Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - How to improve the sound quality
If you notice the sound quality when playing a youtube video sounds off and not as good as Windows, I recommend you modify some PulseAudio settings by editing a configuration file with a text editor of your choice, sudo powers required. The file in question is is /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Look for the setting below, ; resample-method = speex-float-1 Uncomment the line by deleting the ; and change the default value from speex-float-1 to sox-vhq. resample-method = soxr-vhq I would also recommend the following, default-sample-rate = 48000 alternate-sample-rate = 48000 Explaining it in more detail No doubt you have seen this recommendation all over the internet. By default Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will set your sound device to run with a sample rate of 48KHz. This is where the setting 'default-sample-rate = 48000' comes in. When you watch a video on youtube through your browser, the audio sample rate from youtube is 44.1KHz (because that is what youtube encodes audio at). Ideally the 'alt...