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Using USB soundcard makes distortion

How could I avoid to get distortion when using the USB soundcard? With the internal one there is not any distortion.

Using USB soundcard makes distortion

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Quote from: Cletus on
How could I avoid to get distortion when using the USB soundcard? With the internal one there is not any distortion.


That was not very specific. Wild guess:
Preferences -> Playback, and under ReplayGain, Processing: choose one of the two options that prevent clipping according to peak?

Using USB soundcard makes distortion

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i'm curious as to how this usb soundcard behaves with other applications? does everything else work fine and it's just foobar that is the problem?
 

Using USB soundcard makes distortion

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Many thanks.

Sorry for being unspecific. The settings I had up to now for the internal soundcard without hearing any distortion using the internal soundcard: http://i.imgur.com/F6ycaiw.png
There were 2 Internet radio stations I heard with slightly distorted sound (using the 12 $ USB soundcard) and I tried some mp3s, they were distorted also. Changing the playback settings didn't help. Aimp plays the mp3s, the radio stations without distortion, I would say. It appears, that foobar is the only application with distorted sound. Yes, everything else seems to work fine...or...at the moment Aimp sounds distorted, too. When I have started to use the USB soundcard I have had to turn down the volume of the Hifi amplifier, because of such a buzzing sound, which has disappeared then. Now the USB soundcard causes about the same volume (with turned down volume control) like the internal soundcard.

Might there be a preamplification that causes the distortion?

Many thanks again.