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Yeah.... distorting the music... nice.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
ZrednaZ, make sure your 'Wave' output (and the likes) are also set high. What you changed might be just the 'master volume', not the individual volumes of the devices (or vice versa)...

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also check:

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Exactly what I wanted to say....

Although the master volume is set to 50%, the individual device sounds are also set to 50%, making the actual sound only 25%.....

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Originally posted by Voldemort
Yeah.... distorting the music... nice.

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Nope, he is pretty much eliminating the bass that most laptops cant support.

That won't make music any louder

It will seem louder, you're ears are adjusted to hearing higher pitched frequencies more easily than lower pitched frequencies

Windows mixer was already turned up - including every individual program (they follow the master volume bar up to max unless you manually turn them down).

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Originally posted by Voldemort
That won't make music any louder

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It will, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness

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Loudness, a subjective measure, is often confused with objective measures of sound intensity such as decibels.

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I meant that it won't increase sound intensity, which is what ZrednaZ wants.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Loudness, a subjective measure, is often confused with objective measures of sound intensity such as decibels.

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I meant that it won't increase sound intensity, which is what ZrednaZ wants.

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In absolute measures, with perfect speakers etc, you're right. On the other hand, given the resonance of the speaker and the ear, cutting the bass allows more energy to move in the more efficient part of the spectrum. As an example, consider earphones. If you turn the volume right up and move away, you only hear the cymbals and other high-frequency sounds. They are actually a lot better at creating high frequency sound, although stuck in your ear there is no where for the low sounds to go, which makes up for that.

The other important thing is that we actually hear the time-derivative of the speaker movement. For a speaker moving at a low frequency to displace the same amount of air per second as one at a higher frequency, it will need to move further. Considering speakers can only move a certain distance from center before they distort [just as important, they can only move a certain distance before saturating their power supply], speakers are usually more efficient at higher frequencies.

Laptop speakers are usually about 5cm in diameter, which means they have good midrange output. Rolling off the low frequencies allows the midrange to get closer to saturation. Yes, you lose quality, but the difference in perceived volume can be quite significant [easily +10db, not counting inner ear resonance which is more pronounced in the midrange].

While a bit of theory is always nice, do you guys have any concrete suggestions to downloadable equalizers? I guess it all boils down to this: Basically I need something like Winamp's equalizer

which has the "Preamp" bar that will actually make most any audio source LOUD when cranked up (and I frankly don't care about how that's achieved) Only difference is that it needs to be able to affect ALL sound output on the puter.
This is a terribly common laptop problem, I'm surprised the web isn't oversaturated with solutions to this...