Audiophile with headphones and volume levels

[Forenzikks]

Ok i have a cheap pair of headphones i use to hear the beat when recording vocals .they arent the little cheesy ones but the ones that hhave the bass boost so you can tell it s there.but anyways when using em on my old SB soundcard they were loud and I could turn them up to the point wheere they were too loud..but now since i have an Audiophile I plug them into the RCA outs and i have to crank the volume on the AUdipphile control panel and they still arent even loud..so my question is what am I doing wrong and if nothing is there anything i can get outside of a mixer to boost my headphones volume so i can hear the beats a bit better.............

Also just recently it seems that my volume in my Audiophile control panel is not going all the way to 0 but topping out at -18 which is causing me to have to crank the volume more than i ve had to to get the music to play louder thru my monitors so Im wandering why out of the blue it is doing this also..................Thanks

 

[DonF]

The problem with the headphone level is that the Audiophile's output is line-level, high impedance. It's not designed to drive headphones directly. You would need an amplifier inbetween the Audiophile and the headphones.

Can you just leave the old SB soundcard in the computer alongside the Audiophile? That would be your cheapest solution, I think. Just route the tracks you want to monitor to the SB while recording through the Audiophile.

As for the low signal on the Audiophile meters, I would need more information to figure that one out. For starters, Does this problem occur on input, playback, or both? What are you expecting to see on the meters?

DonF