[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Erhy wrote:

"Peter Larsen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

On one of my computers I have to set VLC player to play back
video-sound at 16% to prevent clipping, there seems to be added
digital '"we know best" gain somewhere in the sound card setup.

Peter and more - Thanks for your answers !

I use an onboard Audio Chip (SoundMAX ADI AD1986A) and
I don't find a menu for such adjustments.

So you have HP? - the soundmax stuff is in my opinion quite well sounding.

Perhaps someone knows software to influence
the arbitrary adjustments of gain.

Take a good look at "advanced" settings, however my impression is that it is
a property of sound card mixer-software to behave like that. With USB audio
in I did find a setting that added 10 dB gain to whatever came in from an
USB sound card in digital form on a recent "why is this USB grammophone
distorting" troubleshooting for my neighbor.

If there be somebody out there who can see the wisdom of why a digital audio
input should default to having 10 dB gain so sane audio is gravely clipped
please explain.

Erhy

Kind regards

Peter Larsen