This is factually false in my case since ALSA alone has always been fine, no issues. And since I switched (with the same hardware) pipewire also works just fine

This is factually false in my case since ALSA alone has always been fine, no issues. And since I switched (with the same hardware) pipewire also works just fine. But pulseaudio (pa+alsa ofc) is just simply broken on my archlinux install. EDIT: also when pulseaudio breaks you just do `pulseaudio --kill ; pulseaudio --start` Does this really reset the hardware/firmware? I doubt it; it's just configured poorly for my hardware why is that hard to believe?