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So, these are the opinions of two people.
I wanted to report this test.
Thanks, calciumsodium. This is what I wanted to hear. Real life experience. For now, pulseaudio still seems to have better quality, even if it uses a bit more resources and lags a bit.
For bluetooth headphones the quality of sound is better with pipewire, but probably for speakers it will still need to improve a lot.
Thanks for testing. Maybe in antiX 23 we can recommend people to install pipewire instead of pulseaudio when experiencing audio problems that cannot be solved with ALSA.
Using pulse/ apulse has never given me much bother (years of usage) so will stay with it.
I am not suggesting for everyone to replace it, but asking for other people’s experience.
ALSA is still the best option (but to get best results, depending on your device, you will need to configure it further, which is not that easy). Pulseaudio brings a lot of latency (for professionals, JACK is the better option). pipewire aims to replace all of them (thou still speaking to the ALSA server, as that is what talks directly with kernel and hardware), being able to interface as pulseaudio with a similar latency to JACK.
You can read a bit about each of them here and why they exist: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/coi4dt/a_complete_guide_of_and_debunking_of_audio_on/
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