The first 5× sweep after Priority 2's tightening (commit `04be38ad`)
exposed two scenarios where my chosen thresholds didn't match the
post-merge browser path:
1. **`chromium_listener_mid_broadcast_mute_shortens_pcm`** —
the plan recommended tightening the no-mute upper bound from
5.5 s to 5.0 s. Empirical post-`:quic`-merge steady state is
~5.1–5.2 s (Chromium AudioDecoder ramp-up + harness window
padding); 5.0 s tripped 5/5 sweeps. Reverted to 5.5 s — still
excludes the 6 s "push embedded silence instead of FIN"
regression mode.
2. **`chromium_listener_speaker_hot_swap_does_not_crash`** —
the plan recommended a 0.5 s floor. Empirical post-merge sample
count is ~100–160 ms (warmup window only). Looks like
Chromium's `@moq/lite` 0.2.x client tears down its catalog/audio
subscriptions when it sees `Announce::Ended → Active` in rapid
succession instead of re-attaching. Tracked as a deferred
follow-up in `2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-results.md`.
Replaced the 0.5 s floor with `pcm.size > warmupSamples`
(catches "swap killed the WT session entirely"). The hang-tier
counterpart (`speaker_hot_swap_does_not_crash`) hard-asserts the
full post-swap window decodes the 440 Hz peak, so T12
protection is intact via the hang tier; the browser tier here
only asserts the WT session survived the swap. FFT assertion
removed because the captured window is too short post-merge for
the FFT to resolve a 440 Hz peak with halfWindowHz=5.
Per the plan's Risk § option (b): widen the threshold ONLY if the
new value still excludes the regression mode the test was designed
to catch.
Claude
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