poor sound quality

[boka]

When I boot my laptop, I experience awful sound quality from my headphones (i’ve tried to switch to a different headphones, but this did’t help). But if I unplug and plug in the headphones, it fixes the problem.
The default sound test on Fedora Linux works fine, even with headphones.
My default laptop speaker works fine.
I also noticed that if I run “pactl list short sinks” and then, for example, “pactl suspend-sink 51 1”, it partially fixes the problem.
i also had this problem on linux mint

[Malnutrition]

I am not a Linux user, but found this on google. Honestly have no idea if this will help. I’ll tag a couple people to see if they have input. jmarket @Bruce @PeterOz

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

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Edit:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65246/change-pulseaudio-input-output-from-shell

https://commandmasters.com/commands/pactl-common/

DEFAULT_SINK=$(pactl list short sinks | grep RUNNING | awk ‘{print $1}’)
if [ -z “$DEFAULT_SINK” ]; then

fi

pactl suspend-sink “$DEFAULT_SINK” 1
sleep 1
pactl suspend-sink “$DEFAULT_SINK” 0

[boka]

I am not a Linux user, but found this on google. Honestly have no idea if this will help. I’ll tag a couple people to see if they have input. @jmarket @Bruce @PeterOz

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

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Edit:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65246/change-pulseaudio-input-output-from-shell

DEFAULT_SINK=$(pactl list short sinks | grep RUNNING | awk ‘{print $1}’)
if [ -z “$DEFAULT_SINK” ]; then

fi

pactl suspend-sink “$DEFAULT_SINK” 1
sleep 1
pactl suspend-sink “$DEFAULT_SINK” 0

i’ve tried this
if I run “pactl list short sinks” and then, for example, “pactl suspend-sink 51 1”, it partially fixes the problem. Partially means that the sound before this commands is awful, and after it is better, but still sounds like it’s coming from a barrel.
A full fix happens only if I physically reconnect the headphones. It would be great if there were a way to do this from the terminal. However, I would like to resolve this issue fully without using a workaround.

[jmarket]

Hello,

What distro are you using? Can you post a pic of your fastfetch or neofetch?

[boka]

Hello,

What distro are you using? Can you post a pic of your fastfetch or neofetch?

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[jmarket]

Let’s try this. Let’s run this command:

[CODE=bash]mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

cp /usr/share/pipewire/*.conf ~/.config/pipewire

chown $USER ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf[/CODE]

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.

[boka]

Let’s try this. Let’s run this command:

[CODE=bash]mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

cp /usr/share/pipewire/*.conf ~/.config/pipewire

chown $USER ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf[/CODE]

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.

I tried adding it to both pulse.properties and pulse.rules, but there is no effect.

[boka]

Let’s try this. Let’s run this command:

[CODE=bash]mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

cp /usr/share/pipewire/*.conf ~/.config/pipewire

chown $USER ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf[/CODE]

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.

for some reason default fedora sound test works well
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but any other audio is bad.

i started speaker-test -t wav -c 6 and here is the output from pavucontrol:
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The sound from spotify and from speaker-test uses the same port, but sound from spotify (or any other audio) is bad. If after replugging headphones everything works fine

[boka]

Let’s try this. Let’s run this command:

[CODE=bash]mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

cp /usr/share/pipewire/*.conf ~/.config/pipewire

chown $USER ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf[/CODE]

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.

i also noticed that if i set balance to smth like this:
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or
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sound is much better, but it is still dull

[Bruce]

@boka - any improvement in the last few days?

[boka]

@boka - any improvement in the last few days?

not really,i just plug in headphones only when i need them

[Bruce]

And when plugged in, the headphones are still crap?

[boka]

And when plugged in, the headphones are still crap?

No, i have the problem with sound only after boot/reboot. if the headphones were connected while booting, the sound is bad. Only reconnecting the headphones fixes this problem. If the headphones were not connected when the system was booted and I connected them after, the sound works as it should

[Bruce]

jmarket - any other Linux ideas?

[Bruce]

Looks like your work-around solution will have to do, for now.