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    Sony FW sound issues

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by rpeders3, Sep 13, 2008.

  1. rpeders3

    rpeders3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    For those who have the Sony FW have you noticed that when sound is maxed out that the sound is still rather low? I have heard this was an issue with this model. I just want to confirm that my new computer is not defective. Thanks!
     
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    Okay, this is strange. If I play an audio CD or stream sound on youtube, etc. the sound is great. If I play a DVD or blueray the sound is low even on max. This sounds like a driver issue to me... what do you think?
     
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    Mr Banana Pants Notebook Guru

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    i've noticed this on the models in the major retail stores
    when playing video the volume is very low at the max, but when playing music the sound is so much louder
     
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    When watching Blu-Ray and DVDs on the FW i noticed the sound was kinda low even at max. This was especially annoying as I was trying to watch a movie on a plane trip and even my noise canceling headphones didn't help that much. The solution? I now use Cyberlink PowerDVD which has a "noisy environment" setting that ups the volume considerably. I couldn't find a similar function in the built in Window DVD (or it was greyed out, i can't remember)
     
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    Media Player Classic has a similar function. Go to View->Options->Internal Filters->Audio Switcher, check Normalize, increase the Boost bar and click Apply...
     
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    I installed PowerDVD and that solved the problem. I'm surprised Sony didn't include a better Blu-Ray player than what they did.
     
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