Comment 19 for bug 359361

the problem seems to worsen over time. i did a fresh install of the system, no distortion whatsoever was present. the following days slight dístortion occured, by now (~ a week later) the situation is almost as bad as before. all i ever changed in that time was setting levels with alsamixer (muting analogue outputs and setting SPDIF to -0dB damping), and changing the standard device and volume using pulse. i did not play anything but 44.1kHz though, so neither alsa nor pulse should have felt the need to resample.

since this distortion accumultes over time my suggestion is that some config file must be the cause. any of you have an idea where to try deleting and recreating files that might cause this?