Originally Posted By: taym
Ok. Increasing the volume to 100% in iTunes does not help. It simply allows you to reach the maximum volume "earlier" on the volume bar. It seems ti simply makes the volume increase non linear with the volume bar. That is strange, to me. I do not get the purpose of such a feature. Max volume is stil the same.

If it is doing that then there is a bug. It should cap the maximum volume to be something less.

I've never had any issues with the volume cap. If I get anywhere near the maximum on my limited iPod, it starts getting painful to listen to.

It may just be that the audio output stage in the classic just isn't very good. There appear to be users from all over the world complaining about bad sound quality so I don't think it is the EU volume cap.