(17-Sep-2025, 11:57)dmitrek Wrote:(17-Sep-2025, 11:09)erik701 Wrote: I’m curious to know if the delay feature via Optical input will still be present in these new Phantom Ultimate lineup models. They are heavily promoting them as offering a “home cinema experience,” so I’m hoping for the best.
I think delay is there → it's essential for them to do sound processing "ahead of time" for SAM to work. Some part of delay could be attributed to connectivity, that has improved, so probably number could be lower.
latency or delay has been a topic of interest.
Subjectively:
for the Ultimate 98 - very crude visual/audio test - can i use it to watch online videos = yes.
for playing back video on a PC don't notice any obvious sync issues but its not perfect and can blame the playback environment and content as much as the speaker system.
its better than my cable TV is on some programming from a a/v sync perspective and better than bluetooth - but those are low bars.
more objectively - i seem to find about 10-20ms delay in one test and 60-80 ms in a different test - very much an UN-calibrated and rude test- im kind of particular and distracted by bad lip sync but don't notice it for my use video use cases. (non-theater-more casual)
i am hearing. encountering some bad sync trying to get dos 2 and dos 3 systems to play music together but its not a good fair test unless i eliminate the dialog and use the SPDIF optical input on the gold pair to match the optical input on the ultimate 98, and to do that i'd have to take them off the wall.... so may not happen soon...
