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Even with the volume all the way to "11", the volume on my Asus laptop is often not loud enough. How can I increase the volume?
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Even with the volume all the way to "11", the volume on my Asus laptop is often not loud enough. How can I increase the volume?
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Open Control Panel
Select Hardware and Sound > Manage Audio Devices > Speakers > Properties > Enhancements, check "Loudness Equalization"
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Tl;dr: delete Audio Wizard.
Some ASUS machines come with a software called Audio Wizard. (When you plug in a pair of headphones or a speaker, smart audio will pop up automatically, and in the bottom right corner you'll see the icon and something like "open audio wizard"). It allows you to mess around with the sound and has several settings such as "music" "movie" etc. DELETE THIS PROGRAM. After deleting this, the volume on my laptop became significantly louder. I think it was just dampening certain frequencies for effect.
I found out how to solve this problem on my own 2019 laptop and couldn't find it anywhere else on the internet, so although this was posted two years ago, I am leaving it here for posterity.
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I just bought an ASUS Notebook in July 2019. The sound was horrible!!! I could barely hear most of the youtube videos.
I stumbled on the realtek audio console when plugging in my headphone jack as a popup menu.
Later, I found the actual program or App, in the windows drop down menu.
Once you find it Realtek Audio Console, there will be two options for adjusting the settings for Microphone and Speakers.
I clicked on the settings tab for Speakers and found all of the Equalizer Settings for the speakers.
I started a youtube video in the background and went back to the Equalizer while the video was playing and adjusted the settings to my desired levels.
I increased the sound by close to double what it was when I got the computer!!! Huge difference!!!
Hope this helps.
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I actually have an Asus Vivobook myself and the sound is actually pretty low to be honest so it could be normal yet annoying.
But to be safe make sure all sound-related drivers are correctly installed and up-to-date. Sound may be low but it should definitely be audible.
If drivers are OK, check if some installed sound drivers offer you customization of some kind (different than windows parameters) where you could maybe increase the volume. Not possible on my Asus but it was an option on my previous laptop (MSI) so it's worth checking.
As mentioned in an answer, make sure that the Windows (or other OS) parameters on Sound/Speakers are set to maximum.
If at this point you still want to increase the volume it is possible to some extent but it will very likely result in some quality decrease. You can install third-party software designed to increase the volume such as Letasoft Sound Booster or DFX Audio Enhancer. You can surely find quite a lot of them online with a quick search, I don't have any personal recommendations.
For an incomplete workaround, lots of software differ in how they manage sound and volume and may allow for much "louder" sound delivery. For instance VLC Media Player will allow you to set the volume higher than Windows Media Player, same with MusicBee versus Itunes, etc. But this is OK for specific uses only of course.
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My Asus ROG laptop suddenly started having a similar audio problem: Audio such as Youtube or podcasts would start out loud, then after a few seconds would self adjust to a level about 20-30% lower (so even at full volume it was low).
After reading answers here, and trying some of them, what worked for me was:
Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound move to Communications tab, click the "Do Nothing" radio button (it was set to "Reduce the volume by 80%").
I'm on Windows 8.1 so this may be located elsewhere on Windows 10.
1There is that option on Windows 10. – CaldeiraG – 2019-10-31T07:58:13.143
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I bought Asus Vivobook in September 2019 and found the audio loudness to be very low. After some searching I found the culprit to Audio Wizard. But you need not uninstall it.
Rather open the advanced settings menu in the software and then open the equalizer settings. There simply increase the gain of the various frequencies and and the filter settings to one which suits you the best.I found that changing the peaking option to high shelving almost doubles the loudness ! Here is the screenshot of the settings I applied.
1If you are using media player classic, you may also tweak at the option > Internal filters > audio switcher : increase Boost, or adjust normalize, or both. || to crank up more of the any media file. – p._phidot_ – 2018-12-24T06:15:41.047
@p.phidot: Where does one first get to "Internal filters"? – B. Clay Shannon – 2018-12-24T12:45:28.193
The "media player classic" I've mention refers to is mpc-hc aka "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema".
– p._phidot_ – 2018-12-26T02:24:20.060@p.phidot: All down but nine; set 'em up on the other alley, pard. IOW, how would I get to this "mpc-hc"? – B. Clay Shannon – 2018-12-26T12:52:55.020
you may download it at its website : https://mpc-hc.org/ ( :
– p._phidot_ – 2018-12-28T02:00:32.550Now it's "Hardware and Sound" > "Manage Audio Devices" etc. – B. Clay Shannon – 2019-08-21T11:34:07.460
sorry, is that a new option.. or a new question .. /(^_^) – p._phidot_ – 2019-08-23T00:29:57.050
It's the new way of doing it. That's why it starts, "Now it's..." – B. Clay Shannon – 2019-08-26T22:40:58.523
1okay.. got it.. An updated answer. Great! – p._phidot_ – 2019-08-28T02:35:06.413