I experience the same. pulseaudio -vv reports underrun:
D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 65536 bytes. D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Limited to 64992 bytes. D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: before: 16248 D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: after: 16248 D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Rewound 64992 bytes. D: [alsa-sink] sink.c: Processing rewind... D: [alsa-sink] sink.c: latency = 247 D: [alsa-sink] sink-input.c: Have to rewind 64992 bytes on render memblockq. D: [alsa-sink] source.c: Processing rewind... D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: [alsa-sink] sink-input.c: Requesting rewind due to uncorking D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 65536 bytes. D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Limited to 14436 bytes. D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: before: 3609 D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: after: 3609 D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Rewound 14436 bytes. D: [alsa-sink] sink.c: Processing rewind... D: [alsa-sink] sink.c: latency = 292 D: [alsa-sink] source.c: Processing rewind... I'm runnig Ubuntu precise (development branch). ALSA Information Script: http://www.alsa- project.org/db/?f=f8df81ab49bc67d9c4bce66c53b1ec12f447e6f7 I have tried all the suggestions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure and here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/PositionReporting No luck so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908325 Title: [94503HG, Analog Devices AD1981, Green Line Out, Left] Underruns, dropouts or crackling sound To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/908325/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs