[LAU] How much does my new SB Extigy suck and why?

[Lee Revell]

On 9/5/07, Bearcat M. Sandor <HomeTheater at feline-soul.com> wrote:
> Chip,
>
> Thank you. The would explain the harshness i am hearing too. It actually
> hurts. I have to turn the volume way down from where i usually listen, and
> i don't listen that loud anyway. I mean, granted i now it's not gonna
> sound like a high-end product but this is ridiculous.
>
> I suppose they are only testing on computer desktop speakers where you
> wouldn't even hear the grain.

No they assume Windows which does decent quality resampling in kernel-space.

The long term solution IMHO is for ALSA to select a higher quality
resampler by default.

Short term solution is to use an app that does its own high quality
resampling and always run the card at 48Khz.

Lee