The documentation for tunnel sink says: Tunnel a remote sink/source to a local "ghost" sink/source. Requires a running PulseAudio daemon on the remote server with module-native-protocol-tcp loaded. It's probably a better idea to connect to the remote sink/source directly since some buffer control is lost through this tunneling. Can anyone expand on "It's probably a better idea to connect to the remote sink/source directly"? What specifically does this mean to connect directly. Is this referring to using the alsa-pulse plugin and attaching to some remote sink using the "server", "device", and "sink" parameters in the .asoundrc file? Jim