Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Audiophile 2496 underruns?

[Sergei S. <ste...@li...>]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:58:11 -0800
Jim McCloskey <mc...@uc...> wrote:

> 
> I wrote:
> 
>   |>  Sort of.  For the first 10 to 15 seconds of playback, the audio
>   |>  quality is everything that I had hoped for. At that point, though,
>   |>  clicks and pauses begin which gradually get worse until the track
>   |>  eventually becomes just a series of clicks. I believe that these are
>   |>  underrun problems, though aplay and alsaplayer have only occasionally
>   |>  reported actual underrun values. 
> 
> Before I waste anyone else's time on this ... This turned out not to
> be a problem with the Audiophile card or with the alsa driver. Much
> swapping out of different components revealed that it was a problem
> with (one channel of) the amplifier.
> 
> I apologize for the wasted bandwidth. The playback quality from this
> card under Alsa is just excellent.
> 
> Sheepishly,
> 
> Jim
> 

"Much swapping out of different components" means physical replacement,
changing in interconnect, etc. ?

I.e. you didn't mean swapping in its writing memory to disk <->
reading from disk to memory sense ?

Just want to make sure I understand English here.

Thanks,
  Sergei.