Quick Vista SOund Volume question

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Can anyone using Vista quickly tell me what the default Master volume level is? I set mine to 100 instantly after install and forgot the default - I "think" it was 80 but not sure.

I'm doing some volume levelling tests after reading an article today about cd mastering companies upsampling cd volume of music muffling out their original instruments with excess noise and so on and so forth.

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meh was worth trying out at least :p - Found I actually get more dynamic sound at 100 though :p
 
Listen, I output to my av receiver and control all output through that.


I read an article on DIGG (I forgot if it was DIGG or somewhere else) where someone did some tests, this test was in iTunes and they found the best volume level to have was around 80ish out of 100 or the "default" "best sound" option often found on certain software, any higher and some music distorts or loses fidlity.

I wanted to test this out in Windows and I remember by default Vista does not set master output to 100 but instead something a bit smaller which tied in with the article.

This is what I wanted to test...which I now have done and found to be inconclusive.

See it's easier just to type my quick original question and get a quick answer than to have to sit there and type loads out just to explain my intentions...
 
hahaha sorry you don't have a clue. You need to learn about voltage output from soundcard, amplifier sensivity, and amplifier gain. Plus transmission protocol (analogue or digital) Also measuring when the signal starts to clip amplifier input circuit (or the adc if it's a av amplifier with adc prior to bass managment/processing)
 
I don't need to learn anything :rolleyes: I'm much more happier experimenting and being happy with an end result.
 
mrk said:
I don't need to learn anything :rolleyes: I'm much more happier experimenting and being happy with an end result.
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Clueless. I hope your test CD is of known gain, otherwise it'll just screw up your "experimentation" and also use albums with known high gain/distortion. Still that doesn't mean a thing, if your analogue section is under (or over the distortion levels) and what your pre-amp gain and poweramp input sensivity is too.

Level in Windows is totally irrelevent.
 
squiffy said:
Level in Windows is totally irrelevent.
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Which is why it sounds different at 66/80 and 100 in Windows Volume Mixer on the speakers ...yup totally irrelevent there. I think you missed the part where I said after trying it out 100 sounds the best with most (playing various FLAC tracks from Stevie Wonder/Jill Scott/Jack Johnson etc)
 
Is your music replaygained? If not it'll screw your "tests" up. At what point (voltage) does your amp start to clip from the signal from the PC?

Oops sorry you can't measure it. My point being it'll sound different, but you have no way of exactly knowing where the clipping point is. You need one of these

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What you're doing is "guesswork" at best, with no known variables
 
You can call it guess work but I'd rather have my ears actually enjoy what I'm listening to than be anal about it with ^that sort of routine which was the whole point of my thread (now resolved long ago) thanks.

Never once in my posts did I want an accurate measure, all I wanted to do was to test something out quickly and painlessly which I have done but have had to put up with your gufff in the process mate.
 
So in other words you have no idea on mixing, or audio gear, or the electronics in audio components work together. But that's ok, as according to you "80 in windows is good" lol totally clueless.
 
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