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

[Patrick Shirkey]

Jesse Chappell wrote:
>
> I guess my real question is: exactly what is happening to the sound
> (in your qualitative estimation) when it is degraded?  
> 

Cleeecks and pawps :)

It starts with the high volume areas getting distorted the more full the 
sound is. After a while (say 6 or 7 hours of heavy playback) everything 
becomes distorted clicks and pops. This is retained even if I stop and 
restart JACK. At first I thought it was a driver memory leak but the way 
that it happens seems to be standard behaviour for the kernel memory 
management process.



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