> From experience, I can tell you that 16ms is right around the upper edge of usability > for playing an instrument. Anyone with any experience with an instrument can easily > tell the difference between 16ms and, say, 6ms. For a singer monitoring their own > voice through headphones, the threshold is even lower.
And for a drummer it's lower still.
~5ms latency is just bearable when playing MIDI drums.
16ms is impossible unless you're deaf or not a musician.