I tried that VI-specific distro yesterday and it was so glitchy I could barely understand it. If you work it out, please let me know.

could try to fiddle with the sound.VirtualDev setting, I do believe both Hdaudio and es1371 are supported. In my experience though es1371 didn't give much improvement in Linux distros and VMWare. Sadly Broadcom is really squeezing the life out of that product.

If you know I, for one, would love to hear of it. I am informed that USB soundcards work if you pass them through, but have yet to hear of anything for the default VM sound devices.

@FreakyFwoof @Tamasg @elementary Thanks very much. I haven't done this, only because I can't SSH in (it's a live system), and I can't understand the speech (yes, the crackling is that bad), to the point where I can't do this in the system itself. However, thanks to the distro compiler, I was pointed towards this page. forum.audiogames.net/post/9394… Adding pciSound.playBuffer = "40" to the .vmx file as noted on that page, made it comprehensible, it still breaks up just a bit but as I said, I couldn't understand it before. I can certainly understand it now.

@techsinger @Tamasg @elementary Wow, I remember that line from back in the day, I forgot about it though. I added it and it's immediately understandable now. thanks for that.