In Reply to: who cares about latency anyway? posted by fmak on February 17, 2012 at 23:13:26:
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Latency is the amount of time a signal is delayed as it moves through the system.
It doesn't matter if that is a millisecond or a minute as long as all bits are delayed equally. If the stream of bits coming out the other end is otherwise identical except for the fact that it has been delayed then it can't possibly sound different. Think about that. For your position to be true two identical streams of data would have to sound different.... impossible.
If playing around with buffers changes the sound of your system then that has nothing to do with latency. If decreasing the latency changes the sound it is a secondary effect and has nothing to with the delay.
I will accept that the longer the signal stays in the system and the more it is passed from device to device the more likely that timing errors will occur, but those errors are not caused by latency.
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Follow Ups
- apples and oranges, let's define latency - bwb 02/18/1208:21:35 02/18/12 (8)
- OMG...LOL. - Dynobot 08:25:25 02/18/12 (7)
- thank you, that really added a lot to the discussion. - bwb 08:27:22 02/18/12 (6)
- I wash thinking the same thing about your post when I busted out laughing. - Dynobot 08:40:18 02/18/12 (5)
- you seem to have a problem with deductive reasoning and staying on topic - bwb 08:54:33 02/18/12 (4)
- RE: you seem to have a problem with deductive reasoning and staying on topic - Tony Lauck 11:11:14 02/18/12 (3)
- OK, I can agree with that, but that's not what I said - bwb 11:34:37 02/18/12 (2)
- RE: OK, I can agree with that, but that's not what I said - Tony Lauck 12:12:20 02/18/12 (1)
- Amen brother Tony! /nt - bwb 13:07:24 02/18/12 (0)