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| drventure:
Anyone else here experience that problem? When watching any show through cable (I'm on time warner), the volume on my amp is set at, say, -30db. When I switch to the Wii, however, it's blaringly loud and I have to dial the amp down to, say -60db. I've dug through my cable box settings and the wii settings and neither seem to have any volume adjustment. The cable supports HDMI out. The wii doesn't, but I picked up an adapter that converts the wii's funky video.audio output to hdmi. Could that be the culprit? I tried the standard wii video/audio cable and it seemed slightly better, but i get nasty video noise on the screen, so I'd rather not use it. Probably a bad cable (the wii was a used unit off CL). Just wondering if that was a common issue? |
| keilmillerjr:
My wii is considerably louder than my cable box, my appletv is considerably quieter than my cable box... Whadadodo? Just use your tv's volume controls. |
| drventure:
Well, yeah, there's always that. I just wanted to verify that what I was seeing was relatively normal. In the end, once I have my high end receiver back, it has separate vol levels for each input, so that would completely resolve the issue. |
| hypernova:
The Wii's audio output is definitely higher than all other electronics. Watching TV, my volume is set at a bar of around 25-35. My laptop's output is quite low, forcing me to up the TV's volume up to 50 or so. The 360 is set at 19-20, though I was playing Darksiders II a few weeks ago, and it seemed like a louder game than others, so I had to dial it back to about 17-18. The Wii however, can't be tolerated any higher than 13...and I'm always a big lover of video game music. When letting my kids play, I end up lowering it even more to about 10. |
| lilshawn:
when it comes to unbalanced analog in/outputs, nothing is standard. it's supposed to be 1.0 volt RMS p-p for standard non-professional type consumer equipment...but most cheapy consumer stuff puts out 0.894 as the "standard" to reduce the chance of clipping the signal and distorting... or may even go over 1 volt RMS since they figure people don't care about it being too loud, only too quiet. nobody seems to really adhere to the standard. --- Quote ---I picked up an adapter that converts the wii's funky video.audio output to hdmi. --- End quote --- i'd suspect the converter though. HDMI audio is all digital... the convertor has to convert that analog signal to digital. (likely PCM) perhaps this box can be hacked on the input side to fix the audio issue. |
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