solved! Headphone volume too loud

[Isileth]

I have a pair of JVC HA-RX700 headphones and I am using on board audio, the headphones do not include their own volume control. Despite having the device volume set to its lowest both on the windows volume mixer and in the Realtek Audio Console the volume of most content is still too loud for me to comfortably listen to. Even for the quietest content I cant raise it higher than 10/100.

 

Is there any other volume control or settings I can change that would bring it down to more reasonable levels?

[ShearMe]

4 hours ago, Isileth said:

I have a pair of JVC HA-RX700 headphones and I am using on board audio, the headphones do not include their own volume control. Despite having the device volume set to its lowest both on the windows volume mixer and in the Realtek Audio Console the volume of most content is still too loud for me to comfortably listen to. Even for the quietest content I cant raise it higher than 10/100.

 

Is there any other volume control or settings I can change that would bring it down to more reasonable levels?

You can lower the volume of individual programs in the Windows volume mixer.

[Isileth]

30 minutes ago, ShearMe said:

You can lower the volume of individual programs in the Windows volume mixer.

The volume level of the applications is linked with my device volume and is also at the lowest possible setting.

[ShearMe]

52 minutes ago, Isileth said:

The volume level of the applications is linked with my device volume and is also at the lowest possible setting.

Hmm, maybe you could apply a good amount of attenuation with an equalizer program? https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/

[AAJoe]

Using the above link from @ShearMe you can set a pre-amp to a negative value, which will give you the wiggle room you need to set it to reasonable volumes. It won't impact quality based on a similar issue we had with our old USB sound card.

[Isileth]

Little late to respond but wanted to leave this here in case anyone else is having this problem and couldn't find a solution.

 

The above solution using Equalizer APO works perfectly! Initially it had no effect but after changing the install to SFX/MFX in the config and restarting I was able to get it working. I cleared out all the settings but the preamp in the editor. I set it to -20db which is the max it would allow, that helped a little but it also lets you add another preamp and do the exact same thing to make it even quieter, so right now im running at -30db which lets me put the volume up comfortably to the 30-50 range which gives me a lot more flexibility with volumes.

 

Thanks for the recommendation! 

[antoo-_-]

On 11/02/2020 at 1:17 PM, Isileth said:

I have a pair of JVC HA-RX700 headphones and I am using on board audio, the headphones do not include their own volume control. Despite having the device volume set to its lowest both on the windows volume mixer and in the Realtek Audio Console the volume of most content is still too loud for me to comfortably listen to. Even for the quietest content I cant raise it higher than 10/100.

 

Is there any other volume control or settings I can change that would bring it down to more reasonable levels?

I'm one year late to this, i just figured that if you open the volume mixer and choose on headphones, you can click the unselected JVC option. Foe exanple mine was set on headphones and i switched to headset and i could lower the volume as it was set on 20 by default and that's exactly the reason the soynd was too loud. Hope i was of some help