for years, since 2007 or so, i've used an ipod touch to stream music in my restaurant (connected directly to powered commercial bose speakers), at first i primarily streamed mp3 files, then i quickly moved to pandora's paid service, which has been great. from the get-go i never liked the ipod touch because, imo, it made the simple task of transferring mp3 files from my pc to the touch unnecessarily laborious, requiring a host of itunes related software/bloatware to run/launch, which continued to run in the background until killed. in fact it was such a pain in the arse that i stopped using mp3 files altogether and just stuck with pandora. anyway i've been wanting to ditch the touch for quite some time and finally got around to it recently, i purchased an asus 7" tablet (memo me172v).
the thing is, the output volume level for music is very low, much, much lower than the ancient ipod touch i was using. as a test, i also tried a galaxy s4 and an iphone 5 - the volume output level from the galaxy s4 was the same as the asus tablet, very low, while the volume output level of the iphone 5 was the same as the ipod touch, very strong. in fact setting the volume level on either android device (asus tablet, galaxy s4) to max is the equivalent of setting the volume level on either apple device to half way, i.e. the volume strength of the apple devices is about twice as strong as the android devices. so what's the deal, what's going on here? is this a known issue with android devices? granted, i doubt that many android users use their devices to output music to external speakers, nonetheless it's my primary use.
i've tried downloading all sorts of "sound/audio" apps, boosters and equalizers, a couple have helped a little bit, but nothing i've found comes close to pushing the levels to that of the apple devices. there was one app that looked promising but the developer noted that it only worked on rooted devices - the gang at xda is working on a root for the asus tablet model i have, but they haven't entirely cracked it yet, so my tablet remains unrooted. so does anyone here have any recommendations? if there's not a device fix, is there perhaps an external booster device that might work? any help would be very much appreciated.
the thing is, the output volume level for music is very low, much, much lower than the ancient ipod touch i was using. as a test, i also tried a galaxy s4 and an iphone 5 - the volume output level from the galaxy s4 was the same as the asus tablet, very low, while the volume output level of the iphone 5 was the same as the ipod touch, very strong. in fact setting the volume level on either android device (asus tablet, galaxy s4) to max is the equivalent of setting the volume level on either apple device to half way, i.e. the volume strength of the apple devices is about twice as strong as the android devices. so what's the deal, what's going on here? is this a known issue with android devices? granted, i doubt that many android users use their devices to output music to external speakers, nonetheless it's my primary use.
i've tried downloading all sorts of "sound/audio" apps, boosters and equalizers, a couple have helped a little bit, but nothing i've found comes close to pushing the levels to that of the apple devices. there was one app that looked promising but the developer noted that it only worked on rooted devices - the gang at xda is working on a root for the asus tablet model i have, but they haven't entirely cracked it yet, so my tablet remains unrooted. so does anyone here have any recommendations? if there's not a device fix, is there perhaps an external booster device that might work? any help would be very much appreciated.
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