150ms is terrible. That's more time than going from London to Los Angeles and back.
Bluetooth definitely is the issue with 95% of these latency issues.
Bluetooth definitely is the issue with 95% of these latency issues.
Crazy that airpods have that much latency. I have bluetooth in the car and it has way too much latency - I thought Apple had improved it to not be noticeable but I never checked the numbers.
Incidentally, for playing midi instruments you generally want things to be below 8ms to feel natural. 150ms is an eternity.
Is the lipsync ok if you watch a video on an iphone with airpods?
For video they compensate for the latency by displaying the visuals slightly delayed (this has been done for over a decade even way back on feature phones).
Even game consoles have the option to do this since some TVs/receivers have audio or video latency.