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▲ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux (naturalsystems.io)
dasv 11 minutes ago [-]
How difficult would it be to extend it to 192kHz, or even 384kHz? Is it limited by the ESP32 hardware?
phaserphile 16 minutes ago [-]
how do I buy this?
eqvinox 17 hours ago [-]
> Very low latency: 3.620 milliseconds round trip at 48 kHz with 64 sample buffer

"very low latency" in audio is <=1ms. 3.6ms is good but not special.

tern 18 minutes ago [-]
Round trip latency for RME devices (widely considered the best in the industry) is around 3ms, so this is indeed "very low latency".

You might be thinking of latency of the converters, which is indeed normally sub-ms.

k_roy 41 minutes ago [-]
But it’s matching AND exceeding the performance of a $999 PCIe card designed for a similar purpose.

I would love to know why this is hand-wavy and not very cool? Even as not-audiophile, I’ve got ideas of things to use this for.

> RME HDSPe AIO Pro PCIe

> eth68 matches the latency performance of the RME card at 48 kHz and surpasses it by 0.33 ms at 96 kHz.

Venn1 6 minutes ago [-]
As the owner of the PCIe card that measurement was taken from, yes, I’d say it’s quite impressive. The average round-trip latency for a USB audio interface at 48 kHz/128 samples would usually fall somewhere around 8 ms, which is a bit much if you’re monitoring post-FX.

On Linux, we don’t have much in the way of Thunderbolt support for audio interfaces, so the only way to achieve this sort of latency has traditionally been with PCIe or PCI audio interfaces. Having a low-cost, infinitely more portable solution would be very welcome.

h3lp 48 minutes ago [-]
They quote a roundtrip of 3.6ms, so one-way 1.8ms. In the plots on their page, it looks like the processing latency is centered on around 1ms:

> The LATMON pulse width is therefore an accurate measure of the total processing latency of each cycle and is affected by every element in the data path: processing delay in the microcontroller, network transmission delay, host OS delays, signal processing delay in the DAW, etc

jauntywundrkind 1 days ago [-]
Really nice!!!

I wonder if gigabit would make a difference on latency, faster packet transmissions. Could packets drop from 64 to 32b?

4ms is pretty good but I feel like sub 2ms would be nicer.

dcrazy 1 days ago [-]
Dante’s default latency compensation is 1ms: https://dev.audinate.com/GA/dante-controller/userguide/webhe...
altairprime 1 days ago [-]
https://semiengineering.com/latency-considerations-for-1-6t-...

It seems like, at 16000TbaseT anyways, you’re adding an overhead of about 150% on top of copper/fiber latency plus transmit time latency to process data at that bandwidth. I wonder if the same holds true at 100 vs 1000, 2500, 10000? Certainly this is a known tradeoff for DDR performance tuning — if you don’t mind spiking response times greatly, you can get the advertised maximum speeds, else you accept less bandwidth for somewhat less latency — and they’re both effectively using the same strategies to talk over copper.

Polizeiposaune 22 minutes ago [-]
> eth68 sends capture packets to 12.12.12.10:3000 by default.

Um.

k_roy 5 minutes ago [-]
Riiip…. I hate private projects pooping on public spaces.
vasachi 13 minutes ago [-]
At least it’s AT&T, not Huawei :)
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