<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> Hi folks, I have a question about my microphone audio quality when participating in a browser-based video conference, i.e., Google Meet and Jitsi on chromium browser. Starting last week, I have received numerous reports from coworkers that my audio is considerably higher quality than normal. Although my audio input has always been a high end vocal mic, the reports have indicated that I sound even better than I usually do in these conferences. My daily driver machine is a self-built Xeon workstation running Arch Linux with (I think) a well-configured RT kernel and JACK2, whose configuration if optimized for USB audio interfaces via <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface">this guide</a> [0]. I use a Peluso mic connected directly to my RME Babyface Pro interface, which is running via one of my system's USB2 ports. In pursuit of understanding why this is occurring, I looked at my JACK2 settings to see if I'd changed anything lately. Sure enough, I noticed that I have been working at a larger JACK2 hardware buffer size than normal. I typically set my size to 64 since I do a lot of real-time audio work, but have had it set to 256 or 512 lately to do some different kinds of stuff on the system. So, my question boils down to: is it reasonable to suspect the hardware buffer size has something to do with these sudden quality improvement reports from my friends & co-workers? If so, any insights into why this is the case would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Andrew [0] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface">https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface</a> </body> </html>