Which sounds better?

>>61914956
maxing the hardware speakers sounds better

depends if you want other programs to sound louder or lower

besides that it makes no difference

>>61914956
The second one would probably sound better.

>becoming an audiophile
stop this before you end up with raised cabling and acoustic padding

>>61914956
Uninstalling VLC, putting your PCs audio on 50% and putting your amp on whatever the fuck you want.

why are there two of these threads

>>61914956
Max digital signal volume and adjust with an amp.

>>61914956
Better to keep the player at 100 and use the system volume.

Honestly it shouldn't matter either way, it just makes more sense.

>>61914956
If your audio device is properly handling analog gain through the system volume control, the first is technically better as pure software gain reduces your potential dynamic range. It makes no difference if your noise floor is inaudible, the full dynamic range of your hardware is unattainable (almost all recordings), or if your system volume doesn't control analog gain.

Basically don't worry about it.

>>61914956
No difference unless you go over 100% in vlc (don't do that)

>>61915052
>>>61914956 (OP)
>Uninstalling VLC, putting your PCs audio on 50% and putting your amp on whatever the fuck you want.
Why?

The first one is better.

>>61914956
Setting everything to 100% and controlling the volume with your amp

Vlc at 100% (alternatively, ditch vlc and use mpv)
system at 75%
External amp to regulate volume

>>61915954
correct answer. Don't know about linux-gnu, but in winders, all audio is upscaled to 32bit anyway before it goes into the digital volume control.(which looses bitrate)

As a general rule, if you're after autism quality, max the source volume and control things with whatever you're using as an amp.

Uninstall VLC right now.

>>61915984
Citation needed.

>>61916002
>>61915052
What's wrong with VLC?

>>61914956
Both at 100% you earless pleb

>>61915984
windows doesnt go up to 32 bit, its 24 bit only. windows has multiple audio apis, and none of them upscale anything. linux doesnt do that either, neither with pulseaudio or alsa. if youre using oss then youve got a whole nother can of worms to fuck with.

>>61914956
second one?

and don't use vlc

>>61916022
Everything

>[REBUILDING FONT CACHE INTENSIFIES]

>>61916022
worst audio of any media player desu

it doesn't matter unless you have your own power source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJy6VJvSCk

>>61916037
>neither with pulseaudio
>[citation needed]

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I wonder what his audio settings are...

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>>61914956
Always max the the sound card and AMP and then adjust the player.
>tfw you can't control the windows 10 sounds and die a little every time when you here a bing-bong at max volume

>>61914956
Both on 100%, set the volume with the hardware controller

>>61914956
Setting the player to low volume while keeping the hardware volume at a setting that prevents overdrive gives the best results for me.

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This sounds better.

>puts his audio at only 100%

kek

>>61916022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8o9G5DeLQc

>>61914956
PC audio to 100% and player to whatever you feel comfortable with.