The Monkey

Actually that looks exactly like the way the audio guys wired my parents' house.

Ah, that make sense now. Thanks for the clarification.

I didn't consider the two-pronged cable, which is a good idea. I have an external HD that does that. However, I needed the hub anyway as I would have run out of ports.

I got an HRT Music Streamer II for my parents Mac Mini. Just needed a cheap DAC and wanted one that didn't need a power supply. In theory, this DAC fits the bill. In practice, that's not the case. For anyone out there considering the HRT, be forewarned that you very likely will need to run it off a powered USB hub. It appears to simply draw to much power to run reliabily out of a 'puter's USB ports. There are a bunch of posts about this on the internets, but I figured I'd give a heads up here, too.

Thanks for your help, gang. I ended up getting a new hub. But it really is a pain in the ass when you misplace a wallwart, isn't it? Based on this thread, it seems like you really need to replace it with the same voltage rating, but can go with higher current rating, is that a fair summary?

Stop posting long enough to read the welcome PM you received.

Darren McFadden sat on my bench while scoring 1,079 points.

Great first post.

fucking electricity. Thanks guys. Much appreciated, as always.

Yeah, I plan to get a new hub, but I'm at my parents' place in East Hampton and will get gouged. Would a 9V wall wart be a bad thing? I basically don't understand how these numbers work... By the way, the unpowered HRT Music Streamer is a piece of shit because it basically needs to be run from a powered USB hub. Fuckers.

I have a powered USB hub that I'd like to get up and running. However I don't have the wallwart for it. The input is marked DC 7.5V 2.1A. If I can't located the original wall wart, what rating range would be acceptable to use with this thing? Or does it have to be specifically 7.5V 2.1A?

Thanks Greg, but i was pretty good about the stretching. I'm just a fat out of shape bastard and the class was hard. My quads feel like they no longer are in control of my legs. I need painkillers. Now! Regardless, I'm going back next week.

I wonder if that supports or refutes Gruber's argument:

48 hours later and I am sore as all hell. But I really want to go back. Maybe I have found something I'll actually stick to....

Not on your iPhone, bitch!

Just downloaded the FaceTime beta. Looks pretty good. It would be pretty awesome if they could do FaceTime conferencing so you could have multiple friends on video chat. Virtual Meet anyone?

Hopping on the chartreuse bandwagon: Everyday rye: Cognac: After all that exercise yesterday, this all seemed like a fine and healthy idea.

Dusty, thanks, but there are far fewer options on the Mac (at least where I'm looking). As Ric confirms above, it doesn't give you the choice of 88.2, just 44.1, 48, 96. I guess what I now wonder is what technically is happening to the 88.2 file in such an instance. Is it getting upsampled to 88.2 through the Mac? Fucking fuck.

Shelly, from what you describe about his intended use, I think the 2.4 ghz processor should be fine. And like you said, that extra 300 could go toward the monitor, RAM, Amarra...

Anyone? Is the above a dumb question?

Went to a class here with my wife: SoulCycle It kicked my ass. But in a good way. I need to do something to lose weight and get in shape. Maybe this is it.

happy birthday, hirsch!

Bumping an old thread because as usual I'm confused. I want to play a 24/88.1 file from my iMac to the PerfectWave PWD. However, using optic out from the iMac to the PWD does not give me 88.1 as an option. Only 96, which shows up as the sample rate on the DAC. Does that just mean the maximum rate, or is it mucking around somehow? Note that I can output 88.1 using the USB out. So what gives with the spdif?

Macbook Air rumors.