[LAU] Intel-hda jack low latency howto

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Arnold Krille at 2008-11-03 18:57...
> One of the design decisions of the hda is to support 48 kHz for DVD. And to 
> make it simple they only support 48kHz in hardware. While you can open the 
> device with lower samplingrates this will get resampled to 48kHz either by 
> the driver or the chip. And as you don't know what quality that resampling 
> algorithm has (remember the only thing "high" in the hda is the name), you 
> will want to use 48kHz from start to end and only downsample to 41kHz 
> directly before creating the cd master. Which has the advantage that you can 
> use the fine libsamplerate instead...

Interesting.  I wonder, does it explain this?

Whilst I use fully external ADC/DACs for music use, with the HDA card 
disabled, for everyday use - which means Skype since I don't do any 
other sort of everyday audio - I use a Zoom H2 as my microphone/input 
sound card and have headphones plugged into the on-board HDA.

If I have the H2 set to sample at its default of 44.1ksps, playing back 
my voice on a Skype test call, I sound like someone who should be 
guarding a hareem ;-)  Setting the H2 to sample at 48ksps, I sound my 
<cough/> "normal" self.

Would it just be at the receiving end of the loop that my voice is 
pitch-shifting, or is there some funny re-sampling going on in the Skype 
software?

I'm just so glad that I tested the sound before calling a client!

Cheers

M

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