Individual volume adjustment in front panel

[fude]

For your information, I googled first. No luck.

Here's the plan. I have kickass headphones and I thought it would be convenient to have my kickass headphones plugged in the front panel jack. But as usual, the kickass headphones doesn't have a volume control in itself so they play way too loud when plugged in since the volume settings are for my speaker set that has an own volume knob of which I am used to adjust the actual volume. So in short: system volume max, adjustment via speaker knob. I've went through the volume settings but I haven't found an individual adjustment for the front panel jack. Am I still missing a place where to find that or does this feature need third-party software?

Also it seems very odd that the volume output to my kickass headphones is very loud. I find the reasonable levels only until I've gone almost on the bottom of the volume bar.

Hence the problem I'm currently plugging my kickass headphones in the output jack in the speaker set. Due to the placement of the treble, this way is quite impractical.

[fude]

[cool29801]

I also have nice headphones I bought for my home studio ($140)

WAY worth it!

Things are a bit loud on my part too, but I don't really understand what you are saying.

[fude]

Jun 4, 2009 16:27:02 GMT -5 cool29801 said:

Things are a bit loud on my part too, but I don't really understand what you are saying.

Oh damn, and I had such an effort to get my point through.

Well in short:

I have two volume sources: my headphones and the speakers. The system volume is max. I can control the volume to a suitable area in my speakers, but I can't do that with my headphones.

• If I plug my headphones to speakers' 3.5mm jack, I get the suitable volume, but the treble placement is an issue.
  
• If I plug the headphones to the front panel, the volume is too loud.
  
• If I adjust the volume from the system volume to be suitable for the headphones, that'll make the volume in the speakers too low.
  

That wasn't short, was it? Well, my point is that I would like to have a way to adjust the front panel volume separately.

[Confusingboat]

You do know they sell little volumizing adapter things right? You plug it into your sound source, and then plug your headphones into it. Usually they're used for amplification but it works both ways (because the volume does go to 0).

[fude]

Jun 5, 2009 13:36:55 GMT -5 Confusingboat said:

You do know they sell little volumizing adapter things right? You plug it into your sound source, and then plug your headphones into it. Usually they're used for amplification but it works both ways (because the volume does go to 0).

Are you talking about portable amps? Retail ones cost quite much and I haven't seen them on sold so much. I've also seen tutorials about making an own one, but making it even reasonably of good quality would cost at least 50$. Nope.

If there's adapters like that for a light price, give me a name or an example product, I'd be very interested to look on it.