On 2010-05-07 15:47, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:01 +0200, David Bj?rkevik wrote: *snip* >> * With such a card, if I disable the alsa mixer and just use software >> mixing in PulseAudio, will the full 24 bit depth be utilized, >> effectively causing little or no degradation on sound quality when >> playing back a 16 bit sample? > > Yes. (Btw, whatever you mean by "disable the alsa mixer", that's most > likely something you don't have to care about, if your Pulseaudio is set > up in the normal way.) > Just for clarification: By "disable the alsa mixer" I mean adding the "control=" parameter to module-alsa-sink. This causes the module to not touch the alsa mixer, and revert to software mixing. Sadly, in my experience, the alsa mixing rarely works flawlessly. Regards David
