SB Live! volume is weak

[CompuDocs]

I have a small problem with my SBLive. It seems I have to keep my volume controls almost all the way up on the mixer, and on the speakers to get so-so volume. I haven't had this problem with other SB's just the Live!.
My system:

ASUS K7V
Athlon 750
256 RAM
VooDoo 5 5500
Altec Lansing ADA880 Sub-woofer & 4 speakers

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Charlie


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"Oh Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed for the umpteenth time.

[NeuromancerIV]

Is this occuring in all apps or games or one in particular? I'd check another set of speakers, which output jack you're plugged into, but sounds like possibly a bad card..We've had several Live!5.1 card sent back with several issues relating to sound quality, static in the speaker output etc...

[captpackrat]

Make sure you have the speakers plugged into the right jacks. (I've seen this before. Most common is getting the front & rear speakers mixed up. It'll work, but the volume will be funky)

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`akbar Press

If you're furry and you know it, hug the mouse!

[dumb blonde]

i have the same problem had the card for a year never worked right. what a did was:
1)go to radio shack buy a adapter to hook up rca cables to computer and rca cables
2)hook to aux in port on back of house radio
works fine. or go buy a sound blaster 16
sound blaster live cards use about 30watts
and eat resouces big time in fact i have stopped selling them they caused to many problems

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what will go wrong today???? never mind going back to bed

[cyberhh]

it was my understanding the the SB Live series was not amplified. This could explain your problem (if I am correct).

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Death is lighter than a feather - duty heavier than a mountian.

[dumb blonde]

never that of that but you could be right. that would explain having to hook it up to my radio. but hay i'm not complaining it sounds good on surround sound

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what will go wrong today???? never mind going back to bed

[CompuDocs]

Thanks for the replies.
Cyber had it. I checked CL's site and guess what. Not one of the Live! cards are amplified.

Any good audio card suggestions?

Charlie




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"Oh Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed for the umpteenth time.

[dumb blonde]

most sound cards it seems are not amp.the speakers are. fyi

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what will go wrong today???? never mind going back to bed

[Damned Angel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CompuDocs:
Thanks for the replies.
Cyber had it. I checked CL's site and guess what. Not one of the Live! cards are amplified.

Any good audio card suggestions?

Charlie




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keep the card, go buy a fps1000 or 2000 speaker set, they are really cheap now, and they will sound great.



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If it aint broke......use a bigger hammer

[cyberhh]

I ran my non-amplified sound card through my Yamaha Natural sound suround sound and Infinity speakers and the sound is incridible - only - well the windows ding.wav is flat out disturbing (and I'm too lazy to disable it).

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Death is lighter than a feather - duty heavier than a mountian.

[cyberhh]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CompuDocs:
Thanks for the replies.
Cyber had it. I checked CL's site and guess what. Not one of the Live! cards are amplified.

Any good audio card suggestions?

Charlie




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Sorry i didn't keep reading. If the SBLive card is not causing problems KEEP IT! just spend about $100 (the cost of a good replacement card) and keep the true sound blaster hooked to a nice set of cambridge SoundWorks speakers and rock out to some crystal clear sound.

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Death is lighter than a feather - duty heavier than a mountian.