Any point of using ALSA in android 2.3?

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Hello everyone, I have a small question for you all that I am not able to answer, because I do not know how. So I am hoping you all will be able to give me the right questions or the right answers... I've been seeing in a lot of audio mods people are show casing ALSA, now from what I understand ALSA is a Linux Sound API and used for applications to plug-into to play sound, would installing this help Gingerbread produce better sound? Or is this just to 'show off'? Also, how is it able too if Applications are built to use OpenSL ES? Any type of input is REALLY appreciated... thanks!