USBM2011

Hey all, not sure if this will be news to anyone, but was to me.....

Ever since I got my 2011 ISF (has blue tooth streaming audio) i've noticed the volume of the ISF ML stereo was super quiet, like even at MAX volume it was loud, but not like blaring loud as you'd expect when at MAX volume (not that i want to drive around with it at max anyway), but i was wondering if it was the bluetooth being weak or what because through the radio or CD player it could go much louder than with iPhone streaming from apple radio, because i had the volume on phone all the way up.....

Well i figured out its a setting in the phone called "sound check" under the settings in the Music/iTunes/radio app.

I un-checked "sound check" and realized it was the phone that was limiting the volume output of songs in my library and streaming, because the purpose of sound check was to standardize the volume of all your library to the same volume, the problem is if you happen to have a song in your phone that at the time of recording was much quieter than another it would put all your songs at that quieter volume, so you'd basically have to have it all the way up, and the rest of the songs would be much quieter.

Like i said not news to some, and irrelevant to some, but its been bugging me since i got this car that the bluetooth audio was so weak....

Tom2769

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AhHa! if you were in AZ, I'd buy you a beer. Mine was doing the same, but not anymore - much thanks.

kzlflash

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(MY2011) My problem is that the music volume is much lower, until I make or receive a phone call. After that it jumps back up to how it "normally" sounds. I say normal because my music use to be much louder.
I also checked and my sound check is off.

Anyone have the same problem and found a solution?

USBM2011

Mine did that also, i find it to be intermittent though, the solution i found was to turn up the bluetooth phone volume all the way prior to ending a phone call if possible. not sure if it actually works but it seemed to ? could be my imagination...