Hi all, I have pulseaudio running on Ubuntu and send the sound digitally to a set of High end digital speakers. Since it is Hi-Fi, the work I'm doing involves ensuring wherever possible that the digital bits are not disturbed by the software systems the value is passing through - unless it has to be when the softphone rings. I did a simple test using pacat and parecord on the sink Monitor with a set of float32le tones representing a simple log sweep through the frequency range. Volumes were set to 100% across the entire chain. Yet when I checked the float values, they had been perturbed by a small amount. That got me thinking. Can pulseaudio maintain a 'clean path' throughout the entire software chain? I'm presuming that some sort of rounding or conversion internally has altered the float32le. Is there a representation that would be more likely to come through 'clean'? Additionally when I was doing a parec on the Monitor and used the 'float32ne' format it seemed to come out Big Endian on an Intel machine, which surprised me a little. Is that a bug or did I miss something? Thanks -- Neil Wilson
