diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a808167..a319e87 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -305,12 +305,16 @@ out of a ring, and a goroutine renders 512-frame slices within a 3 ms budget
 until about 300 ms is queued, then yields to the page. The queue doubles as
 latency, since a one-shot is rendered behind whatever is already queued:
 `Options.Queue` sets it and `Player.SetQueue` changes it while playing.
-`letgo` asks for 80 ms, because at 300 a game's sounds landed 100–300 ms after
-what caused them; 80 ms played without a heard click on an iPhone 13 Pro
-(2026-10-26). Where the page is
-cross-origin isolated the ring is a SharedArrayBuffer; elsewhere slices travel
-as transferred messages. Both played without a dropout on an iPhone, including
-under 120 ms main-thread stalls.
+`letgo` asks for 60 ms on a cross-origin isolated page, because at 300 a
+game's sounds landed 100–300 ms after what caused them. Over minutes of play
+in tesserae on an iPhone 13 Pro (2026-10-26), 60, 80, 120 and 200 ms counted
+no underruns, and 40 ms counted 8. Elsewhere it asks for 80 ms, since the
+message path below was not measured at 60. The cost is stall tolerance: a
+main-thread stall longer than the queue empties the ring, so letgo games
+trade the 300 ms default's margin for prompt sound. Where the page is
+cross-origin isolated the ring is a SharedArrayBuffer; elsewhere slices
+travel as transferred messages. Both played without a dropout on an iPhone at
+the 300 ms default, including under 120 ms main-thread stalls.
 
 Two things the page has to provide: HTTPS (or `localhost`), because Safari
 offers AudioWorklet only in a secure context; and a tap, because browsers
diff --git a/letgo/output_js.go b/letgo/output_js.go
index 7521566..c5ed10f 100644
--- a/letgo/output_js.go
+++ b/letgo/output_js.go
@@ -11,12 +11,26 @@ import (
 )
 
 // In the browser the engine plays through webaudio's pump rather than oto,
-// whose js backend crackles on phones (see package webaudio). The queue is 80
+// whose js backend crackles on phones (see package webaudio). The queue is 60
 // ms, not webaudio's 300, because a game's one-shots render behind it: at 300
-// they landed 100-300 ms after the hit. 80 sounded tighter than 140 and 300,
-// with no clicks heard, in tesserae on an iPhone 13 Pro (TinyGo 0.43 bridge on
-// the page's main thread beside the terminal, 2026-10-26). That is ear
-// evidence, not an underrun count.
+// they landed 100-300 ms after the hit. In tesserae (TinyGo 0.43 bridge on the
+// page's main thread beside the terminal, 2026-10-26), its audiolab panel on
+// an iPhone 13 Pro counted no underruns over minutes of play at 60, 80, 120
+// and 200 ms, and 8 at 40 ms. On desktop Chrome a trigger reached the
+// worklet's output 69 ms after dispatch at 60, against 100 ms at 80. The
+// price is stall tolerance: a main-thread stall longer than the queue (a GC,
+// a heavy redraw) empties the ring and is heard as a gap, where 300 ms rode
+// out 120 ms stalls.
+//
+// tesserae is served cross-origin isolated, so all of that is the
+// SharedArrayBuffer ring. The message path webaudio falls back to elsewhere
+// counts posted slices as queued before the worklet has them, and on a phone
+// dipped ~30 ms deeper than the ring at 300 ms; unmeasured at 60, it keeps
+// the 80 ms it had.
 func openOutput(src io.Reader) (output, error) {
-	return webaudio.Open(src, webaudio.Options{SampleRate: engine.SampleRate, Queue: 80 * time.Millisecond})
+	queue := 60 * time.Millisecond
+	if !webaudio.SharedAvailable() {
+		queue = 80 * time.Millisecond
+	}
+	return webaudio.Open(src, webaudio.Options{SampleRate: engine.SampleRate, Queue: queue})
 }
diff --git a/webaudio/webaudio.go b/webaudio/webaudio.go
index dfc0470..c7536bb 100644
--- a/webaudio/webaudio.go
+++ b/webaudio/webaudio.go
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 // The queue is also latency: a trigger is rendered behind everything already
 // queued, so at the default a one-shot lands up to 300 ms after what caused
 // it. A caller playing one-shots can ask for less, and SetQueue changes it
-// while playing; letgo asks for 80 ms (see letgo/output_js.go).
+// while playing; letgo asks for 60 ms, or 80 without cross-origin isolation
+// (see letgo/output_js.go).
 //
 // Where the page is cross-origin isolated, the ring is a SharedArrayBuffer
 // the pump writes straight into; elsewhere (most hosting, itch.io embeds
@@ -119,6 +120,15 @@ class UndertoneShared extends AudioWorkletProcessor {
     return true; } }
 registerProcessor('undertone-shared', UndertoneShared);`
 
+// SharedAvailable reports whether a Player opened now would play through the
+// SharedArrayBuffer ring rather than the message path: true on a
+// cross-origin isolated page. A caller tuning its queue per path asks here
+// before Open, so the rule lives in one place; (*Player).Shared reports the
+// path a Player actually took.
+func SharedAvailable() bool {
+	return js.Global().Get("crossOriginIsolated").Truthy()
+}
+
 // Open creates the AudioContext and starts the pump. It must be called before
 // the user's unlocking gesture, not inside it: iOS Safari only lets a context
 // start from a gesture that arrives after the context exists, so Open listens
@@ -168,7 +178,7 @@ func Open(src io.Reader, opt Options) (*Player, error) {
 	}
 	// ~1 s in whole slices, so a slice never wraps the shared ring
 	p.cap = opt.Slice * int(math.Ceil(float64(opt.SampleRate)/float64(opt.Slice)))
-	if js.Global().Get("crossOriginIsolated").Truthy() {
+	if SharedAvailable() {
 		p.shared = true
 		sab := js.Global().Get("SharedArrayBuffer")
 		samples, ctrl := sab.New(p.cap*8), sab.New(12)
diff --git a/webaudio/worker.go b/webaudio/worker.go
index 0f590a5..1b51608 100644
--- a/webaudio/worker.go
+++ b/webaudio/worker.go
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func inWorker() bool {
 // before the page starts playing.
 func openWorker(src io.Reader, opt Options) (*Player, error) {
 	g := js.Global()
-	if !g.Get("crossOriginIsolated").Truthy() {
+	if !SharedAvailable() {
 		return nil, errors.New("webaudio: playing from a worker needs a cross-origin isolated page (SharedArrayBuffer)")
 	}
 	p := &Player{src: src, opt: opt, shared: true, worker: true, id: int(playerIDs.Add(1))}