What is the latency of A-Net?
It’s easy to be misled by latency statistics, so it’s important to look at what is being measured. Latency is the delay from transmission, but it’s important to consider all the factors that can add to delay. Converting a signal from analog to digital, for instance, takes a fair amount of time, and some specifications ignore this. The latency of a Pro16 A-Net system is below a millisecond, from analog in to analog out, even through a very long daisy-chain of devices. In more realistically sized systems, it’s about 800 microseconds (or 0.8 milliseconds) from analog in to analog out. Because Pro64 systems can have digital inputs and outputs, calculating the latency from input to output varies, depending on whether the audio is going through A/D and D/A converters. No matter what, the latency is still well below a millisecond from analog in to analog out. More detailed information can be found on each product’s data sheet.
