Mac Pro internal audio lag

Audio is lagging a few annoying frames in playback on internal source and program monitor windows.
There are no settings in preferences, offset i.e. that affects playback audio lag for better or worse
Hardware
Mac Pro Late 2013
Processor 3,5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
Memory 32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC
GPU AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Internal HD for projects 500 GB Flash
External HD for scratch 126 GB SSD SATA
Monitor DELL UP2414Q 3840 x 2160 px
No second monitor
Premiere Pro CC (2014) 8.20 (65) with default settings
ASIO Hardware Built-in Output
Buffersize 512
Output mapping Adobe Desktop Audio
Mercury Transmit enabled
Audio Device Adobe Desktop Audio
Active speakers directly connected to stereo output headphone jack.
Footage
MTS from Panasonic AG-HMC151
Type: MPEG Movie
Image Size: 1280 x 720
Frame Rate: 50,00
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0

FWIW, I have the same exact problem on a Mac Pro running WinXP SP2 under Bootcamp.
Interestingly, the line out feature works while running WinXP under VMWare Fusion! Evidently, the VMWare sound drivers solve the problem.
I've tried reloading the Realtek drivers, changing every sound setting under XP that I can think of with no luck.
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