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Author: Rainer Weikusat
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...
Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@???> writes:
> Pulse's long delays are a problem for musicians. If you want to
> coordinate two sound sources accurately, those delays are a
> nuisance. But that is something musicians do, not consumers.
> Consumers do not really care how many thousandths of a second the
> sound is delayed on its way to the speakers.


A 'consumer' is - by definition - an entirely passive entity, somewhat
like a refuse bin, who is supposed to swallow whatever is to be
put into him by people who control 'production'.