diff --git a/src/drivers/include/i2s_dac.hpp b/src/drivers/include/i2s_dac.hpp
index bd837ca0..fdd7e976 100644
--- a/src/drivers/include/i2s_dac.hpp
+++ b/src/drivers/include/i2s_dac.hpp
@@ -27,12 +27,10 @@
 
 namespace drivers {
 
-// DMA max buffer size for I2S is 4092. We normalise to 2-channel, 16 bit
-// audio, which gives us a max of 4092 / 2 / 2 (16 bits) frames. This in turn
-// means that at 48kHz, we have about 21ms of budget to fill each buffer.
-// We base this off of the maximum DMA size in order to minimise the amount of
-// work the CPU has to do to service the DMA callbacks.
-constexpr size_t kI2SBufferLengthFrames = 1024;
+// We normalise to 2-channel, 16 bit audio, which gives us a max of 4092 / 2 / 2
+// (16 bits) frames. This in turn means that at 48kHz, we have about 10ms of
+// budget to fill each buffer.
+constexpr size_t kI2SBufferLengthFrames = 512;
 
 /**
  * Interface for a DAC that receives PCM samples over I2S.