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Bookshelf speakers sound worse on linux (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have a budget PC and edifier r1280t bookshelf speakers. From day 1 of building my PC about 6 months ago, I was using fedora. I also have a MacBook pro and soon I realised that the speakers sound much better when connected to MacBook pro. I always thought maybe my motherboard dac is not good enough to drive these speakers. But few days ago I installed windows 11 on separate disk as I have some work with windows and I immediately observed that the speakers also sound very good with my PC on windows. What can I do to improve sound quality on fedora? I connect the speakers directly to motherboard I/O at the back which reads "line out" in fedora

OS: fedora 38 CPU: 4600g GPU: rx 580 16GB RAM Motherboard: ASRock b450m

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[–] Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

I use a Topping DX1 DAC with Fedora for sending sound to my soundbar. It's great.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Windows and MacOS probably do some EQ by default.

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

I had problems with my bookshelf because when I switch to Linux too.

I had static, audio drop off, volume issues, bad quality.

If you want good sound off of Linux then you have to develop a deep intimate understanding of pulse audio and ALSA. It's very hard to share the problems that you're having with audio on web forums, so there's not much help you can get here. I spent good month or two kicking pulse audio until it worked, you might have to go through the same.