Creative Inspire 5300 -> bad quality on front speakers

phate

Hello out there.

I have a "Creative Inspire 5300" sound system which with 5 satellites and one subwoofer
Everything is okay with it excepting one issue: both front speakers have very bad quality in linux!

When I boot Windows they are okay, but with ALSA in Linux it is awful. Either I put PCM down and they are VERY quiet, or the sound volume is okay and quality is bad (cracking).

What to do? :-/
I tried playing arround with different alsa-mixers for a long time, without success.

further information:
- emu10k1 soundchip
- alsa compiled in 2.6.7 gentoo-sources kernel

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

have you tried out the Eq-plugin for xmms? http://www.gentoo-portage.com/s?search=xmms

This thread might help alsohttps://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=262456&highlight=
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phate · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject:

I am not speaking of xmms!! It's a general problem.
Btw I use Rhythmbox as muisc player.

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

had you mentioned rhythmbox i wouldn't have offered any xmms solutions!!
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phate · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject:

as I told you, it's a general problem.
well, I think it's much better now, thanx for the link.

it seems like bass is not allowed to be more than 40% or so

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

ah.. i see.. well your post actually piqued my interest in rhythmbox. I am going to research its functions and possible use to me. Thanks.
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phate · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject:

it's something like an iTunes-clone for linux, a really good one I think.

http://www.rhythmbox.org