Equinox Sound Latency

[Dubious]

Latency should not have anything to do with recovery speed setting--unless, of course, the Nox is doing something wonky and needs to be reset. It's simply the delay between when the Nox tries to transmit the encoded sound and your headphone speakers/drivers turn the signal back into sound. Aptx low latency represent a huge improvement for bluetooth, but far from being the best wireless scheme. Actually, for lowest latency, don't use wireless; use wires :)  

[Chase Goldman]

23 hours ago, parkgt said:

I would think the latency would only show up if your increase in recovery speed also caused you to swing significantly faster.

True but there is another possible, related factor that can come into play, see below.

31 minutes ago, Dubious said:

Latency should not have anything to do with recovery speed setting--unless, of course, the Nox is doing something wonky and needs to be reset. It's simply the delay between when the Nox tries to transmit the encoded sound and your headphone speakers/drivers turn the signal back into sound. Aptx low latency represent a huge improvement for bluetooth, but far from being the best wireless scheme. Actually, for lowest latency, don't use wireless; use wires :)  

In addition to the swing speed issue noted by parkgt above (where a quickly swung coil tends to "bracket" the target when subject to latency based delay) the higher recovery speed can also enable closely spaced targets to sound off in staccato fashion.  If the time delta between staccato hits approximates the latency delay, then the effect is similar to quickly scanning a single target above which will tend to show the entire group of targets as shifted right or left depending on the direction of the coil swing.  So in this respect, for either case (fast swing speed, or multiple, closely spaced targets) which are enabled by higher recovery speed, the latency effect becomes perceived as a lateral shift in target location with respect to the coil vs. actual position.  That being said, I think the single target bracketing due to high sweep speed will be the most noticeable to the detectorist.