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I have just bought a B&O Essence to replace the CD/Radio I have with my Beolab 8000 speakers. I had to buy adaptors which simply convert the DIN plugs to the ethernet type connectors. Have managed to connect it all and it seems to work fine, playing via airdrop from my iphone. The problem I have is that the volume even at maximum is too quiet. It is in a large room and the CD player worked fine even for parties etc. Now it's too quiet even for me to listen to normally. Any ideas?
Thanks
When streaming, you wind up with two volume controls, the one in the Essence or Playmaker, and the one on the device streaming to the Essence or Playmaker. What is the volume set to on your PC or tablet or whatever you're using to stream from? There's a slider bar in things like Spotify and iTunes, maybe it's not set high enough?
The usual recomendation is to have the volume on the player (the airplay-ing iPad etc) set to max, and then control the volumen in the pre-amp - that is with the wheel on the 'knob'.
MM
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Correct about setting the sources systems to max and the essence to low so that you don't blow your speakers the first time they come on 🙁At one time the recommendation was not to stress the source and so to have the setting at MAX-1 ... which I still do although that is probably not relevant for Airplay / AirdropThe usual recomendation is to have the volume on the player (the airplay-ing iPad etc) set to max, and then control the volumen in the pre-amp - that is with the wheel on the 'knob'. MM There is a tv - and there is a BV.
Please do not set player volume to max. You leave no space for dynamic headroom. You will be more likely to get some distortion. Start with player volume at 60-75% and adjust from there.
Not true for a digital streaming source. The output is a digital signal, not an analog one that can have headroom. If you run the digital source at less than maximum volume, the volume reduction is done by shifting the most significant bit down, losing the least significant bits. It can be done well, bit that depends on the software, not all of it does OT well.
You can wind up with, say, instead of 16 bit resolution, 14, or 12, or lower depending on how much you reduce the volume in the digital source.
Please do not set player volume to max. You leave no space for dynamic headroom. You will be more likely to get some distortion. Start with player volume at 60-75% and adjust from there.
Assuming that you are using an analogue connection between devices:
The only reason I can think of why this might be true is if the output level of your source (or "player") can clip the input of the input (of the Essence).
So, unless you are coming in the line input, and your source can deliver more than 2 V rms, then this is not true. In order to maximise dynamic range, you should set the output level of your source to maximum and control the volume downstream.
Cheers
-geoff
Thanks everyone - I can verify that there is only one volume control - moving either the iphone or Essence control has the same effect, and I have tried at maximum. I'll try the settings suggestion and report back!
Thanks - yes you are correct only one single volume, as you move the Essence it changes the volume on the device, also yes can see software is quite out of date so am updating that.
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