Bose Revolve (bluetooth) speaker volume is very low

[jameslsmith]

Even with pavucontrol set to 150% I can barely hear this thing. This low volume situation happens whenever I'm connected to LM 20 via bluetooth or USB. It does not happen when it's connected to my Android, to my iPad or to my Windows 10 machine.


It used to work well with my Linux machine before two things happened:


1. I updated to LM 20
2. I updated the firmware in the bluetooth device


I'm not too sure which of those two things caused the volume span to change but it was definitely one of them,


The device is a Bose Revolve Soundlink that is about 3 years old.


Here is the info for my computer:

System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware 15 R3 v: 1.9.0 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Alienware model: Alienware 15 R3 v: A00 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI [Legacy]: Alienware v: 1.9.0 date: 01/02/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 23.1 Wh condition: 23.1/99.0 Wh (23%) 
  model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 44798 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] vendor: Dell 
  driver: nvidia v: 440.100 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-47-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell 
  driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 3c:00.0 
  IF: enp60s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: d000 
  bus ID: 3d:00.0 
  IF: wlp61s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-5:3 
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 6.37 TiB used: 1.97 TiB (31.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS200T2B0B-00YS70 
  size: 1.82 TiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WDBNCE0010PNC 
  size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WDS200T2B0B size: 1.82 TiB 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD My Passport 25E1 size: 1.82 TiB 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 
  bus ID: 00:17.0 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 538.38 GiB (29.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 57 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 299 Uptime: 1h 02m Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 5.01 GiB (32.3%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38

EDIT: I want to reiterate that this speaker is still very loud when connected to my iPad, my Macbook, and my Windows 10 machine.

[QIII]

Moved to MINT