Creative USB Audigy sound card distorts

[Claude Jones]

I've got a small Creative USB Audigy sound device connected to an ASUS laptop. 
(I could get the model # with difficulty as it's buried under the back of a 
very tight desk). If I boot into Vista, the sound is perfect. If I boot into 
F8 it comes out sounding harshly distorted and sounding as if its looped back 
on itself. Thinking it was pulse, I played with various settings but never 
got good sound. I just removed the two files alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and 
kde-settings-pulseaudio recommended in a separate thread, to disable pulse. I 
still have the exact same distorted echoing audio.

Anyone else seen this? 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA