[direx]

@Falcon1: You are right that dmix can work around a few issues in some cases. I have a 7.1 speaker setup for instance and dmix would not really help here as long as #13195 is not fixed either, as the number of channels cannot be detected automatically by dmix.

One issue which would definitely remain with dmix is the higher power usage, which is still a pretty major thing for 24/7 HTPCs. Right now it looks like there are still a lot of regressions an the ALSA-side.