Make my audio louder Ubuntu 14.04

I have an Asus tp500l laptop. On windows 8 and 10 my audio sound was much louder i guess it was because of the windows update but i'm not sure wich audio driver was installed. is there a way to get the same quality audio as in windows?

3 Answers

You can increase volume by cliciking "Allow more that 100% at

System Settings -> Sound

Since you have yet to reply to @Fabby with the requested post edit on yr hw info, I just will assume you use a PulseAudio sound server on your Trusty Tahr...

In that config you can use pactl. (Please lookup man pactl in the terminal). From the man page:

DESCRIPTION

 pactl can be used to issue control commands to the PulseAudio sound server.

As already suggested elsewhere, using pactl, you can tweak your sound temporarily or permanently. Before commiting to a permanent change: try it in your session by typing in terminal (CTRL+ALT+T):

$ pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 150%

and play with your sound controls. If you are satisfied go on to the excellent permanent solution proposed by @Radu_Rădeanu as referenced above. I have not had a chance to try it myself on 14.04.

Well, if what you really need is to feel music louder, you can use pulseeffects on Ubuntu.

Install:

sudo apt install pulseeffects

Run:

pulseeffects

This is the configuration I've ended up myself at Kubuntu 20.04:

Base Enhancer makes bass louder.

Cryslalizer makes mid and high frequencies sound better.

Auto Gain is able to make sound louder when it is present, because it is able to detect silence.

Maximizer always makes sound to feel louder, but more importantly, it intelligently reduces volume to protect audio from clipping. So there is no artificial noise in the audio.

Be sure your audio pipeline has the same order for enabled audio effects to get the best experience.