From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Wildgoose Subject: Re: rme 9632 crackling when sound > 0db Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:07:39 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <407A6A6B.2070201@wildgooses.com> References: <407A5F99.4040201@wildgooses.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from xunil.mail.wildgooses.com (xunil.mail.wildgooses.com [81.6.236.5]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA19720 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:07:50 +0200 Received: from localhost (Xunil [127.0.0.1]) by xunil.mail.wildgooses.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FB51707E2 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:07:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from wildgooses.com (unknown [192.168.105.1]) by xunil.mail.wildgooses.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F811707E1 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:07:40 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <407A5F99.4040201@wildgooses.com> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > > You can also simulate this simply by turning up the mixer controls so > that normal music starts to clip. Same effect. At risk of creating noise. Further experimentation shows that you need to set the output levels to +4db in hdspconf for this crackling to occur. So in fairness this could really be an overdriven output...? The -10dbv output level is significantly quieter than any other equipment that I own (I know it's what they call consumer output device level, but still...) Ed W ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click