Just found this thread.

Skype quality was poor on my old n900, and it is poor on new one as well.

I've noticed that pulseaudio takes quite a few of cpu time while on skype call, and also some time after call is finished. That made me to think that it may be useful to check if audio stream that pulseaudio receives from skyhost is already poor, or it is broken by pulseaudio processing. If later, that problem should be fixable.

Anyone ever managed to get pulseaudio command line plugin working with pulseaudio daemon running on n900?