Fuzzy, blown out sound on speakers only in Chrome

I'm getting a fuzzy sound when playing audio on Google Chrome, almost like the speakers are about to blow out. This only happens when playing from the built-in speakers; headphone input is fine. Running Ubuntu 18.04 on an Asus ZenBook

Solutions I've tried:

• Removing and reinstalling alsa-base, pulseaudio and indicator-sound
• Set load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
• Adjusted levels using PaVu and alsa-mixer

Not a huge dealbreaker but I'm more just curious as to what could possibly be causing this...

1 Answer

I had this problem last night. It had something to do with audio power saving or something. This worked for me. Add the following to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N

I hope it works for you.