Quote: Originally Posted by
Sonicxtacy02 
RR is very bias when it comes to treble and bass control.. i doubt anything thats out now will work with those controls honestly.. i've never seen ANY card make use of the control
Actually, the bass and treble work on both my desktop test machine, and on my car PC (which has on-board audio). Yes, it can be fickle, but is more of a hardware issue than a RR issue it seems.
As for the laptop not putting out enough audio, that is actually very strange. If you hook the cable to your headphone jack, and not the line out, you should get way more volume than you could ever want. I have it set up this way, and have the carpc volume set to around 30%, as putting the PC volume to any higher distorts the audio, and just control the volume with my head unit.
I prefer a real volume control personally. Also my HU has Auto volume, so if I put the windows down, the volume will increase automatically.