Re: [Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-27 Thread chris hermansen
Clemens and list; I responded to this on Friday but inadvertently not to the list. My apologies. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > chris hermansen wrote: >> hw:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=2 >> SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530, Multichannel Capture/PT Playback >> hw:CARD=Audigy2,

Re: [Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
chris hermansen wrote: > hw:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=2 > SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530, Multichannel Capture/PT Playback > hw:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=3 > SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530, Multichannel Playback Try if playing to one of those works. Regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-23 Thread chris hermansen
Clemens and list; On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > chris hermansen wrote: >> It appears the rate may be ok, but that the word size is converted to 16 >> bits. >> >> here is definitinon of hw:2,0 from aplay -L > > Are there other devices listed by "aplay -l"? Here is th

Re: [Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
chris hermansen wrote: > It appears the rate may be ok, but that the word size is converted to 16 bits. > > here is definitinon of hw:2,0 from aplay -L Are there other devices listed by "aplay -l"? > I had thought that if I selected the hw:x,y device there was > no way to change volume on things

Re: [Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-22 Thread chris hermansen
Clemens, list: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > chris hermansen wrote: >> I think I am getting the music resampled somewhere along the way. > > Check in /proc/asound/card2/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params what the actual > rate is. It appears the rate may be ok, but that the word si

Re: [Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
chris hermansen wrote: > I think I am getting the music resampled somewhere along the way. Check in /proc/asound/card2/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params what the actual rate is. > I can use alsamixer to change the volume of the output What does this have to do with resampling? > the slider called S/PDIF opt

[Alsa-user] creative audigy 2 zs notebook - bit perfect?

2012-11-21 Thread chris hermansen
Good people; I am using an older laptop running Ubuntu 12.10 to serve music via mpd and alsa to a Schiit Bifrost DAC. I would like this to be "bit perfect", ie, a 192kHz/24bit music file on the computer is passed without alteration to the DAC for decoding. Originally I had connected the pc and t