Re: [gentoo-user] Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:34:21 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like. This happens whether I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 09:34:21PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote Hello, My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like. This happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Eliminate hardware failure as a cause by trying it from a live CD. Neil, Thank you. I tried with a xubuntu 12.04 64bit live cd. There was no problem. I conclude that there is no problem with my hardware. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: At the risk of starting a flamewar, did you recently install a sound server (e.g. pulseaudio/phonon/whatever)? Can you temporarily disable it and see how the sound comes out? Walter, Thank you for your tip. This is

[gentoo-user] Poor sound quality

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like. This happens whether I am listening a beautiful song or whether I'm listening to