I confirm that in 1.8.0 nothing was changed.

Is it possible to get somekind "debug" version of player to give you more feedback?

I also confirm that the problem persists in latest version of the player (1.7.1.0) with my "Creative SB X-Fi" audio device. In all other players (KMPlayer, MPC-HC) all sounds OK. Seems like audio bitstream is not synchronized to system clock but maybe to video window or like that, so audio bitstream...