Quoth Arnold Krille at 2008-11-03 18:57... > One of the design decisions of the hda is to support 48 kHz for DVD. And to > make it simple they only support 48kHz in hardware. While you can open the > device with lower samplingrates this will get resampled to 48kHz either by > the driver or the chip. And as you don't know what quality that resampling > algorithm has (remember the only thing "high" in the hda is the name), you > will want to use 48kHz from start to end and only downsample to 41kHz > directly before creating the cd master. Which has the advantage that you can > use the fine libsamplerate instead... Interesting. I wonder, does it explain this? Whilst I use fully external ADC/DACs for music use, with the HDA card disabled, for everyday use - which means Skype since I don't do any other sort of everyday audio - I use a Zoom H2 as my microphone/input sound card and have headphones plugged into the on-board HDA. If I have the H2 set to sample at its default of 44.1ksps, playing back my voice on a Skype test call, I sound like someone who should be guarding a hareem ;-) Setting the H2 to sample at 48ksps, I sound my <cough/> "normal" self. Would it just be at the receiving end of the loop that my voice is pitch-shifting, or is there some funny re-sampling going on in the Skype software? I'm just so glad that I tested the sound before calling a client! Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
