Volume output soooooooo much louder in windows than os x....

[daneoni]

I just installed iTunes on my windows partition and decided to play a song. I jumped immediately, the thing is waaay louder than i would get on the mac side. I've had to reduce the volume to almost zero and its still pretty loud, whilst on the mac side i have to max out the volume before i can get decent outputs.

Why is this and is there a fix?

 

[thebeephaha]

I just installed iTunes on my windows partition and decided to play a song. I jumped immediately, the thing is waaay louder than i would get on the mac side. I've had to reduce the volume to almost zero and its still pretty loud, whilst on the mac side i have to max out the volume before i can get decent outputs.

Why is this and is there a fix?

Its just how the windows and its drivers handle the hardware. As far as a fix, don't know, just turn down the wave output as well so that the master volume has a more fluid and sensitive control.

 

[ghall]

I know what you mean. I started playing a game, and kaboom! It scared me, and hurt my ears at the same time.

 

[apfhex]

I've had to reduce the volume to almost zero and its still pretty loud, whilst on the mac side i have to max out the volume before i can get decent outputs.

I hear ya. I keep my MacOS system volume at about 50% and iTunes at 100%. In Windows I have to turn the system volume down to a few pixels above 0.

I've seen similar behavior on other PCs.