x60 volume

Alright I absolutely love my new x60. My only negative which doesn't matter much is the volume is a little low with headphone. Never mind without headphones I really can't hear much at all.

But I use headphones whenever I'm watching a movie or listening to music anyways...

So anyone know if there is a way to increase the volume on this baby?

 

Perhaps not the answer you were looking for but there are headphone-amplifiers that will do just that.

It do depend alot on what headphones you have. Some are harder to 'drive' than others. I use Koss Porta Pro and they are quite easy to 'drive' so I seldom have any problem with them on the x60. However I did recently watch a movie that apparently had a low volume since I had to max the volume to hear what they said.
But when listening to music it can go louder than I'd ever want

Three possible solutions that I know of, but all is far from ideal.
* Switch headphones for ones more easily 'driven'
* Headphone amplifier
* External soundcard perhaps ? - I don't know but I suppose that they could boost the volume. Although many are not that portable - but they would probably sound much better than the internal that the x60 has.

All options listed are quite expensive too, switching headphones is perhaps the cheapest if you go for cheap headphones (like porta pro) but then again you might not be able to boost the volume up in movies anyway so :|

Hope someone comes with a better solution but I have no idea what that would be.

 

Well the reason I need it loader is because I work in a loud place. Sure the volumes fine in a normal situation. But its kind of load where I work.

I have 2 sets of headphones. One is in ear buds that certainly don't take a lot to drive..

I don't know I'm going to take a look at some sound cards I think

 

Sorry about this thread. I'm using ubuntu and had to do the simplist little thing to get the volume working.

Wow I'm retarted this thing is far more loud then ever needed. Thank god I figuered that one out.

 

Noise-cancelling headphones or the ear plugs that are designed to fit in your ear to form a noise tight seal would be better than turning up the volume to compensate for a noisy environment. I sound like a health advert, LOL.

 

I must be as retarded as you (or even more, since I couldn't solve it): I have the same problem with Ubuntu and the X60s. The volume is very low.

I checked all volume indicators (including alsamixer and sound preferences): everything is to the max but the volume is still low.

How did you solve it?

P.S.
I eventually solved it by installing Audacity. After having raised the volume from Audacity the sound volume became loud also at system level. Now maximum volume is really pleasantly loud. I suspect that Audacity touched something that is also possible to configure manually, but I don't know what. How did you solve it?


P.P.S.
Today, for no apparent reason, the volume went back to very low and the Audacity trick did not work. I played a bit with the mute and the volume buttons of the X60s to no avail. Then I turned the master volume on Ubuntu fully down and fully up and the sound came back to its former "loud" self.
I can't elaborate more or test further because tonight I switched back to my T42 (the X60s was a test machine), but I hope it helps.

I'd like to add that I never had such problems on the T42. I suspect there is some discrepancy between the Ubuntu master volume and the X60s volume buttons (up, down and mute) but as mentioned I don't have the X60s anymore to test further.