I can confirm this. Before 4.4.2, Phonon's backends used Pulseaudio "seamlessly". For some reason, Pulse's device was replaced with ESD on my system after the upgrade to 4.4.2, and the "new" PA device actually routes through alsa and has obvious latency issues.
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