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    Z13 Low Sound

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by katanka, Nov 13, 2010.

  1. katanka

    katanka Newbie

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    Hello all, is there any way to increase the volumen of z13?.
    I´ve got another Vaio (SZ71WN/C) and volumen of sound is perfect.
    Thanks in advanced.
    P.S Excuse me for my bad english (I´m spanish)
     
    katanka, Nov 13, 2010
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  2. infzy

    infzy Notebook Geek

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    To increase the volume? I think my Z13 has pretty loud speakers actually.... what's unfortunate is they sound like garbage, it's all high frequencies so it's undesirable to listen to stuff from them. Furthermore, the audio jack on the laptop is in a terribly inconvenient spot, so hooking the laptop up to speakers kind of sucks too. :eek:
     
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  3. Blahman

    Blahman Notebook Consultant

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    If you want to hook up to a real speaker set, either use HDMI to a receiver (I haven't gotten my NVIDIA HDMI Audio driver to work yet though for some reason), or a USB sound card like the ASUS Xonar U1 which has optical out and 5.1 support.

    I have found mine to be plenty loud as well, but as infzy mentioned it's a pretty tinny sound (no distortion on mine though).
     
    Blahman, Nov 13, 2010
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  4. 18000rpm

    18000rpm Notebook Consultant

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    My Z11 is really soft too, if there's any ambient noise at all I can barely hear my speakers even at full volume. My previous SZ was much louder.

    Don't think there's much you can do about it other than using earphones.
     
    18000rpm, Nov 14, 2010
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  5. Jim_Kirk

    Jim_Kirk Newbie

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    I tried the Logitech N700 Lapdesk, see it here. Uses a simple USB connection [no software required already built into Win 7]. Sounds goes way up in volume and clarity. Although the sound was quite good the N700 was too large for me and I ended up with just a simple Logitech lapdesk, N315.
     
    Jim_Kirk, Nov 14, 2010
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    ttran88 Notebook Consultant

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    you can make some adjustments going to sound properties and adjusting from there.
     
    ttran88, Nov 14, 2010
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  7. katanka

    katanka Newbie

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    I adjusted them, and it´s the same.
    Best regards
     
    katanka, Nov 15, 2010
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    edpowers Notebook Geek

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    My Z13 is very soft as well. For example, my Z13 at 50% is about the same volume level as my Toshiba R705 at 5-10% and my SZ680 at 20%.
     
    edpowers, Nov 15, 2010
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  9. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Are you playing movies? Try VLCPlayer...it lets you crank the sound MUCH higher. Speakers in Z are crappy.
     
    beaups, Nov 15, 2010
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