Your OS-level volume level is the maximum permitted level.
The volume in your ears is that multiplied by the amplitude of what you're listening to.
It frustrates me that when I listen to soft passages in classical music, I literally cannot turn the volume up loud enough to hear it because it won't go any higher. But then I hear a system beep and it leaves my ears ringing it's so loud.
What I really wish is that dynamic volume equalization would be built in as an option to the OS itself. Then "maximum" might actually be something useful.
Your OS-level volume level is the maximum permitted level.
The volume in your ears is that multiplied by the amplitude of what you're listening to.
It frustrates me that when I listen to soft passages in classical music, I literally cannot turn the volume up loud enough to hear it because it won't go any higher. But then I hear a system beep and it leaves my ears ringing it's so loud.
What I really wish is that dynamic volume equalization would be built in as an option to the OS itself. Then "maximum" might actually be something useful.