AS3: Latency aka delay in playing sound

Encountered a problem where I am trying to play short sounds in response to key presses and noticing a considerable delay. Googling for stuff other people seem to have encountered it. Need to test the swf on a windows box to see if what I am seeing is specific to my Linux box.

Some usefull threads on this:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227674?sort=oldest#sort-top

This thread indicates it may be specific to Pulseaudio: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1146361.html

No solution here but describes the problem well: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=7927.0;wap2

EDIT: So tested this on windows XP, the lag still exist but is small enough that I can work around it.