Videos quiet on AKG 712 despite being amped...

[aoaaron]

Hey i have a bit of a weird issue.

My AKG 712s connected to my Q1 mark ii fiio amp on my MacBook Pro works flawllessly. Everything is good volume from videos to games to music.

On my windows PC however despite installing the drivers properly, videos seem a lot quieter through MPC class or Kodi.

Any solutions for this?

I think games are at an acceptable value at full volume on my amp, the music is way too loud at max volume.

It just seems to be films and tv shows and I can't seem to pinpoint a reason. I thought lack of power coming from the amp to begin with but then I realized films and tv shows are perfectly loud on my iPad and MacBook Pro using it.

I'm guessing its some underlying software BS with windows? I know it does mess with the volume of my home theatre speakers to the extent i just added +8db on my avr.

 

[aoaaron]

I think Mac OSX inherently has some magic juice that apple has applied to maintain volume levels of media through video players at the expensive of a little dynamic range.


I did trial a few different software players.. all had slightly different volumes lol. But it does make sense that a 5.1 recorded soundtrack designed to be listened to at 0db will sound different to a song meant to be played on an iphone.