<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/13 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:GNUtoo@no-log.org">GNUtoo@no-log.org</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I was *very* disapointed when I discovered the audio quality via<br>
headphones:in IRC they told me that it was because the capacitor(that is<br>
between headphone out and the sound card)'s value was too low and acted as<br>
a filter...<br>
As I am too afraid of breaking the openmoko i won't change the capacitor<br>
myself...but what could I do? build/buy an external amplifier(will it work<br>
fine?) or find a place where they could remplace me the capacitor?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wasn't aware of this problem, but if what you are saying is that the headphone out socket of the phone has a capacitor connected across it that is attenuating the high frequencies, then an external amplifier connected to that socket will not be able to restore those frequencies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A well-designed amplifier that takes a digital audio feed from the USB socket - a USB soundcard, essentially, would work in principle, but in practice may be expensive/time-consuming to implement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My advice would be to try listening to music on your phone. If it sounds fine, don't worry about it further. If it isn't fine, try using a distro that is known to have good sound capabilities (someone else mentioned that Debian gives high playback quality). Only if this fails to give you adequate quality might it be worth investigating hardware replacements/augmentation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Sam</div></div>
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