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To those of you who are listening to hi-rez audio on Ubuntu and derivatives

Make sure you change your PulseAudio settings.

By default, everything is converted to 44.1kHz 16-bit before sending to output device.

Extracted from my vanilla Ubuntu system:

$ pacmd
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
>>> stat
Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 28, size: 1.6 MiB.
Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Total sample cache size: 0 B.
Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default source name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/7 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/21 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.



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Topic - To those of you who are listening to hi-rez audio on Ubuntu and derivatives - Christine Tham 15:17:00 11/29/10 (39)

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