[rox-users] Sound Choice?

[Jim L. <jc...@au...>]

This is OT, so apologies for that, but I'd welcome comments/info on this as
it touches on my main reason for now using linux and ROX...

I've been trying to find out more about sound hardware compatability, but
what I've found thus far doesn't really deal with my concerns. Some linux
'compatability' websites and reviews do touch on if the sound hardware on a
given machine or card 'works' or 'works out of the box' but that isn't what
I wish to know.

Both the machines I am currently using 'played sounds' from almost the
first time I installed Ubuntu or Xubuntu. The problem was that the sound
data was being altered in ways that measurably degraded the output. The
most obvious manifestation was that CDDA material (or other 44.1ksample/sec
material) was output at 48ks/sec.

So what I'd like to know about any given hardware is: Does it actually
output the sound data at the *correct* sampling rate - i.e. follow the
source sampling rate, and does it provide bit-perfect output for 100%
volume settings when playing LPCM source material?

Does anyone actually check this and publish the results? If so, I've not
yet seen an example. I am curious to find out, but I've not seen results
like this as yet. Has anyone seen this and can point out a URL or a
magazine?

Slainte,

Jim

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