Sound in front speakers is louder than the rear and center speakers (motherboard gigabyte z97-D3h)

pitelk

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Apr 14, 2015
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Hello,
I just bought a Gigabyte Z97-D3H mother board. I have logitech 5.1 surround speakers. In the realtek audio manager there is the classic screen where your speakers are presented and clicking on them makes the respective speaker to play a sound ( a piano melody). The weird thing is that the front speakers are much louder than the others (center/sub, rear).
If I enable the room correction options and lower the front speakers about 6db then all the speakers sound the same.
Is that normal? is the gigabyte faulty?

With my previous motherboard (an asrock P45) all the speakers had the same volume without room correction.

Thank you
 
Are you speakers plugged into the green/blue/black/yellow/pink whatever ports? The front are usually the green and maybe they are set to headphones instead of speaker. Headphone output usually is louder because it has to amplify the signal to drive the headphones where speakers have built in amps.
 

pitelk

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Yes they are connected in their colored ports in the back panel. The green port says "line out" and the front speakers are connected to it.
At the control panel->hardware and sound->manage audio devices I can again click on the speakers and hear each one respectively. In there it seems that they all have the same volume. Not quite sure though because in the sounds are different for each speaker (duh). But for sure if there is a volume difference is not so big as in when i use the realtech audio manager.
 

Kingkesh

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This could be the RAM I had the same Issue on changing Ram slots my PC booted maybe test with a different Ram module.
On disconnecting the power for 2 hours before I found out about the RAM it would boot into recovery mode as if the bios was corrupt once swapping the ram slot it booted without resting the bios or anything.