Getting more juice from a preamp?

[gilpel at altern.org]

Antonio Olivares wrote:

> $ alsamixer -c0

Everything was pretty much maxed out. I maxed out surround sound too, as I
believe the integrated audio card might support. Maybe it helped a little
bit, or it's just that the room is more quiet at 1 am.

> then
> $  pavucontrol

On x86_64 system:

Connection failed: Connection terminated

Got to go to sleep now. See you later.

Thanks for your quick reply!