[Solved] - Integrated MoB sound vs Nvidia card sound?

[kdemeoz]

Hi & thanks. I had previously looked at that, but had not understood how to "control" it. Following your suggestion i have now spent a lot of time fiddling with it, all the while streaming music with Clementine, so i would be able to instantly assess if anything good [or bad] happened. Nothing i tried at all helped to raise the sound volume to "acceptable", though i was able to find some settings that reduced it [which obviously is unhelpful, other than it proved these settings were active].

Before i paste several pics, back to my original question; "is such muted volume simply normal for integrated sound-cards, or not?" --> can i infer from your reply that in fact an integrated sound-card actually should be able to produce acceptable output volume? 

• If that's the correct answer, then it would follow that my current problem is bad speakers, so i need to buy new ones...?   
  
• Of course, if the opposite answer is true, that in fact integrated sound-cards are never as "loud" as separate cards, then it would seem unavoidable that i shall need to reinstall my Nvidia GT610.
  

   
   

Here, most of the bars were already maximised, but i manually increased the others also to maximum:
   

I don't understand what these 2 RHS bars do, but i couldn't find a way to change them:
   

From experimentation i found that only these 3 bars made any difference to the volume, but as you can see they're already maximised (ie, the only difference i could make here was to lower them; unhelpful), but the speaker volume remains far too soft:
   

A few more pics to follow...