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post #21 of 27
5/8/05 at 7:29pm
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Originally Posted by Blair
Well after a month of use it seems the realtek has done... something to correct itself. My speaker volume is much louder. It seems keeping it on "powerfull" setting under the other effects have allowed for it to kick into a higher volume - not that it was bad anyway! "Powerful" improves the volume as it rases all the levels and also adds bass to the volume.
As long as the audio signal doesn't become saturated by these aggresive equalizer settings...
Unfortunatelly, no software solution can overcome this electrical limitation: poor amplification level.
(Try listening through a pair of good headphones)

Regarding the "bass" thing:
You made me laugh, these tiny speakers are unable to reproduce low frequencies (a.k.a bass). Try to raise the 100 and 200 Hz bars to their maximum - you'll only get some distorsions out of them speakers (you'll have to enable the Equalizer first - middle button)

Cheers,
_EnF_
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post #22 of 27
5/9/05 at 4:55pm
lol - well you can buy a USB Sub-Woofer for bass that sits beside ur laptop for £10-20 if your really annoyed :P
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post #23 of 27
5/11/05 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by JFvergara
It's disgustingly low in SPDIF. I'm considering buy an Echo Indigo or the Create Sound Blaster


SPDIF output is a series of bytes. What volume are we talking about here?
I have a Creative digital receiver (DD 5.1, DTS) and I'm pretty happy with the SPDIF output (for both DVDs and music).

The integrated speakers volume as well as the headphone volume is acceptable in my opinion. It could be louder (I agree) but I wouldn't say is low.

The integrated microphone is bad. Without the "mic boost" is useless.
With the "mic boost" enabled the recording volume is still low and the background noise is terrible (but I think that's not the mic fault).
I'm talking about the SPDIF output on my Acer travelmate 8100's headphone jack that's being powered by Intel HD Audio. Or do I have to be any more specific before you stop trying to teach me something I already know?
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post #24 of 27
5/13/05 at 4:21pm
I will check tonight on my system to see if the volume is low with the headphones...


Just a quick note tho, if you can hear "music" or sound from the jack, then it's not SPDIF since headphones are analog. If you plugged your headphones in a real SPDIF jack, all you'd hear is a screeching sound since SPDIF is a "digital" signal (i.e. it needs to be decoded by a DSP chip, such as in your home theater system).
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post #25 of 27
5/13/05 at 7:50pm
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Originally Posted by XanderCDN
I will check tonight on my system to see if the volume is low with the headphones...


Just a quick note tho, if you can hear "music" or sound from the jack, then it's not SPDIF since headphones are analog. If you plugged your headphones in a real SPDIF jack, all you'd hear is a screeching sound since SPDIF is a "digital" signal (i.e. it needs to be decoded by a DSP chip, such as in your home theater system).
Not all headphones are analog.
There are Dolby Digital headphones out there on the market.
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post #26 of 27
5/13/05 at 11:23pm
BTW, new drivers came out today, May 13th for the TM8100's sound card on realtek.com.tw "r120".
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post #27 of 27
5/17/05 at 12:36am
Yeah the 8100 sound output level is completely and utterly pathetic. I hook it up to my stereo at home but when traveling its just awful. I'm thinking of buying the Creative Audigy 2 ZS notebook that is a PCMCIA sound card with headphone and SPDIF outputs, but having to shell out another $100 to get decent sound is unacceptable imo.

The headphone jack being positioned in the front of the keyboard also draws my ire. In fact, plug location in general is poor.

Xander:

Do you have a link for the new driver? And does anyone know if this new driver makes a lick of difference?
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