Bluetooth for IEM? Nope, found out the hard way.

[Esquillama]

I thought I had a brilliant idea. Why not use a Bluetooth transmitter and Bluetooth earbuds as an IEM system?

After buying all of the necessary equipment, I discovered that the latency was too great.

At least I have a good pair of Bluetooth earbuds, and a Bluetooth transmitter that I can use for other purposes.

 

[seamonkey]

There's an AES paper on IEM latency
IEM versus Wedges, and "Effects of Latency on Live Sound Monitoring" | TalkBass.com

It's interesting that we tolerate more latency from floor wedges than we do from IEM
16ms from a wedge is nothing, but in IEM it's torture

 

[morgansterne]

interesting thread about IEM latency . . .