I apologize that it took so long to reply, but this remains an issue. I don't think it's an issue with USB, as I haven't had this problem with anything else. Furthermore, I've now tried this with both my headset and my computer's internal speakers. Both audio devices produce the same delay. I'm begi...

I can't quite tell if this is a bug or a configuration issue, but Factorio seems to have major sound delay problems. I was initially running it through PulseAudio's ALSA plugin, and so I was blaming the delay on that, but I just tried it with ALSA only, and the same thing happens. This has happened ...