Volume Booster - Help

rts

I am looking for something along the lines of a Volume Booster that I can put somewhere between my cable box and a transmitter for wireless headphones. The headphones that I bought were relatively inexpensive (I was buying four) but they work great with one exception. The transmitter on these particular headphones has the stupidest ‘feature’ I have ever seen on a piece of electronics. If the volume running to the transmitter isn’t loud enough, after 90 seconds it shuts off. This creates a horrible noise in the headphones. It works fine with the 360, and the Wii, and my computer. But whenever it is transmitting a signal from the cable box it constantly shuts on and off.

I went to Radioshack in hopes that they would be able to help me. They certainly sold me something called a volume booster but it didn’t do anything of the sort. Upon returning it they said they didn’t know what else they had that would help. I also tried Circuit City. I have been trying to find something online but when I search Volume Booster or Volume Amplifier I mostly get guitar stuff. I have decided to turn to you guys in hopes that someone can recommend something that they are certain does what I am looking for. That is to take the signal from the cable box, and make it louder before it gets to the transmitter. I have made a diagram to help me explain.



Can anyone please point me in the right direction? This is driving me nuts.

Atlus Parker

Have you set your cable box's volume to max?

rts

Atlus Parker wrote:

Have you set your cable box's volume to max?

I have not found any kind of control for the volume anywhere in the cablebox options. There appears to be no control over it.

Atlus Parker

cakemikz wrote:

Atlus Parker wrote:

Have you set your cable box's volume to max?

I have not found any kind of control for the volume anywhere in the cablebox options. There appears to be no control over it.

Who's your service provider? Or, what br and of box is it?

rts

My service provider is Cox, and the box brand is Scientific Atlanta.

Atlus Parker

cakemikz wrote:

My service provider is Cox, and the box brand is Scientific Atlanta.

If their boxes are anything like ours, if you go into the settings menu there should be an option called Audio Range or something to that effect. If you set that to Fixed it will keep the volume on the box at max. May or may not help your problem.

rts

I couldn't find an audio range setting anywhere, though I will keep looking. In the settings menu I went into there were only like 4 items. It was...not very in depth.

Atlus Parker

cakemikz wrote:

I couldn't find an audio range setting anywhere, though I will keep looking. In the settings menu I went into there were only like 4 items. It was...not very in depth.

Hit your settings button twice.

Edit: Also, I stopped being lazy. The exact name for the setting is Audio:Volume Ctrl.

rts

Wait...nevermind I found it. You are the best. Thanks a lot man this has been driving me nuts.

Atlus Parker

cakemikz wrote:

Wait...nevermind I found it. You are the best. Thanks a lot man this has been driving me nuts.

That fixed it?

rts

Seems to have. The headphones came on immediatly when I changed it. You saved me some money. I feel like an ass for not having pressed settings twice but if only you could see how unintuitive this settings menu was. It had a little icon at the bottom that said 'more settings' but the icon just resembled the up and down buttons...so I just pressed them and cycled through the basic settings.

Atlus Parker

cakemikz wrote:

Seems to have. The headphones came on immediatly when I changed it. You saved me some money. I feel like an ass for not having pressed settings twice but if only you could see how unintuitive this settings menu was.

I see it a dozen times a day. :P