On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:18:59PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote: > I'm observing strange audio artefacts with my audio driver which seem to > be related to audio material overamplification. IOW, the effect is only > audible at waveform peaks. When I attenuate the playback volume > pavucontrol, things get a lot worse - horrible distortion all over > the place, even in more quite audio sections. > > Also, when comparing the audio output of 'aplay -Dpulse foo.wav' with > 'aplay -Dplughw foo.wav', it is clearly audible that PA adds some kind > of amplification to the material (I would guess ~3dB), even though all > GUI accessible levels are set to 100%. Just for the records: this is fixed now in upstream git. Thanks a lot! Daniel
