Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #1838151
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 1838151

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Actually most laptops (or desktops) can't compete with USB sound cards. Because the audio chips that come on your motherboard:

 * are usually cheaper and lower quality;
 * often have limited kernel/ALSA driver support (which is why the alsa-driver bug backlog is always out of control);
 * often suffer from noise on the headset jack from the digital-to-analog stage being too close to the rest of the computer.

So I strongly recommend USB audio in general. Especially for wired headsets where you can also avoid the lossy nature of Bluetooth audio encoding.

And for Bluetooth audio, such a USB dongle sounds like a great workaround for this bug. But we all wish it wasn't necessary.