Technology: Latency

Minimal latency was one of the key design requirements for EtherSound. No other digital audio network technology offers such low latency with as many channels with such high audio quality.

EtherSound meets the requirements of even the most demanding applications, such as live sound, recording and broadcast.

The end-to-end transmission time in a network (SSI in to SSI out) is six samples (125 microseconds at 48 kHz). Each slave module in a daisy-chain adds less than 1.5 microseconds (0.5 microseconds in the case of ES-Giga) to this time.

Latency is independent of the number of channels transmitted.

Furthermore, EtherSound is deterministic, making it possible to calculate the delay between any two devices in an EtherSound network.