[russelg]

This annoyed me to no end with my FiiO K3 DAC on my Macbook. System sounds like dings etc would basically not play because of the delay.

On their Windows drivers, you have an option to set the stream as Always On. I wish this was available on macOS as well...

[IIsi50MHz]

Can you mitigate or prevent the issue by installing something like eqMac? I use it for basic response levelling for various headphones and the built-in speakers.