[linux-audio-user] Re: [Ardour-users] Re: [Alsa-devel] usb audio sound quality

[Jesse Chappell]

Patrick Shirkey wrote on Sat, 09-Nov-2002:

 > 
 > jackd -v -R -a -d alsa -d quattro1 -r 44100 -H
 > 
 > and start an alsaplayer with the text interface things are fine. It 
 > seems that the more guis I have taking memory space the more degraded 
 > the sound quality is. I have looked into changing my irqs but they are 
 > set at 9 for the agp and 11 for the USB controller.
 
What is the nature of the quality degradation?  I assume that
no xruns are occurring in all cases... you are sensing
degradation that occurs with no obvious suspect?

jlc