I'm capturing audio from other applications on macOS to mix them with other sources in a real time streaming application. I noticed that audio data captured via the new tapping mechanism introduced in macOS 14.2 arrives delayed in my app, when the macOS system device is a Bluetooth headphone, e.g. Apple AirPods. Sometimes this delay is about 300-400 milliseconds, which makes it unusable for live streaming, because the audio is out of sync with the video and also audio captured from other devices. What is confusing to me, is that this also happens when my app does not even use that output device. Is this a known issue? Is there a way around this?

I'm using an AUGraph to mix audio from different sources for a real time streaming application. Whenever the audio device used as the graph's output device is also the Mac's default output device, the measured latency increases by about 35 milliseconds for wired devices. Any idea why this is? Is there a way around this besides nagging the user to not the use the system output in our app?