Hi Guys, I'm glad t o read that there are other people with the same problem on the same system. I just opened my Tangent 8000S and it has indeed a MSI mainboard: MS7290. The speakers are connected to a small custom board: MS-4088 There's no extra chip on this customboard and the board is directly connected to the mainboard. So probably the signal leaving the mainboard in amplified already. (or there's a amplifier builtin the speakers) Next week i'll have some time to put tangent under some more pressure for info, so maybe that will speed up things a little bit. Grz Rene _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel