On July 27, 2017 at 20:55, buzz said...
Sound travels about one foot per millisecond. Even if output from the speakers is perfectly time aligned, when the listener is standing near the speakers in one room, the other room is "late".
When you're in a large room, or in a home with rooms far apart, any such lateness sounds normal -- we've come to expect it. Also, it really matters that the far room is much lower in volume heard in the near room, the effect is minor.
This is not always a problem. In an outdoor restaurant setting we used a Sonos CONNECT to add sound from a sound stage to the house system. Since there is about a 70ms latency between a CONNECT Line-In and output from another Sonos Player, this latency is normally a disaster in a live music system. However, in this case the stage was 70 feet from the house speakers and the listeners. The alignment was perfect.
Lucky you!
