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I get your point, and you may be right and it might take off.

But is a latency of 2ms up to 50ms really attractive? I am in no way near audio engineering, but i can remember the MIDI-folks swearing about their 2ms latency.

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Not very good keyboard player here: higher than ~~8ms is annoying for playing/recording. But 50ms probably isn't bad if say, you're blasting a message through a factory intercom, or piping music through a dental office, or stuff like that.

And for large venues, remember that sound only goes ~3.4 m in 10 ms. loudspeaker-to-ear latency can be larger than all of your processing. Doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but makes the last few ms less important.

AES67-2018 specifies packet times (latencies) of 125us, 250us, 333us, 1ms and 4ms. Senders and receivers may support additional packet times.

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