On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 21:29 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: > > But the most intriguing part of the whole story: Not only did the noise > > get louder at a lower latency, it also seemed to precisely double its > > frequency when running at halve the number of frames. I even tried to > > measure the frequency of the noise. As far as I remember, when running > > jack for instance at 44100Hz, periodsize 32, the noise was at exactly > > 44100/32 = 1378Hz! > > That is absolutely fascinating. I WILL investigate this; if it > coincides, we have a VERY strong case that this is the same problem. Really sounds like you have a singing capacitor. IOW your problem is cheap hardware. If this is the case, you won't be able to fix it. Lee