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problem - Xonar ST and JVC HARX700 - VERY quiet!

post #1 of 23
8/19/11 at 7:59pm
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Hi Can someone please provide some guidance on how to setup the xonar ST ?
 
Its all functional but the headphones are quiet as. I plugged into the Headphone out jack and downloaded new drivers
 
I have checked and unchecked SVN (Smart Volume) and still no difference
 
However, its fine when connected via SPDIF to my Z5500
 
EDIT: When I plug my headphones into my Z5500 - it's also quiet as well.
 
I hope it's not the amp or jack that's fault or blown up, is there any way i can check this up ?
 
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Edited by chiggah - 8/19/11 at 8:15pm
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post #2 of 23
8/19/11 at 10:16pm

 

turn down the volume,  Hit the HF button near the volume knob and deslect the syn option.   See if that does it for you.

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post #3 of 23
8/19/11 at 10:21pm
Also what player are you using? The volume on the player, say foobar2000 or Media Center, should be at 100%.
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post #4 of 23
8/19/11 at 10:25pm


 

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Originally Posted by rroseperry View Post

Also what player are you using? The volume on the player, say foobar2000 or Media Center, should be at 100%.


if he has the headphones plugged into the headphone jack that will certainty cause him to go deaf and blow up his headphones lol.  

 

 

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post #5 of 23
8/19/11 at 10:36pm
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Originally Posted by RiceEatin2010GT View Post


 



if he has the headphones plugged into the headphone jack that will certainty cause him to go deaf and blow up his headphones lol.  

 

 


Yeah, if he has the Xonar turned up too. But turn the Xonar down to 0, the player up to 100%, then modify the volume with the Xonar. I've rarely gone past 40% for most of my phones that way and IIRC, this is the best way to get non-distorted output. There's a thread on setting up the Xonar somewhere on Headfi.
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post #6 of 23
8/19/11 at 10:57pm

yea woops i forgot about that. Im using ASIO so im bypassing the windows volume.
 

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Originally Posted by rroseperry View Post



Yeah, if he has the Xonar turned up too. But turn the Xonar down to 0, the player up to 100%, then modify the volume with the Xonar. I've rarely gone past 40% for most of my phones that way and IIRC, this is the best way to get non-distorted output. There's a thread on setting up the Xonar somewhere on Headfi.
 


 

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post #7 of 23
8/19/11 at 10:58pm
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Originally Posted by RiceEatin2010GT View Post

yea woops i forgot about that. Im using ASIO so im bypassing the windows volume.
 



 


I'm using foobar2000 myself and too low volume has never been an issue.
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post #8 of 23
8/19/11 at 11:26pm
if you are using optical or coax to conenct to your z5500's you need to use digital passthrough as your default device. that way the xonar doesnt touch anything and lets z5500's decode everything for you. If you are connecting to z5500's through direct, however, you need to do something else that i am not familiar with because i never did that with my z5500's and my laptop :\
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post #9 of 23
8/19/11 at 11:50pm
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yeah the SPDIF digital to Z5500 works fine

 

But headphones are still super soft via the headphone jack

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post #10 of 23
8/20/11 at 12:07am
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Formatted a second boot OS and it's still soft sound from headphones

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post #11 of 23
8/20/11 at 12:18am
are headphones definately plugged in all the way? they are working fine with other stuff?

also, did you accidentally turn on "night mode" or something with the logitechs? go through those settings and make sure its all good. You should be at about 50% on the logitechs and be getting rather loud sound i think. unless those headphones are hard to drive or something.
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post #12 of 23
8/20/11 at 12:20am
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The problem isnt with the logitech

 

I am plugging in all the way into the xonar ST's headphone jack - triple checked that

 

Could it be a faulty headphone amp causing low sound to the headphone?


Edited by chiggah - 8/20/11 at 12:21am
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post #13 of 23
8/20/11 at 12:25am

just trying to go through some of the basics here so forgive me if you did this.  Is your onboard sound disabled and also what kind of headphones are you running exactly?

 

 

edit- nevermind i see your headphones


Edited by RiceEatin2010GT - 8/20/11 at 12:27am
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post #14 of 23
8/20/11 at 12:30am
plug into the z5500's headphone jack instead. the sound card is probably not meant to handle audio out of both outputs at once.
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post #15 of 23
8/20/11 at 12:31am
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Running JVC HARX-700 which came with the 6.3mm adapter to fit into the ST's headphone jack

 

Yeah I have disabled onboard sound in BIOS

 

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Originally Posted by RiceEatin2010GT View Post

just trying to go through some of the basics here so forgive me if you did this.  Is your onboard sound disabled and also what kind of headphones are you running exactly?

 

 

edit- nevermind i see your headphones



 

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