I was wondering seeing as there are some with driver modding skills around here could tell me if it's possible to change the seemingly hard-coded volume level in Realtek drivers.
I have a Gigabyte board with an ALC1150 and no matter which driver I try the audio volume is so loud I have to turn Windows global volume to 10% otherwise it hurts my ears (I'm using headphones).
I'm not an expert but it's like Realtek are over amplifying the stereo output ?, I've tried enabling the loudness equalization in Realtek control panel & this only partially fixes it for music or Youtube but system audio sounds are still often ear piercingly loud. If I change the audio output to the GPU and plug headphones into monitor it works largely okay volume is around 70-80% level and comfortable though it doesn't sound as good.
Anyone any ideas on this ?
Thanks.
[My backup plan is to get a spdif/optical to analogue DAC, and use the optical out on the Realtek and see if that is any better or look at a sound card]
I have a Gigabyte board with an ALC1150 and no matter which driver I try the audio volume is so loud I have to turn Windows global volume to 10% otherwise it hurts my ears (I'm using headphones).
I'm not an expert but it's like Realtek are over amplifying the stereo output ?, I've tried enabling the loudness equalization in Realtek control panel & this only partially fixes it for music or Youtube but system audio sounds are still often ear piercingly loud. If I change the audio output to the GPU and plug headphones into monitor it works largely okay volume is around 70-80% level and comfortable though it doesn't sound as good.
Anyone any ideas on this ?
Thanks.
[My backup plan is to get a spdif/optical to analogue DAC, and use the optical out on the Realtek and see if that is any better or look at a sound card]