Monitoring Audio During Live Event

My goal is to determine the best way to monitor the audio from the end

user's perspective. I learned the hard way that Connect does not like

activating both speakers and mic on the same device for obvious reasons

but has no problem doing so with a headset. So, it must know if the sound

is going through a headset or through the device's speakers. But when I

try to use simple headphones, i.e. no attached microphone, but still feed

audio through the device's aux input, the audio I hear in the headphones

appears to not be delayed as the audio from the server would be. This

suggests that Connect? or the device itself- is feeding the audio to me

BEFORE it sends it to the server for distribution. I want to hear the

audio AFTER it's gone to the server so that I can most accurately

experience the same conditions as my attendees. If they report choppy

audio but mine is fine, I know that the problem is local for them. That

type of thing.