[LAU] hardware - Intel CPUs

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 06:13:03AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
 
> For an analogue board, small fraction of a millisecond, for a digital 
> board, anybodies guess. A/D and D/A's are essentially pretty quick, but I'd 
> still put most digital boards above a millisecond.

It can be less. This is one of the reasons for using 96 kHz.
If you let the anti-aliasing filters start to roll off well
below the Nyquist rate they can be very short. The latency
is essentially inversely proportional to the width of the
transition band of the filters.

Ciao,

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