
anikevicius at gmail
May 15, 2012, 9:28 AM
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Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
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Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use. The noise can be described, as high pitched, sandy texture noise heard during more expressive parts of the music or speech. I experience this on two Thinkpads (x200s and x200) and it very evident when I connected external speakers, they produced a lot of this noise, or maybe I just could hear it better, because of the frequency response of the speakers. Does anybody have some similar issues? My current audio setup: * PulseAudio (but the problem is experienced with ALSA as well) * MPD for music playing * Conexant and other related modules compiled in, power-saving features enabled. What I have tried to eliminate the noise: * Various levels of Master,PCM,Headphone channels via Alsamixer * Increase the sample rate in MPD settings. The noise can be clearly head when I Have the following setting on my Alsamixer: * Master ~50 * PCM 100 * Headphone 100 Does anybody has any thoughts on why am I experiencing this? Thanks a lot, Ignas A.
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