I did. It didn't improve much. I've installed pulseaudio mixer, which does improve things somewhat, but it is a greedy bastard. It keeps stealing my skype input & outputs, even though I keep configuring pulse to send them to my headset. I may have to uninstall pulseaudio mixer and suffer bad audio (until I either somehow install a new soundcard or get rid of this fscking mac).

I did. It didn't improve much. I've installed pulseaudio mixer, which does improve things somewhat, but it is a greedy bastard. It keeps stealing my skype input &amp; outputs, even though I keep configuring pulse to send them to my headset. I may have to uninstall pulseaudio mixer and suffer bad audio (until I either somehow install a new soundcard or get rid of this fscking mac).

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a 21" iMac, the issue is the sound system.

I have sound, but it's seriously weedy, lacking in the rich timbre and bassiness that comes from them when osx is running. In short, they sound like a pair of cheap, cardboard speakers.

Does anybody have any suggestions for improving this situation?

Btw, my alsa-base.conf has the following line, which is a workaround for the crappy iMac soundcard:

&gt;options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3


Aluminium 21" iMac sound issues