I have a dual boot Manjaro/Windows 10. In Windows, My sound is good but it’s not the case with Manjaro and I don’t understand why. I read other topics on the forum without find a solution for me.
This is my actual /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out. Use either ; or # for
## commenting.
; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; enable-memfd = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11
; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5
; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
; resample-method = speex-float-1
; avoid-resampling = false
; enable-remixing = yes
; remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes
; remixing-produce-lfe = no
; remixing-consume-lfe = no
; lfe-crossover-freq = 0
; flat-volumes = no
; rescue-streams = yes
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 200000
default-sample-format = s24le
default-sample-rate = 19200
alternate-sample-rate = 96000
default-sample-channels = 2
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25
; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
and the result of the command “sudo alsa-info.sh --upload”:
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If PulseAudio is configured to resample audio up to 192kHz or 96kHz the resample-method should also be adjusted
I suggest you add either
resample-method = speex-float-4
or this
resample-method = soxr-hq
to PulseAudio configuration daemon.conf
(sox resampler allegedly has better audio quality than speex but can add about 20mS latency to audio stream)
Manjaro does not have any of the tweaks and audio enhancements that may have been added to the Realtek driver in Windows
IMO audio quality is uncomfortably flat for general audio use and needs (at least) an equalizer to adjust the frequency response – pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa
This system is using twice as much power and has additional upward facing tweeters. But a lot of the extra audio performance may be from driver enhancements, Smart Amp Technology and Dolby Atmos processing.
If a Windows user could turn off all the extra software and driver enhancements that would give a comparable audio quality to a default Linux installation with no processing
Considering the small size of the laptop speakers you need more than just an equalizer
I suggest you replace pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa with Viper4Linux
maybe there is a specific driver for my speakers ?
There are no alternative drivers for this device
Headphones and speakers use a shared output device on the ALC285 audio codec
using the ‘snd_hda_intel’ driver
I installed kde manjaro because I had a other issue with xfce. I’ll try your suggestion tomorrow, sorry for the time I took to answer, I was busy this week end. Thanks for the suggestion