Why do they even include settings by default which introduce crackling and hissing noises?
I found that even starting with resample.quality = 7 I couldn’t hear any difference, younger people (like teenagers) might be able to distinguish 8-9. Maybe use 8 as a default value?
However, it works perfectly fine for me on Arch Linux with Pipewire-Pulse. Garuda Linux is pretty similar, so I’d recommend just using Pipewire.
Pipewire-Pulse actually translates API calls to Pulseaudio for Pipewire.