[Marky1973]

Had a play around last night after work and, on first impressions the volume through my headphones (Sony MDR-XD200) was plenty loud enough - full volume was not enough to melt my brain, but it sounded plenty for car/train journeys.

However, once I had updated the firmware and put some music on, played around with the DVR dock and the telly, the volume didn't seem quite as impressive - certainly full volume now sounded like it would drowned out as soon as I got on the bus. Not usre if this was anything to do with the firmware update or just me being odd....but it felt notably different.....

Now I appreciate there are laws about volume limits and I don't want to listen at stupid levels, I just want to hear what is being played - no point having a portable media player if you can't hear it when you are using in 'portably'.....

Done some looking on here and some googling and I am now wondering whether it might be my headphones (I haven't actually tried the supplied set yet....) The Sony set are great with the Hifi (for the money) and fantastic when watching films, but I was wondering whether the impedence (70 Ohms and sensitivity, 102 db/mW) might be limiting them slightly? This is based on what I have been reading, so please excuse my ignornance!

Would I do better to get some ear phones aimed at portable players, like the Sennheiser CX300/500 (both 16/113 ohms/db/Mw)?

I don't want to deafen myself, just need a bit of extra kick for train/bus/car journeys.

Wasn't sure if this was the correct forum for posting, so have also asked this question in the headphone section.

Thanks in advance!

[paulgrinny]

Hi Mark, tried my Archos this morning, the volume was very low, i recorded the DVD and adjusted the volume control on the archos recording screen to higher level.

The green light flashed when charged after 8 hrs charging to full.