I could, but that seems a bit unclean and hacky to me :( I would prefer to just ping speakers for a brief moment

Yes, I have tried with. Same result :(

Thank you! 🙂

Can you share your configuration.nix? I am slowly finishing my Qtile rice on X11 and as a next step I want to port it to Wayland. So far I have prechecked that my current config on Wayland breaks completely :D