Hi all, I did a search and did not quite find an answer/solution to why this occurs...
When I play stereo music via JRiver MC 19 the volume is loud enough with just a small turn of the volume dial, however when I watch movies via JRiver MC19 the volume needs to be substantially turned up (to almost clipping in some situations). It's not a big deal to turn the volume up, however I have found myself on more than a few occasions forgetting to turn the volume back down after watching a movie and go to playback music/song which ends up blaring so loud that it scares the cr@p out of everybody in my house and not only that, but I'm also scared about blowing my speakers and/or damaging my equipment.
My equipment is basically a 2 channel setup with an (a) PC, (b) USB/SPDIF Converter, (c) DAC, (d) Integrated Stereo Amp, (e) 2 speakers, (f) HDTV, and (g) Cable Box. And this is used for music, movies and also cable TV. I have noticed that music playback via JRiver and cable TV are about the same volume, it's just when watching movies via JRiver that requires turning the volume up substantially.
So my questions are:
1. Do you know why music playback via JRiver only takes small volume increments to fill my room, but movies via JRiver requires the volume be turned up substantially?
2. Does anybody know a setting in JRiver that I am overlooking that would allow my movie and stereo playback to be at similar volumes?
3. Does anybody know why the 2 different applications of Cable TV and JRiver music playback are at similar volumes, but movie playback via JRiver needs substantial increases in volumes to be listenable?
I'm not sure if my equipment setup would be helpful, but it is as follows ...
For watching movies and music playback I use an Asus VivoPC with Windows 8.1 OS, using JRiver MC19 (ASIO) for playback and I stream movies and music from a WD My Cloud NAS via Ethernet. My equipment setup is something like this ...
a. From my Asus VivoPC to a Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 USB/SPDIF converter via USB, and...
b. From the Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 into a Rega DAC via SPDIF Coaxial, and...
c. From my Rega DAC to a Decware Taboo Integrated Tube Amplifier via RCA, and
d. From my Decware Taboo to Omega single driver loudspeakers via speaker cables (these are very efficient speakers 95dB @ 8 ohms and have no problem whatsoever filling my room while playing music or watching Cable TV), and
e. I use a Samsung 65" HDTV as a monitor from the Asus VivoPC to the HDTV via HDMI.
For watching cable TV it's almost the same (btw I don't watch Cable TV through my PC, but only through the Cable Box):
a. Cable Box to Rega DAC via SPDIF TOSLink, and...
b. From my Rega DAC to a Decware Taboo Integrated Tube Amplifier via RCA, and
c. From my Decware Taboo to Omega single driver loudspeakers via speaker cables, and
d. I use a Samsung 65" HDTV as a monitor from the Cable Box to the HDTV via HDMI.