On Tue, 18.12.07 08:37, Richi Plana (richip at richip.dhs.org) wrote: > > I tried experimenting a bit, playing sounds at different sample rates > > (44100 and 48000) using mplayer, to no avail. > > > > Is there any way to test what is causing this and if it is PulseAudio? > > Is there a simple way to override PA and play audio via ALSA > > snd-hda-intel drivers? > > Alright, it MAY not be PA. I tried playing music from a virtual console > using oss as the output device and it still sounded horrible. > > One thing I did discover, however, was that when I turned up the Master > volume setting and minimized the PCM volume setting, the audio quality > improved tremendously. There seems to be some kind of attenuation going > on when PCM controls are used. Why that is, I've no idea. This sounds like one of those issues were 100% in the mixer means over-amplification. Try to lower it to 70% or suchlike. Also see this post of mine: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2007-December/001042.html Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4