Torus
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Hi everyone,
I discovered ASR a while ago now, which led me to buy the TempoTec Sonata HD Pro(still in v.3.0 since I don't know how to upgrade it to 3.3.1), which I've coupled with my HD6XXs. This has been my entry setup for a year now, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. I've been using it on an old HP laptop with Beats Audio(turned off) in Windows 10, and it sounds really good overall. I haven't done too much tweaking like using ASIO/WASAPI and all that, but it seems to sound good nonetheless.
Booting up into Linux though, is a different story. I'm using elementary OS 6 Odin(Ubuntu 20.04). It sounds fine, but kinda grainy, everything is more forward and not as open. I just prefer the sound quality on Windows. I've done most the steps to modify the audio settings, with the exception of keeping the resampling method to speex-float-10, and I think it may have sounded richer and fuller, but not sure. It still didn't sound as open as Windows, like the soundstage wasn't really there at all.
I did a little more reading and saw that the CS43131 chip that my Sonata HD Pro was listed in the new support for the CS43130 driver in Linux Kernel 5.15rc6. I installed that version, and I think it did sound a bit better, but wasn't quite there. I then installed PipeWire, the replacement for Pulseaudio, and it did get even closer to Windows in quality, but still not exactly the same. I figured I would try PipeWire because we're all gonna be switching to that eventually.
Is it true that there are differences in sound quality in USB DACs in different OS's? I thought USB was universal, and it meant plug and play. Anyone here have a similar experience, and is there a high quality USB DAC that works as well in Linux like it does in Windows?
I discovered ASR a while ago now, which led me to buy the TempoTec Sonata HD Pro(still in v.3.0 since I don't know how to upgrade it to 3.3.1), which I've coupled with my HD6XXs. This has been my entry setup for a year now, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. I've been using it on an old HP laptop with Beats Audio(turned off) in Windows 10, and it sounds really good overall. I haven't done too much tweaking like using ASIO/WASAPI and all that, but it seems to sound good nonetheless.
Booting up into Linux though, is a different story. I'm using elementary OS 6 Odin(Ubuntu 20.04). It sounds fine, but kinda grainy, everything is more forward and not as open. I just prefer the sound quality on Windows. I've done most the steps to modify the audio settings, with the exception of keeping the resampling method to speex-float-10, and I think it may have sounded richer and fuller, but not sure. It still didn't sound as open as Windows, like the soundstage wasn't really there at all.
I did a little more reading and saw that the CS43131 chip that my Sonata HD Pro was listed in the new support for the CS43130 driver in Linux Kernel 5.15rc6. I installed that version, and I think it did sound a bit better, but wasn't quite there. I then installed PipeWire, the replacement for Pulseaudio, and it did get even closer to Windows in quality, but still not exactly the same. I figured I would try PipeWire because we're all gonna be switching to that eventually.
Is it true that there are differences in sound quality in USB DACs in different OS's? I thought USB was universal, and it meant plug and play. Anyone here have a similar experience, and is there a high quality USB DAC that works as well in Linux like it does in Windows?