Network Transparent Audio with X (was Re: Rmoving the sound modules)

[Matthew Carpenter]

sorry to jump on this topic so quickly to my own ends, but some the
attention of the Sound gurus has been achieved, I would like to as a
potentially simple and potentially complex question:

How does one use Sound across the network...  

eg.  laptop in livingroom, workhorse in office.  I want to watch some TV
with the family while editing some audio.  Simple!  Right? SSH to the
workhorse, start up Audacity, and I edit away.  Works great!  Until I
actually want to record or play back the audio (somewhat important in
audio editing :)   Suddenly I'm waking up the baby because the Workhorse
is playing the audio right next to her bedroom.

Is there something that I can point Audacity to in order to shim X in
between it and the audio device?  It is currently using /dev/dsp for
reads/writes.  Should this be set to something else?  Or am I stuck either
using the workhorse or copying a couple gigs of data back and forth on
whatever system I want to use?

Thx.

PS.  I realized how fortunate I am to have Xwindows and even be able to
pose this question :)