Morning all.
Is it normal to experience 3 second delay using a line-in on a Port?
This is what happened a couple of weeks back …...
We have a Sonos Port feeding into an old Pioneer Ax10Ai amp that feeds a 7 x Evid 6.2’s and 2 x B&W PV1 sub woofers in the garden. We use the Pioneer’s 7 channel stereo DSP to distribute the Sonos Port input. Works a dream.
But we held a party a couple of weeks back (wife’s 60th) and had a guitarist playing into a mixer which we tried to feed into the line-in of the Port which then went to the Pioneer. Sound wise …. spot on. But the delay was crazy long …. approximately 3 seconds. It made the playback impossible for the guitarist who was playing live but hearing his output 3 seconds later. Should add that all our Sonos devices are RJ45 wired.
I plugged a DVD/CD player into the line in to test. Same thing …. great sound but a terrible delay.
Is this normal? And why is it happening? And of course more importantly, is there anything at all I can do to fix it for another time?
Was a bit of a shame as we had to take the input direct to the Pioneer and could not stream to multi-room as a result but there was zero delay. The delay 100% was coming from Sonos best I could assess.
I never expected it and I hope it proves to be something in the way I set it up but it’s not jumping out at me. I tried different line out options but not exhaustively.
Interested to know how to fix. Or will I just have to live with that.
Many thanks in advance
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