Why does my car auxilliary jack have to have the volume turned way up?

Asked by syz (35938

) September 1st, 2009

I’ve put (aftermarket) SiriusXm radio in my new car, with an audio cord going from the “audio out” to the “aux jack” on the car. I’ve tried two cords now, because I thought the first one didn’t work. It turns out, I just have to jack the volume way up on the stereo system and it works just fine. But I’m afraid that I’ll forget to turn the volume down when I get out of the car and then blow out the speakers (again) with the regular radio when I get back in.

I am doing aything wrong with my set up? Is there any way I can adjust this?

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How old is the car? Maybe it’s grown hard of hearing…

You should be able to adjust the +/- volume of the radio on your stereo system, so that you won’t forget and blow your speakers out.

jfos (7392

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I’m not talking about the volume knob/etc., but the actual amount of output sent from the radio to the speakers… Kind of like a course adjustment, and the volume knob would be a fine adjustment.

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When I plug my ipod into my aux thingy, the volume on the ipod has to be the entire way up for me to change it on the stereo. That probably doesn’t help at all but it came to mind.

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If ur playing back mp3s from a player it may be because of the way they were converted from audio to mp3. Most conversion software will allow to vary both the quality and the recorded volume at the time of transfer. Check some individual files to see if that’s the case. If ur playing an older iPod, you may have to remove the volume limiter, which can be done quite easily by downloading the instructions from the web :-)

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