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How to increase(amplify) the volume of my speakers on my laptop ?
I use Vista Home Premium on my laptop.
I like to watch movies with friends on my laptop when I travel ( in a hotel room for example). The power of the built-in speakers are generally not satisfactory (even at the maximum level) and therefore I always carry external speakers with me to boost the sound. Is there any way ( or software ) to boost the volume ? ( so that I do not have to carry external speakers )
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I think you are pretty much screwed when it comes to the laptop speakers. I have never been able to get it boosted any louder. Plus, even if you were able to send more juice to the speakers they would soon distort.
I think concentrating on the best external speaker solution would be best. USB powered/small might be waht you need.
I like the fist one because of how adaptable it is plus it's 2.1 - it actually has a subwoofer. USB port too.
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Sony SRST10PC-WH Portable Speaker System
In general, no, after you have resorted to all software options, the only means left is hardware amplification, which naturaly comes in the form of, speakers.
Now, there are ways of pre-amping your input through software via an equilizer using DSP. Since i assume you're using media center, there isn't a way to do this, however if you use an application like winamp or other multiformat media player, under the equilizer settings you can set an all band pre-gain which in winamp you can set up to 12dB, which is about 4x as loud as normal. From there, you can amplify each band by another 12dB, giving you 24dB or about 8x as loud as normal, however by now you've easily surpassed the power abilities of your speakers and they will break or not play, or the distortion will be immense.
Hi alihakanersoy,
I had the same problem, running Vista Home Premium, on a Lenovo N3000 laptop. The sound volume was next to zero.
I found a setting that quickly fixed the problem. First, I selected "Sound" properties in the Control Panel. Then I highlighted my "Realtek High Definition Audio" and "properties." This brought up "Speaker properties," and I selected "Enhancements."
Finally, I selected "Loudness equalizationr" and "immediate mode."
Voila - problem solved, and I had about twice the volume.
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Speaker Properties
You said that you watch movies when you travel, and a large part of the movies have AC3 sound.
Some audio codecs also come with their own gain controls. One such codec is AC3Filter. AC3Filter has a config tool that allows you to increase the gain for any audio it handles. You can also use AC3Filter's config tool to apply dynamic range control which will normalize the audio so the quiet parts are louder and the loud parts are quieter so you should be able to hear everything better on a laptop with wimpy speakers. These options vary depending on the codec; some have volume gain options and others do not.
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Increase gain on AC3 codec
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by: ridPosted on 2007-12-17 at 11:15:39ID: 20487046
Most laptop internal speakers are not that good, actually... possibly there's a way to make them make a racket, but if you want any kind of sound quality, external speakers are recommended.
Assuming, of course, you have set all volume controls and mixer controls to "Max" and checked that the playback software hasn't got a too low sound playback setting, if applicable.
/RID