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Razer Kishi and Audio Delay

  • 15 June 2020
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K
Hi everyone,

I know this isn't particularly a Kishi question, or even a Kishi related issue, but since the Kishi's USB-C port does not support audio passthrough, there is no way to use wired headphones with a Kishi attached.

On my Pixel 2XL, I am noticing that I have pretty significant audio latency when using any Bluetooth headphones (Sony WH-1000XM3 and Jabra 65t so far). I notice it when using local games like emulation through RetroArch, or through cloud gaming like Shadow. Since the Kishi advertises itself as a low latency solution, adding what appear to be hundreds of ms audio delay seems to mar that experience a bit. I've found myself researching Audio codecs and the like, and have tried the native LDAC for the Sonys, AptX (set in Develop Options) as well as I think the normal SBA (Which is all the Jabras support) and there is always significant delay. When I'm streaming PS4 Remote Play, it throws off the lip syncing on cutscenes, and when playing action RPGs like Diablo, there is a noticeable delay after my character shoots on screen and the noise happening.

I know this isn't specific to my headphones as I have a USB-C Bluetooth audio transmitter for my Switch and there is essentially 0 delay with my Sony headphones using that. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to improve this issue and/or do you notice it yourself?

Thanks!
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Razer.Caziel
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Do you experience audio latency only when you are using the Kishi? I honestly think that this is more of a Bluetooth connection limitation than anything else, but I'd also like to check if this has anything to do with the mobile controller at all. *Moving this to the Audio forum, maybe our audio enthusiasts can point you in the right direction.
K
Thanks Caziel!

For others who are are struggling with this, I appear to have gotten some relief by ensuring I was using the right audio codec.I played with setting the audio codec settings in the Developer Options in Android but what I think did it for me was that Sony Headphones app says what codec it's using. It was saying SBC (which I believe is the very basic audio codec) and once I was able to actually get it to switch and confirm that it was LDAC, the audio delay has almost entirely disappeared.

Based on research, if you can use LDAC or AptX (AptX HD apparently doesn't add any more latency), and if you're able to use AptX LL, that's best (but rare in headphones).

Hope anyone else who runs into this can resolve as well, it makes a big difference!
Razer.Caziel
Userlevel 7
@Kinjarin Thanks for sharing this with the community. *Locking this thread as resolved to prevent threadjacking.
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