In Reply to: RE: Tuning Linux/MPD/Alsa for best sound on ALIX processor posted by phofman on June 16, 2012 at 00:29:28:
It is very hard to say. I'll have to arrange some kind of A/B test. I am getting very good sound. Between the new OS and the buffer/period settings its too soon to know if I have simply imagined it. I certainly had very noticable effects in windows by reducing polling frequency, so I may well be predisposed to imagine an improvement here. It would not be the first time.
Strangely I receive no error setting to 100. After issuing modprobe, I cycled MPD. Sounds like I should have power cycled the DAC??
Thanks for the tip. I found your observations on this topic at diyaudio informative:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/93315-linux-audio-way-go-92.html
Do you have other references I should read?
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