diff --git a/Userland/Services/AudioServer/Mixer.h b/Userland/Services/AudioServer/Mixer.h
index 7647550b77..2d20f6e866 100644
--- a/Userland/Services/AudioServer/Mixer.h
+++ b/Userland/Services/AudioServer/Mixer.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ namespace AudioServer {
 // This is to prevent clipping when two streams with low headroom (e.g. normalized & compressed) are playing.
 constexpr double SAMPLE_HEADROOM = 0.95;
 // The size of the buffer in samples that the hardware receives through write() calls to the audio device.
-constexpr size_t HARDWARE_BUFFER_SIZE = 1024;
+constexpr size_t HARDWARE_BUFFER_SIZE = 512;
 // The hardware buffer size in bytes; there's two channels of 16-bit samples.
 constexpr size_t HARDWARE_BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES = HARDWARE_BUFFER_SIZE * 2 * sizeof(i16);