I understand spatial audio is the new thing, but what I want are consumer audio products that care about the time domain. Everything I’ve heard outside of the pro audio scene (studio and live) has “squishy” transients and lots of time smearing.
Between this, latency issues and the frankly soft dynamic range of most consumer hardware, I'd really like to see someone deliver a truly "professional" audio stack, without compromise. Pipewire gets so close to solving this issue it makes me want to pull my hair out, perhaps Apple will address this with their upcoming chips(?)
CoreAudio is fine, but I've still got gripes with it. Most importantly, it's not as modular as PipeWire is, and it doesn't really expose a whole lot of functionality via the system API. It's coasted along by just being "better than Windows" for quite some time now, but I'd like to see Apple push it into the next decade with something more substantial than just spatial audio.
