But that was still very away from optimal sound, sound was still stuttering and sounding pretty bad, video was ok. Well, seems using the experimental video and audio plugins speeded it up around 20%. Determined, I tried many things, that is, checking and unchecking boxes, searching the interwebs, what I sometimes do when emulators seem to not be cooperating.
I had a feeling Dolphin 4.0.2 was slowing down unnecessarily.