These look interesting and definitely cheaper than Boss Waza
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This is interesting. Did I read it right 3.8 milliseconds of latency? Waza air is 32 ms.
1/4 inch direct input is also very interesting option. I hope they are including the light weight 1/4” cable with it.
Didn’t mention anything about bass compatibility as they usually do.
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If only I hadn’t just used my tax return on new tires… these look nice.
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I’d get one just to see. Positive Grid UI is much better than Roland. It feels modern.
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Yeah, I like their UI and easy access to ad free backing tracks with chord charts.
You can stream any Bluetooth from your phone etc so not limited to just what they offer.
I didn’t see any specific mention of latency other than “ultra low”. Hopefully it is just that.
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On the spec page it listed latency as 3.8 ms. It’s quite remarkable. I bet you it’s a typo 38ms is more realistic.
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I did a little digging on the FCC site and there were a couple shots of the internals. The headphone to guitar dongle link looks like a pair of Telink TLSR9517 bluetooth 5.3 audio chips.
Datasheet I found doesn’t offer a spec for audio latency, but does mention this which sounds like they might have some degree of special sauce in their chip:
Telink-patented technology for true wireless stereo and 1+N hearable devices with synchronized playback and balanced power on all devices
Apparently 5.3 on its own can do <10ms audio latency and isochronous channels can do 5ms packet latency, so if this chip vendor has a bit of extra proprietary low latency stuff it might actually be getting down in the <5ms realm.
Chip vendor’s page with quite a bit of documentation is the first hit on google for TLSR9517, there might be an audio latency spec buried in there somewhere.
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I looked at every piece of spec info available for the Spark Neo online, and the Spark folk seem to be sticking to their latency claim of 3.8ms. We have to wait for the final product to be released. Time will tell if this claim is valid, or not.
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3.8ms latency is very possible with propriety wireless protocolls (not Bluetooth).
It’s very likely that they use the same technology as the Spark Link, which has 3ms latency
Even my old/cheap Lekato MS-1 has 12 ms latency, which is very hard to notice…
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Yes, many of the 2.4 Ghz can do when transmit only one signal, the instrument signal. things get more hairy with you include the audio track and effects signal.
Anyways, it just became available this morning so I just ordered one. I’ll see what I can do to record the track.
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My Xvive U2 wireless system specs 5 ms of latency. I don’t notice any. The Spark system may be slightly less, but I’m not going to spend 149 € for an “improvement” I don’t notice and can’t hear.
@Al1885 have you tried them now? I want to order them today and thought about your impression.
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Not yet as it was just available to order yesterday. I’m hoping that it would be here in a few days. If memory serves me right, positive grid office is about 10 miles from me. I’ll let you know.
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Super, thank you. I ordered one anyway but I’m very interested what you think about it.
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They are really great about honoring warranty. I preordered the Spark 40 an every 5-6 months the output jack would just fall and produce only white noise. They replaced it 3 times for me. The third one failed even before the second one was returned. Now I’m on my 4th one and having no issues since.
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I’ve had no issues with the spark 40 or the go but I’ve sold them both as I bought the katana go. I still have the spark mini and I’m happy with it.
I hope the headphone speakers are good for the low frequencies of bass.
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It’s just delivered, 
It’s really well made and feels premium, ear cups are every bit as soft as the WazaAir the braided usb C is a nice touch.
I bought this Sennheiser Ambeo headset a while ago and never opened it yet now I can do review on both the Neo and WazaAir.
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I’ll be interested to know what they actually do-looking at the site I see a lot of advertising words