XBR75X85OC audio volume setting from receiver extremely low

Equipment involved:Sony AV receiver STRDN1040, Sony Bluray player BDPBX510 and DISH Hopper receiver.Equipment currently configured per TV owners manual HD BRAVIA SYNC Basic connection. Volume is extremely low. 

Frankly speaking, ThinkPad W510 speakers or/and it's Conexant sound chip/driver is mediocre. It seems that it is a design fault or Lenovo is trying to save that small amount of additional cost for each of the component so that they can earn more. I used an T400 loaner set before, the speaker and the Conexant SmartAudio was as great or better than my Dell Studio 15. 
I am not sure what the heck, Lenovo Research & Development department is doing to make W510 sound mediocre. As an end-user and W510 a mobile workstation, I would also expect the speaker/sound chip to be better than T400.
I have contacted the Lenovo Service Center, they said the final version of the driver is under testing and has not been released to their support website. But I think the soft audio volume problem could never be resolved unless Lenovo would release another version of internal speaker, but not possible as a refreshed version of W-series is coming up next year. (eg. W520)
Problem/bug listed out for the latest version of W510 Audio Driver
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W510-newest-driver-released-in-7-Oct-is-still-...
Best Regards
Peter
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