will a headphone extension cause a delay?
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Taking it back a few decades: Remember those silly headphones we had in grade school with the AIR FILLED cords? They had a speaker in the central box, and distributed the Audio to the individual headphones via analog sound pressure waves through the air hose ("cord"). The headphones didn't even have any transducers in them! So in the case of those, lengthening the "cable" would also increase latency in line with the speed of sound (not the speed of light).
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Do you know what these were called? I guess I'm too much of a young'un to have experienced these, but I'm intrigued.Randyman... wrote:Remember those silly headphones we had in grade school with the AIR FILLED cords? They had a speaker in the central box, and distributed the Audio to the individual headphones via analog sound pressure waves through the air hose ("cord").
Got a ready-made talkbox, there...
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Oh ya- they used to have those on airplanes too.Randyman... wrote:Taking it back a few decades: Remember those silly headphones we had in grade school with the AIR FILLED cords? They had a speaker in the central box, and distributed the Audio to the individual headphones via analog sound pressure waves through the air hose ("cord"). The headphones didn't even have any transducers in them! So in the case of those, lengthening the "cable" would also increase latency in line with the speed of sound (not the speed of light).:
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Sorry about that, I had no idea you were a she. I was trying to clear up that you the OP were talking about headphones, because the answer I quoted made it seem like they though you were talking about the distance between players causing delay.Hard To Kill Records wrote:I'm actually a "she". Wow, I really love Tape Op, but am so disappointed to get such snarky remarks. Not everyone knows how to record, but I'm trying to learn and do something artistic. Thanks anyway.
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the set we have for our EEG system looks more like foam ear buds than the headphones pictures above, but in my field we call 'em tube phonesdfuruta wrote:Do you know what these were called? I guess I'm too much of a young'un to have experienced these, but I'm intrigued.
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No perceptible delay the audio travels at the speed of light down the cable.
The only delay is between mic'd sound source and headphones.
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The only delay is between mic'd sound source and headphones.
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I had an instructor who told us whenever we were patching stereo signals around, to always use patch cables of the same length, otherwise the L and R signals would end up out of phase due to the delay induced by different patch cable lengths.
And I thought, waaaait a tick. That shit is moving at the speed of light in there. I smell bullshit...
And I thought, waaaait a tick. That shit is moving at the speed of light in there. I smell bullshit...
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