diff --git a/macos/Runner/MpvPlayer/MpvPlayerCore.swift b/macos/Runner/MpvPlayer/MpvPlayerCore.swift
index 32404c5f..7f619642 100644
--- a/macos/Runner/MpvPlayer/MpvPlayerCore.swift
+++ b/macos/Runner/MpvPlayer/MpvPlayerCore.swift
@@ -102,7 +102,21 @@ class MpvPlayerCore: MpvPlayerCoreBase {
   }
 
   override func configurePlatformMpvOptions(mpv: OpaquePointer) {
+    // AVFoundation stays the macOS output. Spatialization is only reachable
+    // through the AVFoundation renderer — allowedAudioSpatializationFormats is a
+    // property of AVSampleBufferAudioRenderer (macOS 12+), and the AO opts
+    // compressed playback into the multichannel format — and the E-AC3 JOC sink
+    // lives there too. CoreAudio writes straight to the HAL device and exposes no
+    // spatialization control at all, so it is a fallback, not an alternative.
     checkError(mpv_set_option_string(mpv, "ao", "avfoundation,coreaudio"))
+    // Unbound the AO's PCM lookahead, restoring the renderer-owned queue depth
+    // 2.9.1 shipped (#1711). The macOS-only 0.5s bound MPVKit 1.0.15 added is the
+    // only change to this path between 2.9.1 and 2.10, and 2.10 skips audio at
+    // roughly that cadence. Its purpose was making mpv's software --volume, which
+    // is baked into the samples handed to the AO, audible before the queue
+    // drains; that latency is back, and belongs to the AO's gain domain rather
+    // than to how far ahead it may buffer.
+    checkError(mpv_set_option_string(mpv, "ao-avfoundation-max-lookahead", "0"))
   }
 
   func reattachMetalLayer() {