> There's a psychoacoustic phenomenon known as the Haas effect which states > that a direct sound and it reflections (echos) are percieved as a single > sound by the brain, where the time difference between the two is less than > about 30ms. So if the brain can't distinguish between sounds at this level I > think you'd get away with a 10ms delay in your instrument without the rest of > the band calling you names :-)
How about the 1.0-1.5 ms latencies that everbody tries to obtain (or already has) in both Linux/Win world? That always made me wonder if this isn't just hype like the 192 kHz issue. I'm not a professional musician, but a 25 ms latency makes me more than happy.