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

Hmmm.... Now I think I recall something. It's rather vaige, but might be a clue: On the SBLive, the sound was awful (kinda like you describe it), after I'd first install Linux. According to something I found on google, I had to switch off some tone controller in the mixer. Not shure if it showes up in the standard gnome/kde/etc mixers, but try with alsamixer or alsamixergui to see all of the controls. As far as I remember it was a switch with needed to be turned off, not a slidebar. And it had something to do with tone control (bass/treble). The problem had to do with the bass/treble being at max by default, as far as I recall.