Did ESD sound get very bad with the last update for anyone else?

[Caerie Houchins]

Caerie Houchins wrote:

> Since the last update I've found that my sound coming through ESD is 
> very crackly and bad.  ALSA seems just fine and when I play anything 
> through aplay it sounds perfect.
>
> It is possible that I've just not noticed the sound being this bad 
> before, but I'm fairly certain I would have.  GAIM's receive wav has 
> always been annoying, but now it sounds like its being dragged accross 
> a cheese grator :)  Same with anything using sound via Firefox and the 
> flash plugin.  I did read the previous thread on ESD sound being bad 
> on the list here, but at the time that came out I wasn't having any 
> problems.
>
> /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [SB0400         ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
>                     Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) 
> at 0xe800, irq 5
>
> /proc/asound/modules
> 0 snd_emu10k

I take that back, it may not be ESD after all.  I've been experimenting 
with dmix and if I do a :
aplay -D plug:dmix receive.wav
Its very crackily and bad.  However:
aplay receive.wav
plays fine.