How should the sound card/speaker/Player's respective volume be adjusted?

Perhaps many users, especially music enthusiasts, will be in the audio and video experience in the volume size is difficult to grasp the problem, no matter how to adjust the speaker or playback software volume control will appear the bottom noise, distortion and other annoying phenomenon.

A set of playback system, the sound card, speakers and playback software will have their own volume control options, these three specific how to adjust it? After verifying and summarizing, the following conclusions are obtained:

Speaker-sound card-playback software, the three connected equipment of the volume adjustment should follow the "big open, the front is small" principle, the sound card and the speaker volume open to maximize, by adjusting the volume of the software to find the right balance point.

The reason is that the speaker is responsible for the amplifier, but it has its own rated power value, so should be the volume to close to the power limit, and the front level of the player to increase the volume is through the output voltage push the sound, this way prone to cutting the top distortion.

However, "after the opening of a large, front-level Open small" principle is relatively, in a certain range of safety within the appropriate adjustment of the volume of each device is reasonable.