Onboard drivers of Macs are very good here as you may also have experienced. The lowest achievable latencies differ depending on the device and its drivers, but values of 5-10ms (or 10-20ms roundtrip) are possible in most cases, and this is usually squarely in 'fast enough' town.Īll I know for sure is that latency is a matter of driver, not hardware. The newer Windows architecture(s) as well as the Mac OS audio architecture and ALSA on Linux allow for reasonably low latencies in fact this now works so well that for Windows an ASIO emulation layer exists that sits on top of WDM kernel streaming (ASIO4All) and makes native ASIO drivers obsolete most of the time. That is, roundtrip latencies (recording to playback) of less than 50ms are nowadays achievable even without special drivers like ASIO. Latency is largely not an issue anymore, IMHO, at least when only playback is concerned. On a PC notebook, it is usually not even a question, though. One probably still benefits from a good audio interface, but maybe not as much. ![]() However (although without speaking from personal experience) Mac audio interfaces are supposed to be a whole lot less bad. AC'97 and relatives) are just awful in the first two disciplines. ![]() ![]() There are (in my humble opinion) three main considerations when speaking about audio interfaces.
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