On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: > > > When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the > > music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I want > > the same thing playing in several rooms of the house. > > Depends on your distance to each loudspeaker. Sound waves travel at > approximately 1,125 ft/s depending on air temperature and humidity. > Thus, if you're not standing at an exact same distance from each > speaker, the sound will arrive at your ears at different times, creating > an echo effect or a muddying of the material, depending on the time > delay between arrivals. This doesn't take into account reflections off > things such as walls, floors, ceilings, and furniture, which all reflect > sound to a degree, causing additional 'late arrivals'. > > In short, if you want decent stereo sound quality, limit the number of > speakers to two, and sit in one spot equidistant from each. In a "party > mode", who the f--k cares, you have been and wine and what not, and > you're playing it loud enough to be annoying anyway. At that point, > what does it matter? > I'm aware of the distance to the speaker issue. I was wondering mainly about network latency. I ran a test using icecast2 to stream to a couple of machines, and there was a pretty big time difference (maybe half a second). I was using one old laptop, though, so I'm not sure if the delay was due to network latency or due to slow processor and/or bus speed of the old laptop.
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