AirPlay LAN dropouts

Since switching to a Mac Studio and updating to Ventura (13.2.1, but happened with earlier Ventura releases), Music's broadcasts to four wired AirPlay Yamaha WXA-50 receivers/amps are subject to occasional dropouts. I haven't been able to characterize when they occur (death for debugging...I know...<sigh>).

My best guess for now is that other processes are getting prioritized over Music's worker bees. But that's purely a guess. It seems the dropouts occur most frequently during the last few seconds of a track. But that could be observational bias.

Mostly, I'm fishing for others who might have noticed similar behavior and might have some theories on what's going on.

Any comments?

Forgot to tag core audio, too

AirPlay LAN dropouts
 
 
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