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

  • electromage@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What do you mean by “better”? Sound is very subjective, can you try to be more specific?

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      1 year ago

      I definitely recommend a blind test, the power of expectations can be overwhelming when judging audio

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        1 year ago

        Yup. People often start fussing over bit depths and sample rates, but more often than not it’s something as simple as a difference in volume.