Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > interpolators) makes the sound *much* worse, the voice is distorted and > > becomes "ringing". > > So, does your sound card actually support 44.1kHz audio out? > If not, ALSA may be doing a sample rate conversion from 44.1 > back to 48kHz and it might be that conversion which is making > a mess of things. I know there have been some bugs in the > ALSA sample rate converter recently. Thanks - this might be the problem. I will check by playing the files under Windows, and on another PC which likely does not have the 48k resampling. Unfortunately I do not have a working CD player now. BTW, does *your* card support 44.1k output, and perhaps even input? If yes, what is that card? I'm now interested in getting one that supports this stuff.