What's the difference between Xbian's audio and others?

[flanker]

Hey there, I recently got into raspberry. My first raspberry device is a Pi 2. After some blood sweat and tears I managed to set it up asa NAS, Torrent Client and Web Server. Very happy with it.

Then, I discovered whole media center stuff. Bought another Pi 2 and set it up with OpenElec(don't hate. I wasn't even aware of xbian then). Spent a few nights on it, and manged to make it work just the way I wanted.... Except for one tiny, yet extremely frustrating problem...

I live in an apartment and usually watch movies at night. So I can't just blast the sound from my TV. I figured i'd try my bluetooth headset. Didn't work. From what I understand A2DP profile hasn't made its way to Kodi just yet(which is strange considering 10 years old Nokias has it). So without much hope, I pluged my Logitech G930(USB wireless gaming headset) and it worked!

I was elated. Immediately loaded a movie and started watching. 5 minutes in I noticed popping/cracking sounds. I'm not stranger to this phenomenon. I experienced same thing with this headset before on windows(logitech fixed it with a driver update). I fiddled with every setting on OpenElec(network buffer, sampling rate, channel number etc) Nothing helped.

After two days, I decided to experiment with other OSes. First I tried OSMC which look cool as f**k, but riddled with bugs(not surprising, considering it's still early beta). Anyway, popping sound was there. So I decided (without much hope) to check what other OSes were out there.

Long story short,I found xbian. No popping. Audio is crystal clear. So I decided to stay with xbian. Problem is, from my personal experience, xbian is at least as buggy as OSMC. As of right now; youtube , flixanity or any other addon that streams video over the net doesn't work(found this thread, apearently devs are aware of the problem). Pi restarts on it's own, UI is choppy, getting frequent crashes, video player stops playing movie on it's own and crashes to home screen etc... All in all, not having a great time with xbian...

So my questions are:
1)Does xbian has a stable release? I've found mentions of Xbian v 1.0 stable. But couldn't find links to it. Also considering currently we are at v14, is v1.0 an ancient release?

2)What's the difference between xbian and all the other Kodi OSes? I think it might have something to do with Pulse Audio(which Open Elec uses) and Alsa(which xbian uses?) If that is really the only difference, is there a way to make OpenElec use whatever xbian uses for sound?

3)Am I only one who uses his media center with headphones? It's weird that there is pretty much no information about this specific subject.

4)If anyone uses wireless sound, how do you accomplish that? I guess those analog FM headsets would work. But their sound quality is abysmal. I'd like to avoid them if possible. Also, I've tried pluging g930 dongle to my tv and use it as an audio source. Didn't work.

Anyway. thanks for the hard work you guys put to this project. Whether I stay with xbian or migrate to another distro, at the very least you guys made me realize that there was a solution to my problem

Cheers,
Can

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Ups. Sorry. I didn't realize this was the hw forum. Move it to sw forum if necessary.