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Subject: Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable
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Charles Ulrich wrote:

>I too had problems with a SoundBlaster Live card on a workstation running
>5.2.1. Sometimes the sound was nice and clean, but most of the time it was
>just horrible. Nothing I did had any noticable effect and the mailing lists
>unusually quiet on the issue, so I gave up. The emu10k1 cards are the best you
>can buy in their price range, and I didn't want to replace it. Since I needed
>the machine for sound work (recording and MIDI), I was forced to put Gentoo on
>it. YMMV.
>
>  
>
Could this be shared irq issue? Though, i have seen it only in windoze.

Different pci-slot might help.