While diagnosing my sound issues which I at first attributed to my new Creative T6100 speakers (yeah, they're pretty low end for surround systems), I found that the sound quality was still poor when I plugged in my headphones to the front audio port. Of course after that I started blaming the sound chip (Built in) but now I'm not so sure. I found that the more channels I setup in PulseAudio the worse the sound quality. With 2 channels the sound problem I'm having disappears, just normal hiss at high volume (amplification). When I up to the 4 channels I can hear the problem but it's pretty faint and at 6 channels it's very evident. The sound itself is a high pitch electronic distortion. There's probably a technical name for it but I'm not an audio engineer. The best way I can describe it is that it sounds similar to distortion you get from very low bitrate audio streams. So my question is: Is the problem my sound chip (hardware) or PulseAudio (software)? My plan is to buy an Asus Xonar DG[1] but I don't have a lot of disposable income to spend on this problem so I want to be fairly certain this will fix it. Thanks, Richard [1] http://www.buy.com/prod/asus-xonar-dg-sound-board-cmi8786-pci-24-bit-internal/q/loc/101/217036858.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
