How to improve improve quality of audio in Linux

[David Fox]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> Hmmm, I recently renewed my motherboard, and with it came a new sound
> chip: out the old AC97, welcome to the RealTek ALC888 !

I did as well - from a 7 year old Asus to an ECS, with AMD64. I was
using Sound Blaster Live for the last 7 years, and now I'm using the
on board sound (nvidia hca or something) that comes with that
motherboard, and no longer using the SB. One of the first things I
noticed was that the sound volume most of the time is lower than it
was on the SB, but other than that sound works well. I don't use
pulseaudio at all, to my knowledge - haven't even set it up. ALSA
here.


> I have amplified loudspeaker, set to 100% amplification, all controls
> in the volumle control panels set to the max, and that only gives an

Here, I have the output of the sound "card" (header really) going out
through cables to the in jack on my big stereo - the same way I've
done it for years. Before, I had a pair of amplified computer
speakers, but there were too many shorts and I had bad audio.

> Vince