http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14717
--- Comment #226 from Alexey Loukianov mooroon2@mail.ru 2011-11-10 18:23:24 CST --- Alexander, thanks for your patience keeping working on this problem for about three years and coming up with your pretty nice patchset. I want to mention one side note:
... its only purpose is to improve sound quality when some of the application sounds use a sample rate different from the one you set in winecfg.
AFAIK, winecfg in recent Wine versions doesn't allow one to set sample rate. You have to set it using registry editor in case it is really required. I agree with you on all other points you had written about.