CD hiss: how get rid of?

[Robin Laing]

Douglas Frank wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Much as I hate to admit it, music CD's sound a lot better on the Windows
> box than on my FC3 workstation using kscd.  The problem is a high-
> frequency hiss that I can't control.  Does anyone know the trick of
> dolbying the hiss into silence?  (Of course I could just turn the sound
> up, or limit myself to ZZ Top...)

As this is on a different box, it could be hardware related.  It could 
be as simple as a poorer sound card.

Read an article last week about having the sound card next to the 
Graphics Card and picking up noise.  As others have said, look at the 
settings on the mixer.

My wife complained about hiss on our workstation and it turned out 
that the mixer was turned down and the volume on the speakers was 
cranked up.  Increased the mixer settings and lowered the speaker 
volume, noise gone.

-- 
Robin Laing