MASA audio and meta out-of-sync in decoder when delay compensation is disabled
When the delay compensation is disabled (i.e., -no_delay_cmp is set in both the encoder and the decoder), the audio gets delayed by the core codec by 12 ms. However, the MASA metadata is not delayed at all. As a result, the audio and the metadata are out-of-sync.
This can be seen inside the renderers, where the audio and the metadata are out-of-sync (in practice, the metadata arrives before the audio signals). As a result, the audio quality is deteriorated in contrast to running the codec with the delay compensation enabled (i.e., -no_delay_cmp is not set).
Moreover, this can be seen in the EXT output, where the audio and the metadata are out-of-sync in the produced MASA files.