New subject: Distorted sound

15 Dec 2020

Sir, I spent 8 dollars on that soundcard, and you called it "garbage". 
How dare you? It even has 3D stereo. Yes, you read that right. 3. D.

In reality though, the 3d stereo claims are just for marketing. The 
stereo image sounds normal.

On 12/14/20 4:42 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

...
  Brandon Hale &lt;bthaleproductions(a)gmail.com&gt;
writes:

  One last thing you can try, if the headphone jack
still doesn't work
 after a fresh install, is getting a cheap usb audio soundcard. It will
 have less noise and give you a reliable dac in the future on
 Linux. Here

<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IRVQ0F8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1>
 is one that I have personally used that has saved my life a number of
 times.  I'd be wary about the "3D stereo" thing.  My own
"garbage for the win"
 sound card looks like this:

 Yes, those are 3.5mm connectors.  I think the line input is dead by now
 (but mic inputs can be misused well enough) and the soundcard mixer is
 such a mess that I haven't gotten the headphone output to work under
 Windows (but abusing the front 2.1 output by using a headphone in it
 works reasonably).  The latency is suboptimal and I think it cuts off
 around 15kHz.  Backside has an optical S/PDIF input and an output.

 Another option worth considering are handheld recorders: those tend to
 have a "soundcard mode" as well.  Unfortunately, with my Zoom H2
 recorder I haven't found a way to use recording (built-in mics or
 external) and playback (headphone or line output) at the same time
 without the input unconditionally also appearing at the output.
 Undesirable for the application I was considering it for (Jamulus).

 Possibly newer models fare better in that regard.

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