OEM HD Dock - Loss of Audio Output

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Just picked up the OEM Moto HD Dock. Despite Moto totally borking on the Razr design and making this Dock look like a one armed alarm clock, it does the job. (I know the connections probably had to be located on the top to accommodate the "thin-ness" but a 3 tab deal on the side of the phone like the Galaxy Nexus has for docking would have been the cat's a$$)

I have however noticed that when I plug my headphones into the back of the dock, the volume is approximately 40-50% quieter than when I just plug it directly into the phone. So my 2 part question is:

• Is there a phone output setting I am missing?
• Anyone else experience this or do I have a lemon?

Thanks for your help XDA cronies!

This is a wild guess on my part buuuuut.....

Most likely this is the dock outputting "line level" which is very close to, but not exactly the same as, "headphone level". The difference is in output level and impedance. Long and short of it is, this output was designed with the idea in mind that you'd likely be plugging it into a stereo or something of that nature, and the output is "cleaner" than sending headphone level into a stereo.

Notice that when you take something like the phone or an ipod directly, and go into a stereo, sometimes you have to set the phones volume at something like 75% so that the stereo doesn't sound distorted?

Thats why.

Or I could be completely wrong.

Thanks brother