Since the 1.3 update there has been SMP sound lag. This affects stepping sounds, eating sounds & block placement sounds. When blocks are placed there is a sound lag, by this I mean if a block is placed the sound will not play as but after the block is placed. The sound lag occurs in the same way for stepping and eating. The sound lag has been said to only occur when connecting to far away servers like a server located in another country to which you are connecting from, this is not the case, I know of many people that are still having the sound lag issues when connecting to servers from their own country.

I have seen this problem mentioned numerous times online in forums but have yet to see a mojang employee even acknowledge that the problem exists. The sound lag does get very annoying and I would like to know if it will be fixed anytime in the future. There is currently a mod to fix this problem (https://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1414774-132smp-nosoundlag/) but it would be good to see an official fix released by mojang.