Audio delay in headphones

[SE1111]

Hi, firstly sorry if this is isn’t the right place to ask for help.

I recently connected my Samsung soundbar to my CDJ’s with a stereo mini jack cable to RCA which goes in my decks.

I get audio, however, when I play the track through earphones to mix, the sound is delayed slightly so it’s impossible to beat match!

would an RCA audio decoder fix this issue? Im
clueless with this type of thing! Thanks

 

[Aquinus]

I get audio, however, when I play the track through earphones to mix, the sound is delayed slightly so it’s impossible to beat match!

Since not every audio device has the same delay characteristics, it's entirely possible that you'll have trouble keeping two audio outputs sync'ed up. I don't know how you can address this in Windows, but I can tell you what I would do in Linux to solve this issue. Most Linux distros these days use PulseAudio for mixing and a latency offset can be specified for each output and input device. I don't typically do this myself, but if I had this problem, I would identify which device has the most delay and increase the latency offset for the device that's responding faster to align the output between the two devices. In Linux with Pulse, I'd use `pavucontrol` to alter these latency offsets.



Something like this might help if you're using Mac OS X, but I don't think Windows allows you to adjust these sorts of things outside of what an individual application would give you (I'm assuming the App would be doing the mixing as well.) I would have to defer to someone else since it's been years since I've used Windows on any of the machines I use.