[LAU] Value of low-latency in audio?

Just wondering. Without an RT kernel here, my 2 laptops seem to run my simple audio needs pretty well at 64msec latency. At least, it's never bothered my playing along with computer-generated audio. I don't do any heavy-duty audio work here. Once I tried Jackrack, put one effect in it (that worked) or one amplifer (that worked) but trying to use both didn't. But I don't know if that had so much to do with latency or lack of RT kernel as with a smallish amount of memory and an underpowered processor driving the whole thing. Now that I''ve upgraded the memory on both laptops, perhaps it would work? On musicbox, with 512MB, using a single good quality (larger) soundfont was enough to cause problems. With 768MB in it, it works without problems. I see people on the list running much lower latencies than 64msec, and seemingly trying to get even lower ... So, just wondering. -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community