Dv6700 Sound.

Hi All, I have a Hp 6700 and the speakers are really not too loud, they are loud, but in a busy room, or something, not too loud. Is there anyway to make them louder? Let it be for 3rd party software, or updates to the sound card? I have everything up max in the sound control. Thanks.

HP6704
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 1.9GHz
160GB 5400RPM HD
2048MB ram
Windows Vista Premium SP1
128MB NVIDA GeForce
15.4" BrightView
Altec Lansing Speakers

 

Have you tried tweaking advanced sound settings in Vista?

If the sound comming from the speakers is starting to distort then its too loud and at its limit.

 

Thanks for the reply, I have everything in side of the sound maxed out. IT is no where near distortion, sounds like it could go twice as loud before distortion.

 

Have you tried going into the HP driver support page and updating your sound drivers?

 

I had the same problem with certain DVD's and HD mkv videos. Where you will normally come across lower audio levels is generally those with AC3 sound. Go to search in windows and type ac3config it might be called ac3 toolbox etc.. Make sure you do that after you close your video/audio. In the ac3config just move the master gain from zero up to 20db. Going up to 16db did the trick for me.. made it tons better. Also, in some players you will see a audio booster. HP's quickplay has a nice booster. I think media player classic also has one. But not positive.. Pretty sure MP11 does not in vista. But the AC3config helped me bunches for my videos. For whatever reason, the contrast/colors look nicer on WMP11 on my HD stuff so it was nice being able to boost the audio to acceptable levels so I could use MP11.

If you don't have the ac3 filter you may need to search and download that as well.

I'm still looking for a audio boost solution for some of my winamp streaming files and certain mp3's that are too low. Ultimately, one may have to connect a pair of external speakers to have adequate audio.

 

I think that was the problem. I downloaded and installed the new drivers for sound for the support page, now the speakers are much louder, with out distortion. But if i go to the sound properties and click Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221 then click properties, then speaker properties window comes up, then i click properties again in that window, then i click driver, and it says i still have the driver from 3/4/2008, driver version 4.36.7.60. Thanks!