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Re:Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Los... by Kirby64 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:35PM (#43473823)
> And we could have had that on all AirPods, for several years now, if Apple were to finally implement LC3 and Bluetooth LE Audio.

LC3 still has 50ms or so latency from what I’ve seen. LC3+ is lower, but 20ms is still something. Wired you can be single digit ms easily.

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Re:Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Los... by jampekka on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:34PM (#43488758)
20 ms on top of other latencies (buffers) is not good for e.g. live monitoring.
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