Low audio from stereo speakers on laptop?

Question

Hi
I recently bought an Advent 7111 laptop and although it has stereo speakers, I have installed the drivers, they are up to date and the volume settings are all on full levels, the sound is distant and low and resembles the sound of a mobile phone loudspeaker rather than anything of a reasonable standard. External speakers do work perfectly when plugged in so I don't think anythinhg is wrong with the sound card seems but I'm sure the sound coming from the speakers should be better than this?

The speakers are pretty much useless in anything but a silent room and external speakers are just not for carrying around especially as they need another power source anyway. I'm hoping that this isn't the best that laptop speakers has to offer and a previous laptop I had had much better sound on worse speakers. I'm sure there must be an additional setting that needs fixing. Can anyone help?

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

Answer 1

May actually be a loose connection insdie the laptop causing it. Talk to your company's tech support. They can probably talk you through reconnecting the internal speakers or you can send it back and they can do it for you.

It certainly sounds like this may be it.

Answer 2

The laptop has some nice specs. My uncle bought the M1330 (13.3 inch version) and although it's fast, it feels like cheap plastic, because that's what it's basically made of. Don't expect to play any games for long if you don't get a 9-cell or higher battery. My uncles 6-cell only lasted 3.5 hours under medium use. 4GB might be overkill, but RAM these days is cheap and you'll need as much as you can with Vista. Th laptop has an HDMI output so all you need is to plug it into the HDMI of the TV you have. Don't expect to watch Blu-Ray movies if your TV isn't certified for HDCP (The DRM virus that you need for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD). Without HDCP certification for your video card and monitor you'll be stuck at watching movies with quality less than standard DVDs. EDIT: the only bottleneck is the videocard. It's great for the lower end of the midrange area. It can play Civilizations just fine, but other games will need something better.

Answer 3

Try control panel - but I bet you already have.

On my laptop when I download music and films etc. they all come in different formats. Some play on Real Player, some quick time, some media player.

Sometimes I inadvertantly switch the default player. If the default becomes windows media BUT then I watch a set or cartoons that were downloaded as Real player clips I sometime find the volume quiet like yours.

When I go back to Windows Media I find that I left the volume low and everything returns to normal when I crank it up.

Check all your players just in case.

Answer 4

This may sound daft but have you checked volume on your audio player that you are using on screen? You may have your volume on max on your laptop but the individual audio players, ie Media player or real time will default to a quieter noice and you have to click on the screen to increase volume? Failing that, take it back to shop.

Answer 5

at the bottom right of the screen, there should be a icon in the tray of a speaker, with sound waves comin of it, double click onit, pull all the bars right up. that should do it :-).................but like the others sed, internal spaeaker are poo, especcially on laptops :-(

Answer 6

Since its new, go back to the shop you bought it from and ask them to test it against the shop model. If yours is considerably worse, then ask them to replace it

Answer 7

laptops don't have great speakers ,so use external one
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Answer 8

Laptops generally have crap built-in speakers.

You need to hook it up to external ones really.

Answer 9

ramp up the sound using the settings