Preferred method of playing audio files

Target Platforms Mobile
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What is the preferred and most efficient way to play audioClips? I ask because It’s hard to say what Unity is doing behind the scenes with regards to audio. I am currently torn between two methods of playing audio:

  1. Single audio manager that spawns and reuses GameObjects to play audio
  2. Each GameObject wants to play audio has it’s own AudioSource attached and it deals with it on it’s own

Some advantages to 1 are that any GO can play as many audioClips as they want and having a central audio controller makes GO reuse much easier. 2 seems quicker and easier to throw together but perhaps less efficient when a GO needs to play more than one audioClip.

The answers to a few questions should clear things up and make a decision easily. If there are multiple GameObjects with the same AudioClip is it only loaded once? What is the absolute fastest way to get an AudioClip to play?

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Yes.