Hi Al! Thanks for the nice criticism. Sometimes even I would like a bit more crispy sounds, I'm trying and working on it. I myself use SuSE 8.1, heavily modified. I installed all the audio software I use from source-tarballs and I'm running my own kernel. It works wonderful for me. A lot better at least, than a lot of newer systems I know in my own environment. Funny isn't it? And in the field of sound I'm up to date. :-) It's really nice, having system since 2002 and it's still working without major problems. In fact even without minor ones. But did you try CCRMA? I heard they're good and should run out of the box. I also had occasion to listen to the Flower Kings live 2004 in Paderborn. Brilliant! Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de