I wanted to give pipewire a try, but I the sound is not clear and is distorted from time to time not like it was with pulseaudio, I found the following errors:
systemctl --user status pipewire.service
● pipewire.service - Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-05-25 13:46:31 +01; 20min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 1486 (pipewire)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─1486 /usr/bin/pipewire
May 25 14:04:37 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-58) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:49883392 status:triggered
May 25 14:05:14 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: alsa-pcm front:0: snd_pcm_status error: Broken pipe
May 25 14:05:14 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-dummy-52) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:51658752 status:awake
May 25 14:05:14 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-58) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:51658752 status:triggered
May 25 14:06:03 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: alsa-pcm front:0: snd_pcm_status error: Broken pipe
May 25 14:06:03 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-dummy-52) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:54008576 status:awake
May 25 14:06:03 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-58) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:54008576 status:triggered
May 25 14:06:40 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: alsa-pcm front:0: snd_pcm_status error: Broken pipe
May 25 14:06:40 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-dummy-52) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:55783680 status:awake
May 25 14:06:40 manjaro-med pipewire[1486]: (speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-58) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:55783680 status:triggered
systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-05-25 13:47:17 +01; 2h 1min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
Main PID: 1748 (pipewire-pulse)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
└─1748 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
May 25 15:24:19 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: (speech-dispatcher-dummy-10) client missed 1 wakeups
May 25 15:24:19 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: (speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-13) client missed 1 wakeups
May 25 15:38:49 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: (speech-dispatcher-dummy-10) client missed 1 wakeups
May 25 15:38:49 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: (speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-13) client missed 1 wakeups
May 25 15:42:37 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: pulse-server 0x5642c0265870: [libphonon-probe] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:2 error:19 (Operation not supported)
May 25 15:42:39 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: pulse-server 0x5642bfe5f300: [xdg-desktop-portal-kde] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:5 error:19 (Operation not supported)
May 25 15:42:39 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: pulse-server 0x5642bfe5f300: [xdg-desktop-portal-kde] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:6 error:19 (Operation not supported)
May 25 15:45:35 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: pulse-server 0x5642c0258720: [Firefox] UNDERFLOW channel:0 offset:11569152 underrun:2048
May 25 15:45:44 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: (Firefox-27) client missed 1 wakeups
May 25 15:46:02 manjaro-med pipewire-pulse[1748]: pulse-server 0x5642c0258720: [Firefox] UNDERFLOW channel:1 offset:11497472 underrun:2048