whiteturbo wrote:Hi,
Long time no see Lol, Well that Sony Z4 tablet was a let down, Beautiful looking tablet but terrible Audio latency, and it was/is very expensive.
Surprisingly things dont seem to have moved very much in the Android world and it seems the Nexus 9 is still favorite and because of the Pixel C release it is dropping in price, aprox £250 for 32gb model but does anyone know what the Nvidia Shield TV console latency is because it is advertised as having, and i quote:-
SHIELD supports 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound pass through over HDMI. It also supports high-res audio playback up to 24-bit/192 kHz over HDMI and USB and high-res audio upsample to 24-bit/192 hHz over USB.
Absolutely agree about the Nexus9, as long as you run it on Android 5.1.1. On Android 6 (marshmallow) there are problems, with the latency and also with the overall performance.
Regarding the SHIELD tablet, I guess you refer to that one, right?
http://www.gsmarena.com/nvidia_shield-6601.php or is there a newer one?
I had one of those to test with, but I must say the performance was a bit disappointing, and so was the latency.
Generally, USB audio is possible on most modern Android devices (at least at 24bit/96kHz). But the problem with the USB audio interfaces is that the latency is much higher than if you use the headphone jack. The one and only exception is Audio Evolution Mobile, since the wrote their own usb audio driver from scratch.
whiteturbo wrote:Or is this more snake-oil salesman false promise's ?
In my situation this setup would work as most of my time is spent in front of my TV which is my monitor for my PC and £150 seems quite reasonable for a static setup. What do you think? And finally I cant find any info about the Samsung tab S2's latency although its predecessor the Tab S1 seemed reasonable.
My old Transformer Prime is now painful to use and the keyboard section has been ditched as it developed a fault so i must get something Android flavoured very soon(like next week) so i am desperate.
I don't know about the S2 in detail, but most Samsung tablets have a similar latency.
Nexus 9 (Android 5.1.1): AudioTrack = 42ms, OpenSL = stable at 5ms (on Android 6, it runs smooth at 40ms, not lower)
Samsung Galaxy S5 phone (Android 5.0): AudioTrack = 80ms, OpenSL = stable at 20ms (optional, but hard to the cpu: 10ms)
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 (Android 5.1.1): AudioTrack = 40ms, OpenSL= stable at 10ms
LG G3 phone: AudioTrack = 40ms, OpenSL = stable at 5ms
Generally, most samsung tablets run by default on AudioTrack at 80ms, but all of them work well with OpenSL, at least at 20ms or even 10ms.
My personal experience with the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro was, against my expectation, very good. The gtab pro tablets are great devices, and they all are very well manufactured. The downside is that they're expensive (actually all good Samsung devices are).
So bottom line:
I would still go for the Nexus 9 and would stay on Android 5.1.1 (only on the Nexus 9).
For its current price there's nothing comparable. The Krait CPU is simply better than most others (the LG G3 phone has almost the same CPU built in).