
But the Microsoft troubleshooter did fix it. I was not able to determine what it had done (part of the Microsoft Ethos: keep people as uninformed as possible).

I ran it and it said that it had found a problem that it fixed. Then I found a recommendation to use the Microsoft Bluetooth trouble shooting tool. The only thing I ended up changing was the startup of the bluetooth drivers from manual to automatic.

I didn’t find any place where the power down option was selected. Eventually I looked at everything remotely mouse or bluetooth related and looked for anything that sounded like power down control. The information wasn’t quite lining up with the options I was finding. I tried what was recommended here and on a few other sites. This should be useful for any device - Bluetooth keyboard, headset, speaker, mice etc.

Double click the Bluetooth adapter to open its properties:

This ‘gate’ (which is probably implemented in the software/firmware) should be removed by JBL as it achieves nothing but causes a lot of problems when using the analog audio input.Īs others have stated above, if you still have problems when using a headphone output, turn the device (TV etc) to maximum volume and reduce the volume on the JBL speaker to whatever level you desire.RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows issues and optimize system performance An alternative solution is to connect the speaker to the headphone output (of a TV, for example), as this should give a stronger signal. I could not prevent the speaker from ‘gating’ (cutting off) the sound, so I inserted a small battery-powered headphone amplifer between the DAC and the speaker to boost the signal strength. In my case, I’m sending the audio signal to the speaker from a DAC with a line level output (this is a weaker signal than you get from a headphone output). It seems quite clear that the speaker (JBL Xtreme 2) contains a digital ‘gate’ which silences all audio below a certain loudness level.
