I just read through the latest KDE plasma news and found that raising the maximum volume level can damage the speakers and is only adviced for temporary raising the volume of quiet sounds.
That gave me the thought that maybe it would be better to implement some kind of “normalize quiet audio” feature instead. That would raise the volume to the 100% level, but would not allow for loud sounds to destroy the speakers.
So: what do you think? And if yes, where to suggest it? bugs.kde.org - which package?
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Simply NO!!!
That part of the thread was badly written. It’s meant for those too stupid to realize that having that at 150% while having your physical speakers turned up too loud can break them. Thing is even setting speakers too loud while that setting is at 100% is apt to eventually break them.
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if the sound is too low, you can run alsamixer and raise the PCM level of your sound card to around 85% (before it turns red).
you can also mute or unmute the auto gain control which sort of “normalizes” the sound but i find it distracting when it kicks in to limit a particularly punchy part of a song.
using these settings, iv’e never needed to check the raise maximum sound box as my amplified speakers can be quite loud when pushed…normal listening volume is around 20%
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A bit off-topic, but it would be nice if “raise maximum volume” would be per device instead of global. I have 3 soundchips and only need it on the one I use for VoIP.