HD300 Low Volume

[mmmmdonut]

I've been searching around and havent been able to find an answer to this but I have a hd300 in extender mode, connected via hdmi direct to TV, audio output set to pcm, and I find the volume to be extremely low.

On the sage server side, I'm running win7 with hauppage 2250 card. All input is ATSC only so all files are HD with AC3 audio. I have adjusted the line in and tv tuner registry keys so that they are plus 15db in the registry setting for the hauppage card and doesnt seem to make a difference.

Is there anything else I can look at or explore that I might be missing? I am new to Sage and have only been using my setup for a couple of weeks now.

tia

[starfire]

Don't mean to be funny but you have checked the volume is set at full for the HD300?

What about playing back other media like Videos, Music - is everything quiet?

[Grant.Edwards]

Originally Posted by mmmmdonut

I've been searching around and havent been able to find an answer to
this but I have a hd300 in extender mode, connected via hdmi direct to
TV, audio output set to pcm, and I find the volume to be extremely
low.

I find the same to be true for the HD200 model when using hdmi. For
the other inputs attached to my TV (DVD player [component], Roku
[hdmi], built-in tuner [?]), the TV volume setting for comformtable
listening is 8-12. For the HD200, the TV volume has to be set to
around 40. That's with the HD200 volume set to 90-100%.

Most of the time when I switch the TV input from HD200 to something
else, I end up rattling the windows for a few seconds while I
desperately mash the Vol- button on the TV.

Is there anything else I can look at or explore that I might be
missing? I am new to Sage and have only been using my setup for a
couple of weeks now.

I've seen other similar complaints, so I decided it was just an bad
design decsision.

[mmmmdonut]

Originally Posted by starfire

Don't mean to be funny but you have checked the volume is set at full for the HD300?

What about playing back other media like Videos, Music - is everything quiet?

Can you explain about volume being set at full as I dont recall any options like that on the 300 and it very well could be something just as simple as this.

As for other media, I havent put any other media into Sage at this time but will just to see if similiar results.

Thanks for the replies.

[Fuzzy]

press the vol+ button on the remote until the on-screen volume bar is at top...

[vexhold]

I just recieved my HD300 as well and replaced a HD200 and I too think it is super quiet. And yes, I have the volume on the HD300 set to full.

With the HD200, and my Denon at 27 it is pretty damn loud. With the HD300, I have to get up to 36-40 to be enjoyable.

I too am using HDMI with audio set to PCM.

All i can say is "grrrr"

[mmmmdonut]

Just wanted to say thanks for the replies. Good to know about those volume controls while not my issue can see that as an issue for some.

I did try playback of few other sources (dvd image, mp4 w aac) and volume level is about the same so I will chalk it up the device itself. Maybe this is something that can/will be addressed either through firmware or next hardware release.