Question for the SB Audigy users...

[Quake]

Don't know if its in the right thread but...

I have the Logitech Z-640 (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2,CONTENTID=5047) and for some reason, the bass doesn't blend well with the music like in Windows. I tried adjusting the bass, treble and other options in alsamixer but the bass still sound awful. Anyone else has this issue?

[kleeman]

I had a problem very like this with the Audigy 2 card and the Logitech Z-5300 speakers (5.1 system). I was able to solve it by ugrading the warty alsa libraries from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 (work has been done to improve Audigy 2 support recently in alsa). The packages you need to upgrade are:

alsa-base 1.0.6a-11
alsa-utils 1.0.6-4

You can find these by googling "alsa-base ubuntu" etc.

Sound now sounds great although I had to turn down the base a bit (my wife threatened divorce ;-))

[Quake]

Nice, I installed Alsa 1.0.7 and the sound quality is much better now... even better than windows ;)
Thanks for the help.

[macewan]

Nice, I installed Alsa 1.0.7 and the sound quality is much better now... even better than windows ;)
Thanks for the help.
this from source at alsa-project?

[Quake]

this from source at alsa-project?

Nope, From Debian unstable