Minimum volume still too loud

Good grief.

All I want to know is if there is a setting I am missing!!! There's nothing "broken" here. I thought I was pretty explicit about that in my first question. Why is your answer always "take it to the store"? Do you repair Ipods for a living or something???

Anyone else want to actually answer the question?

If you read the link I posted in my initial email, you will see that this same "gentleman" posted the same worthless (and non-responsive) answer to someone else's post. I thought I was being clear that it was not helpful.

The last thing I expect is for the same person that derailed that question posting again! Sorry if you think it is rude, but it ****** me off that (a) he did not bother to read the question I asked, (b) failed to answer the very question I asked, and (c) has a stock answer (which you can see if you read through his other postings) that he uses for everything.

Back to the point. Put more simply, my question is this:

Is there a way to lower the minimum volume?

W-a-a-a-a-a-a-y before I take the Ipod in to a store for a repair, I'm **** well gonna find out if there's a setting I'm missing.

Taking something back to the store is a last resort -- certainly not the first "diagnostic" method that should be suggested! I mean really! Who suggests returning stuff at the first possible moment? Why? How is that helpful?

Thank you Deggie, that's very helpful. I tried the equalizer settings but couldn't tell much difference.

You mention a volume adjustment? Is this a setting in iTunes? Can you elaborate?

I somehow doubt it is malfunctioning since it is still objectively pretty quiet at the lowest volume setting -- just louder than my old Ipod was softer and slightly louder than my taste. Of course, that's always a possibility that hardware failure is the answer, but I'll exhaust the possibilities on the software side first.

No.

But thanks for playing.

I'm really glad to hear that I'm not alone in this problem!

FYI, increasing or decreasing the maximum volume does not increase the granularity of the volume at the lower end of the spectrum. Instead of having X little steps of volume, you simply have fewer steps. Again, not helpful.

I suspect that it's people like myself listening at work that have this problem the most. It's never an issue at the gym, or even on the street. Now I'm wondering if there is a fix for this issue, or whether I'm going to have to resort to headphones with a seperate volume control. Yuck.

One thing still trouble me though. I had a 2nd Gen Ipod prior to this one, and I don't remember it being such an issue. Does anyone know if they changed things somehow?

Is there anyone on here that has actual knowledge of these things, or are just stuck with unhelpful (if well intentioned) fellow users?

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