Audio quality worst than Win10

[brnghkmrs]

Hello friends, I can notice a lot of difference in my Kubuntu 17.10 audio in comparison to my win10, which is better. The bass quality in kubuntu is just horrible. I really wanna workaround this. My motherboard is Asus P8Z68-V (onboard audio).

Please help, I'm very new to linux, this is like my first distro.

[jglen490]

First, it's all about the driver and how it works with the audio card/chip, plus some audio applications are better than others. So it's not so much about Windows as it is someone who does Linux work for free, or as a side job. So in your Linux, in a terminal, input

inxi -Fxz

and post the results here, along with the audio application you are using.

[brnghkmrs]

First, it's all about the driver and how it works with the audio card/chip, plus some audio applications are better than others. So it's not so much about Windows as it is someone who does Linux work for free, or as a side job. So in your Linux, in a terminal, input

inxi -Fxz

and post the results here, along with the audio application you are using.

System: Host: 09321833 Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.10.5 (Qt 5.9.1) Distro: Ubuntu 17.10
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8Z68-V PRO v: Rev 1.xx serial: N/A
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0501 date: 05/09/2011
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-2600 (-HT-MCP-) arch: Sandy Bridge rev.7 cache: 8192 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 28022
clock speeds:max: 5900 MHz 1: 3502 MHz 2: 3502 MHz 3: 3502 MHz 4: 3502 MHz 5: 3502 MHz 6: 3502 MHz
7: 3502 MHz 8: 3502 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.5 ) drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.111 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2 Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-32-generic
Network: Card: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 628.1GB (1.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000AAKX size: 500.1GB temp: 40C
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: M4 size: 128.0GB temp: 0C
Partition:ID-1: / size: 51G used: 11G (22%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:40C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 251 Uptime: 5:35 Memory: 4520.6/16017.6MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.2.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.37

[brnghkmrs]

btw, I'm using soundcloud and youtube to listen to music (through Brave browser). But usually when I'm playing offline I use VLC. Thanks for the quick response!

[jglen490]

You can try Clementine or Amarok as an actual music player, as well as a music manager - although VLS SHOULD work also.

[woodsmoke]

A) to some extent, "sound quality" is "subjective".

B) this person had a long and storied experience with "sound cards".

Notice the word "card"

By and large it "seemed" to be a situation of

a) "fiddling" with stuff.
b) NVIDIA "seemed" to need "less fiddling"...

One has to remember that the "sound" is "analog" which is being conveted to "digital"

which is to a greater or lesser extent...

a) the "amount" of digital sampling"
b) the "amount" of digitial sampling in various parts of the "spectrum".

The "spectrum" is "assumed" to be a bell curve but it really is a "jagged edge" wave and also one has to deal with what is known as "RMS" Root Mean Square"...the "bell curve" is "chopped" to the square root of the "mean" of the "bell curve"...

given all that...

The HARDWARE... forces the "programmer" to "interpret" the output of the hardware into the "code"...

SO...WHY is woodsmoke wasting time and digits on this...

Welll

ASUS...is NOT a sound provider...ASUS "interprets" what the hardware provider provides for the hardware that is given to a "programmer" whether Windblows(tm) or "Linux(tm)" ...

It really would help ...not for your problem...but for the people who try to FIX this...to type some kind of "ctrl alt whatever" to determine just PARTICULARLY ..."who" is the hardware and software provider" for your device...

ASUS is not an audio provider...ASUS is hardware provider for people who provide hardware AND software for their "thing"...

so...yes... ASUS sent the "data" for the sound hardware and software for that hardware provider to Windblows(tm) ...FOR MONEY...

and it was PERFECT...for you...

Linux does not have access to that stuff...

IS THAT AN EXCUSE!!?? ummmm yes and no...

if someone much smarter than me does not respond...

I would greatly recommend that you try to "get things straight" and then post the information in a SEPARATE thread...

so that the Linux people can take YOUR INFORMATION and incorporate it into the "sound" part of ---Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/...

just a thought
woodsmoke

[MDuff]

I am with Teuinis on this. I had a new user complain of the sound coming out of his headphones when he started using Linux, I forget which version. My initial reaction was to install Pulseaudio-equalizer from the repositories.

It has quite a few pre-sets or you can play with all the channels to individualise it. The user found a setting that was pleasing and we had another happy user. By the way, settings are system wide but you can set up presets for any application if you want to and switch if you need to. He had a setting for streaming to his TV and another for when he was using headphones.

[MDuff]

You may have a corrupted confuguration file. It can be safely deleted and will rebuild itself. Here is from an instruction I sent to a user who had a problem. It fixed it for him.

Reset the pulse audio user Configuration
Pulse audio's user configuration file can become corrupted. Deleting it will generate a new one and should fix a problem of no sound. I cannot remember if it needs to be run with "sudo" but try it first and if it tells you you need to have administrator privileges, add sudo in front followed by a space.
On Ubuntu 13.04 ,and later, open a terminal session and enter the following command:

rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k

Copy and paste the command into a terminal.
The system must be re-started to rebuild the configuration files.

That is all there is to it. Hope it solves your problem.

[vinnywright]

Funny(?) thing is, I can't get that equaliser working on 17.10...

teunis@W520:~$ qpaeq
There was an error connecting to pulseaudio, please make sure you have the pulseaudio dbus module loaded, exiting...

first

pactl load-module module-equalizer-sink

then

pactl load-module module-dbus-protocol

,,,,,,now try the qpaeq again

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Sounds like you’ll be getting fitted for hearing aids soon. I’ve been wearing them for about 5 yrs and while they help you to hear better they don’t stop the deterioration of your hearing.


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[vinnywright]

Vinny, great advice!

Yes the equaliser works, yet I wonder why these modules don't load automagically.

It took a bit of fiddling to get the sound via the equaliser to the Dell USB sound bar instead of the internal speakers.

Regretfully the equaliser confirmed what the doctor said, above 8 KHz my hearing is dropping off fast...

you do not get privet messages ? ,,,I sent you one .

anyway to get the modules to load at boot "automagically" copy and past this at the end ,,,the very end of /etc/pulse/default.pa

### Load the integrated PulseAudio equalizer and D-Bus module
load-module module-equalizer-sink
load-module module-dbus-protocol

see hear https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...udio-equalizer

VINNY