Interested to find you how this works out. I also have problems hearing the 34401A beep, noting particularly that it's very dependent on my head position. I guess one possibility is to try to emulate that fluke behaviour by adding a different piezo in paralllel, resonant at a harmonic of the first one.
Or perhaps replacing the simple piezo with a self-oscillating one which will then operate at a mixture of the two frequencies.
Well, the problem with the self sounding ones is that they only use DC voltage in order to work. In the schematic, you can see that you always have +5Vdc (without any induced pulse, until you are in continuty mode and short the leads; then the voltage drops to around +2.7Vdc, but with the added square wave at 50% duty cycle). So, having +5Vdc constantly there, the self sounding piezo indicator will sound at all times!. That's the reason why we need to amplify this level (when modulated with the square wave, of course).
Remember the beep is also used when starting ut the DMM, etc.
EDIT: BTW, I also own a fantastic 121GW, and it has the same problem; the beep sounds very little. I need to make a test, because it has a 56 ohm resistor in series. Maybe jumping this resistor the beep level will increase a bit...or maybe not.
The problem is that this transducers are very directional, not to mention the fact that they are mounted inside of the device (and sometimes with another layer, like in the 121GW), so they are very covered. As I told before, only some of my Flukes are audible, even inside theis pouches. Well, you know...65 year old and still alive...and kickin!
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