Hi Christian, I'm also pretty sure that the level in hardy is generally lower than it was on gutsy. It may be due to Pulse Audio. Shutting it down might help. I also noticed that some alsa levels are set to about 80% by default, but I don't know if it's safe to turn them all the way up. In general, high levels should be achieved by gear that comes after the computer, not inside it. If you're as poorly equipped as me, that's not possible. I did turn up the alsa-levels all the way, and that's quite o.k, most of the time. Good luck Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user