Mac Poor sound (heavily compressed, thin and tinny)

nebuar · Post by **nebuar** » Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:36 am

I have just installed Mint (21.3 xfce) on an imac (early 2009 24")

When running on Mac OSX the sound was rich and powerful, easily filling a small room and sounding great for movies or music. Now it is on Mint the sound is compressed, has poor dynamic range and, well, just sounds awful - everything sounds like a really badly compressed pirate video file...

I have searched the forums and found no real explanation of this, nor any any suggestions for fixing it. I'm guessing it is something to do with audio codecs and / or compatibility with the sound card? Any suggestions?

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-97-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
    tk: Gtk 3.24.33 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac8,1 v: 1.0 
  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F227BEC8 v: PVT
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo E8435 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported>
    arch: Core Yorkfield rev: 6 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 6 MiB
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-97-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

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