It looks like the parameter master for module-combine doesn't work, it gives an error upon loading the module. Only listing all the sinks under slaves works though. I wanted to update the documentation on http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-combine, but am not sure about the details. Is it just that specifying the master isn't necessary anymore? Without choosing a master sink the sample rate/type isn't correctly chosen. I found this out when I combined three 48000 Hz sinks and saw that the combined sink was somehow chosen to be the default 44100. With only a listing of sinks under slaves it is not always obvious which rate must be choosen, bute surely with three identical sinks the sample rate/type of the combined sink should be the same. Maarten