Note : I figured out my problems while writing this email, but I am posting anyway in case it can help others.
I recently bought Logitech Z-560 speakers and I was at first deceived by them. I am using Debian and ALSA-0.9rc1 and MP3s were playing with too much bass... Then I tried a CD. Suprise -- it played just fine. Without the boomy bass I heard with MP3s. I rebooted to Windows. Surprise also -- MP3s seemed just fine. I then looked for a decent alsa mixer and I finally found "alsamixer" from alsa-utils. Great color console program -- but I do not know what half of the mixer settings do :) After some experimentation I figured out that I could actually use my rear speakers by using the "Wave Surround" slider. Great! I also figured out that my boomy bass was caused by the "Tone" slider being muted. A press on "m" on the keyboard got rid of the problem -- and enabled the "Bass" and "Treble" sliders. The only problem was that it sounded more flat now, specially when "Bass" and "Treble" are at 0%. I then realized that Tone muted == Bass and Treble to 50%. (Can somebody confirm?) So for now I set Bass = 35% and Treble = 50%. MUCH better :) Hope this email helped somebody. Guillaume Pratte ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
