On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 05:39:08PM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: > Of late I am getting some amount of hiss from my speakers. > I believe its a software problem because it is absent at startup and > audibly starts sometime during the boot process. > > My system is fairly vanilla h/w -- ordinary Intel desktop with builtin > soundcard, ordinary speakers. > > The only non-vanilla things maybe some things I installed when playing > around with a TASCAM How on earth can anybody help you if you give so little information. * Do you have active speakers (built-in amplifier) or is there an amplifier in between the sound card and the speakser ? If so, which input are you using ? How are things connected ? * Using ALSA/Jack/Pulse ?? * TASCAM is a brand name. They are hundreds if not thousands of different things with that name on it. So what is 'a TASCAM', and what did you install for playing around ? Apart from that, hiss is usually the result of either - something broken, - or using the wrong inputs, - or a volume control set too high. Another cause could be the mic inputs of your sound card routed to the outputs. Check the mixer. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
