Poor sound quality

[pccsoares]

I have been using OpenElec for several years. Recently I tested Volumio on my RaspberryPi3 system and the sound quality is amazing.
Can't listen to my Flacs anymore on OpenElec.
But I really love OpenElec and Kodi so I want to make it work.
I started investigating and maybe OpenElec is doing software mixing of the sound through Alsa. This was the result of the command aplay:

Code:

OpenELEC:~ # aplay -L

null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
sysdefault:CARD=II
Music Streamer II, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=II,DEV=0
Music Streamer II, USB Audio
Front speakers
surround21:....
iec958:CARD=II,DEV=0
Music Streamer II, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

In Volumio I see the devices HW and PLUGWG

Does anyone can shed some lights onto this?

[pccsoares]

forgot to add that in both systems the volume is set to 100%. so it must be settings... somewhere.
anyone?


i cant see the direct hardware device without any conversion like this:

Code:

hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
Music Streamer II, USB Audio
Direct hardware device without any conversions