On 06/15/2011 03:23 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > 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 I would not do anything until you remove other interference causing items. I would start with any wall warts that you might have plugged in or anything like that. I have seen those cause all types of issues when they are going bad and plugged in near a PC. -- 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
