Comment 107 for bug 345627

Daniel RE what you said about the problems with the default resample-method = value on certain hardware, surely there is a possible solution that the install should query what hardware there is and optimally default the value to be correct? Whats happening currently is that audio out of the box is a broken user experience.

Thanks very much to Conn, on my audigy 2 soundcard going from the default src-linear to speex-float-1 fixed all the crackling problems I had.

For anyone else with an Audigy 2 card and crackling, the fix is to gksudo gedit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and edit the resample-method = src-linear to resample-method = speex-float-1.