mv ~/.asoundrc .asoundrc.old
mv ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf.old
Saw (and tried) some other very abstruse fixes before this. Should have known it would be something simple.
Smiling in the teeth of the howling gale of total anonymity
mv ~/.asoundrc .asoundrc.old
mv ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf.old