Dante or XLR what is the win for one mic ?

[Peter la Haye]

Hello I have a SQ5 and I have a Sennheiser digital 6000 with Dante, I don’t use the Dante on my mixer I don’t have the Dante card 🙂
but when I buy the card , I only use it for my Sennheiser digital 6000 is there a win ? situation ? latency quality? or is there no win win situation?

[Tobi]

No win, more latency.

Best Regards.

[Søren Steinmetz]

Not quite sure why it would be more latency?

The 6000 series is digital from transmitter to DA/analog out on the receiver, and digital all the way to any Dante DA converter.

[Tobi]

Hi Søren,
OK — you are right… I revisited my last post:

Dante has a minimal latency of 0.25ms and SQ has a In-Out-Latency of <0.7ms. Lets say, the “input latency” of SQ is less than have the round trip latency, so less than 0.35ms and if you set Dante to 0.25ms (BTW: is it bold to use minimal latency settings?) you may not have more latency than the analog way.

I stay with: still no win if you have to buy a Dante-Card for 1000 bucks… conversion is really not a “sound-problem” these days.

Best Regards,
Tobias

[Søren Steinmetz]

Last part we agree upon completely, unless there is more equipment upgrades soon with Dante capability, it is too expensive for no immiedially gain. 🙂

[Brian]

Dante is great and can really help expand the capabilities of the total audio system. That being said, there is ZERO reason to buy it for the sole purpose of connecting one (or more) wireless microphone receivers. Of course that is assuming you can use analog lines to connect them to the console. If you have some unique facility/situation where it would be impossible to connect via analog lines but could connect via Dante, then obviously that would change the situation.

[Peter la Haye]

Hi thank you so much for your messages, I sometimes feel like I notice a little bit of latancy but that’s because I think I’m paying attention, I now know that dante is not going to save me 🙂 I have to accept it 🙂 thanks

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