Hi...i purchased a DGX670 and realised the speakers are so low...pushed the volume to the maximum and it's still low for such a big instrument. Anyone having the issue. At first i thought that was a configuration issue or hardwares but looks like not..anyone having the same issue. So we have no choice than amplifying the sound through the headphones/output jack ?
In reply to Alphaomega: as gwcuk already indicated, improving on the DGX670 default low speaker volume can be done in the EQ submenu of the Mixer menu, the top of which is entered by pressing the Mixer button (to the bottom left of the display screen). Once the top of this menu is visible, use TAB right button to get to MasrerEQ settings. I cannot remember for sure but seem to recall most if not all values EQ-1 thru 5 plus Total Gain default to zero.
Upon finding both speaker volume & headphone volume low by default, i first tried tweaking TG up. By the time i got to +6, the speakers were suitably loud on full volume (panel knob) and the headphone port volume was better but still too low for me. By the time i tweaked gain to +9, headphone output was where i wanted it BUT speaker output was too high/distorting, so i backed off to +6, then went into the Compressor menu and by using the Ouput meter as a gauge, was able to enable one of the Compressor options and lower the Compression virtual knob to ensure no clipping of output when playing loud dynamics. I’m still playing with various of these params since there are so many to play with.
As to unsatisfactory headphone output, i might try an inexpensive headphone amp. I suspect the headphone line-level may be lower than usual for a DP because it’s a shared headphone/line-out port. Also, ive seen other owners of Yami DPs report that their model also has unsatisfactory volume level …. so perhaps this is partly a Yamaha trait.
As a follow up to gmeader re: the somewhat odd headphone / line-out port, after months of headscratching, i eventually determined that a Y cable will probably suffice for attaching the 670 to external monitors or amp. However, after initially reading about this shared port, it seemed odd. If this was a $400 bargain basement DP with no LEDs, no config screen and such, it would make more sense. But for a recent new design, it generated all kinds of theories as to why Yamaha gave it a single shared line-out port. After watching many review videos - at least 2 directly sponsored in part by Yamaha - it was both noticeable and comical how each of these videos, in there own ways, avoided the simple 1 or 2 sentences to clearly explain considerations for using the headphone port as a line out ….. like “ yes, we know it is typical for line out to be facilitated by 2-line-level ports instead of a single, shared headphone port , but just get a Y cable and then attach it to typical line-out devices such as monitors, mixer or amp/PA and it will probably work fine”.
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