Speaker volume

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Hi. Does anyone know if/how I can get higher volume from passive speakers
plugged into my laptop: all the control panel volume settings are high, but
the sound volume is still lower than I want. Maybe it's just not possible,
but help appreciated.
 
Hi. Does anyone know if/how I can get higher volume from passive speakers
plugged into my laptop: all the control panel volume settings are high, but
the sound volume is still lower than I want. Maybe it's just not possible,
but help appreciated.
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Have you plugged the speakers into the "amplified" speaker port or just the
line out port?
 
You might look into getting transformer powered speakers.
I had to do that with mine. It made a world of difference.
 
Hi. Does anyone know if/how I can get higher volume from passive speakers
plugged into my laptop: all the control panel volume settings are high, but
the sound volume is still lower than I want. Maybe it's just not possible,
but help appreciated.
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Earbuds or headphones.
 
Just the headphones socket (it's a laptop).
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The headphone jack can double for the speaker out also. You may have to check
to see if the laptop has a volume control (hardware) for this jack. If not
and you have "maxed" out the volume, the only way is to add an amplifier
device. There was a time that you can buy the simple amplifier device as a
separate unit but these seem to have disappeared and you can only get
"amplified" speakers, which include their own power (battery or power
transformer.)
 
Yves said:
The headphone jack can double for the speaker out also. You may have to check
to see if the laptop has a volume control (hardware) for this jack. If not
and you have "maxed" out the volume, the only way is to add an amplifier
device. There was a time that you can buy the simple amplifier device as a
separate unit but these seem to have disappeared and you can only get
"amplified" speakers, which include their own power (battery or power
transformer.)
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There are devices like the Soundblaster Extigy which give external
amplification and a host of other useful functions.
 
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