Just for shits and grins try running it with a sample rate of 32k and let me know what happens. DuWayne On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 17:15, Tim Blechmann wrote: > > Tim, very interesting! > > i put a screenshot, amplified & zoomed-in with Audacity, here: > > > > http://www.volny.cz/guitar_billy/hdsp.screenshot.png > > > > i hope that others can say something useful by looking at the > > screenshot. i'm sure what to conclude as for cause of this behaviour. > > (by the way, is this a sample of "silence" recorded into your RME > > card???) > i got the response from rme's support that there is something wrong with > the sample frequency ... but they doubt that it's a problem of the card > itself ... > there are two possibilities then ... it's either a problem on the alsa > side or on the cardbus/pci side ... > > btw, playing with the settings of hdspconf the distortion seems to be > related to the spdif out _emphasis_ option ... it seems to sound softer > ... i'll try to create a sample/screen shot of it tomorrow... is this > option somehow related to the sample clock? > > take care... > > Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@xxxxxx > ICQ: 96771783 > -- > The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, > mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, > the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, > burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across > the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and > everybody goes "Awww!" > Jack Kerouac -- drh@xxxxxxxxxxx "It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa