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

[Caerie Houchins]

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