volume control panel, there's (usually) sliders for the various sources (Wave, CD Digital, Microphone....) as well as a main volume control.

pforeman · 14th December 2011, 02:36 AM

my bad

9th December 2011, 06:55 PM	#1
pforeman diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2008	low output from laptop when I connected my stereo (tubelab simple se with volume control) to my laptop and playing windows media player. with the volume maxxed out on both the laptop and the amplifier I get peaks of about 92dB. with my cd player I get peaks of 104 dB without the amp all the way up. Do other external sound cards/USB DAC's have higher output? Thanks, Paul

14th December 2011, 02:36 AM	#3
pforeman diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2008	vol wheel WAS turned down-sorry my bad

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10th December 2011, 09:54 PM	#2
dangus diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vancouver Island	Are you sure that all the volume controls on the laptop are maxed out? If you bring up the full volume control panel, there's (usually) sliders for the various sources (Wave, CD Digital, Microphone....) as well as a main volume control.

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