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_emu10k1
Thanks, Caerie