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As some of you know: Phantoms Premiere uses GStreamer to transfer audio between dialog and speakers.
There is a open protocol wich is called AES67. AES67 can handle multi channel uncompressed audio with latencys by 5-10ms.
GStreamer supports AES67. So if devialet would jump on this train, we could stream any source with our existing hardware with nearly zero latency.
Also Surround setups would be possible.
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While this would be great, it’s my understanding that the streaming protocol is not what introduces the lag. It’s the digital signal processing on the speakers themselves.
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I dont think so, cause optical direct mode would also produce a lag in that case.
It think it caused by buffering for network transfer.
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If that's the case, then seriously, WTF Devialet? Why would you have not created a box for TV/gaming input? Why have you not made a 5.5 setup?
If it's just network buffering, that's frankly insane.
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Still annoyed. People who spend that much on a speaker (or two) will be able to run dedicated cables, or Ethernet. Why have a buried optical mode instead of just supporting it properly?
I've run dedicated LAN cables for much cheaper setups, or buried speaker cables in the wall. We have a buffer introduced because most people won't have ethernet cables? That's frankly, madness.
Devialet - can we just fix these speakers so they can work like regular, no lag, good sounding, speakers - and THEN introduce loads of random extra crap? Grrr.
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Let's start with spark logs? Can people upload some wireshark logs of playing something on phantoms during idle network , thru wifi?
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(26-Jan-2019, 13:31)YoYoBuffalo Wrote: First post here
i want to buy the Devialet Phantom's, was about the buy the Golds, then learned about the latency. I have spent months trying to fid a work around but I'm not convinced the optical only, bypassing the processing will have great quality (please correct me if I'm wrong!).
It would mainly be used for streaming, which is obviously fine but I also want to mix vinyl through them which would be useless with the latency. I'm really surprised of so many years of these speaker being around there is still such slow latency and that has ultimately stopped me purchasing these otherwise truly great speakers.
What a monumentally frustrating shame!
At least you did the research and found out before you bought.
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