poor sound quality

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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
 
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

PipeWire - ArchWiki

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Change PulseAudio Input/Output from Shell?

I have a set of nice wireless headphones which I use from time to time, in addition to my speakers and normal microphone. I'd like to write a script to switch between one input and output source and
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How to use the command pactl (with examples)

Pactl is a command-line tool used to control a running PulseAudio sound server. It allows users to manage audio sinks, change default audio outputs, adjust volumes, and toggle mute. This article provides examples of various use cases of the pactl command.
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Code: 
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
 
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Malnutrition said:
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

PipeWire - ArchWiki

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Edit:

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Change PulseAudio Input/Output from Shell?

I have a set of nice wireless headphones which I use from time to time, in addition to my speakers and normal microphone. I'd like to write a script to switch between one input and output source and
unix.stackexchange.com unix.stackexchange.com

Code: 
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
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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 said:
Hello,

What distro are you using? Can you post a pic of your fastfetch or neofetch?
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Let's try this. Let's run this command:

Bash: 
mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

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

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


nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

Code: 
pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.
 
jmarket said:
Let's try this. Let's run this command:

Bash: 
mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

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

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


nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

Code: 
pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.
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I tried adding it to both pulse.properties and pulse.rules, but there is no effect.
 
jmarket said:
Let's try this. Let's run this command:

Bash: 
mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

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

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


nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

Code: 
pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.
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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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1725826425037.webp


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
 
jmarket said:
Let's try this. Let's run this command:

Bash: 
mkdir ~/.config/pipewire

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

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


nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

in the conf file find pulse properties and put:

Code: 
pulse.min.req = 1024/48000

pulse.min.frag = 1024/48000

pulse.min.quantum = 1024/48000

then save and reboot.
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i also noticed that if i set balance to smth like this:
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or
1725863924331.webp

sound is much better, but it is still dull
 
Bruce said:
And when plugged in, the headphones are still crap?
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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
 
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