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Does the dongle add latency?
by snerbles 10y ago
Does the dongle add latency?
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoUnlikely; the audio had to be converted from digital to analog on the phone previously so now that's being moved to a dongle so it's still the same process (roughly). If it does add latency I would bet it's very unnoticeable (like sub milliseconds when compared to the built-in solution).
- makomk 10y agoEntirely possible. Onboard DACs use I2S which adds basically zero latency; one of the ways of getting audio out over Lightning is to use USB which requires additional latency-causing buffering. It's possible that there's another lower-latency way of getting audio out over Lighting but only Apple knows.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoFair enough. Now I'm interested in this topic but am not an electrical engineer so I've skimmed through about 5 wikipedia articles semi related heh