grawk

fixed that for you

The 2900 chip decodes DSD directly. dunno about others

I recognize those tactics

Nothing about my rig reaches the esoteric levels discussed by many here, but I've had many transcendent experiences with it. Mac Mini, Apogee Duet, DIY M3, modded grados. Most expensive thing was the amp, total rig including the computer and hard drives was very near the $2500 budget for your dac. I'm still not sold on the value of really expensive cd players.

IM616s (airplane phones) SuperFi 3s (no idea, got them in trade for a shuffle, hate them) 3 pairs of im716s (wife's, 2 are still new in package, as backup) I couldn't sell all 5 to get SuperFreqs, let alone UE11s

I don't think 3 headphone rigs qualify regardless, but that's definitely not all I have at the moment. I have 5 pairs of IEMs, 3 ipods, the grados, the koss, the speaker setup, and the ksc75s. Then there's the denon, the cambridge, and the apogee as sources, etc. I definitely went off the deep end at some point, and I did it while trying to reduce.

I think I qualified for most of last year, but recently I blew that .

that's why pelican invented god. errr. God invented pelican. 2 $180 pelican cases and you'd be done

Since you retired, I've had my other mot working on a plan for me

just build a kgss for the esp950s

hrm, I'm overtired, I don't catch subtlety right now It took me almost a full day to find the spinal tap thread on the other site.

darn it

He works for you, right?

"I'm not a communist, so we're not using communist shitty software"

If they bother you, block them. Otherwise wtf. It's just ads. I wouldn't mind a "pay $x to get rid of all ads" tho, to support the site without seeing ads

Well, not according to Christopher Guest.

They're better than how you looked most of the weekend

It only voids your warranty for the things you specifically damage if you damage anything. Since that's always true, it's not that your warranty is voided, it's that apple doesn't warrant their product is free from user caused damage. I don't think that's even an apple thing, I think it's covered in US law. They can only exclude damage caused by the user, they can't refuse a warranty repair unrelated to that.

Seconded. Refurbed macbook, upgrade the memory and hard drive on your own (it's simple) rather than paying apple to do it.

Me too

cool, I'll be in touch

It USES core-audio, but it does it's own function calls to core-audio in order to use the highest quality settings. By default, the system uses lower quality, lower impact settings in the sample rate conversion.

That doesn't follow my understanding of things. iTunes has it's own sample rate converter that is separate from core audio. Or more specifically, iTunes uses core audio, but it doesn't use the system settings at any given point, it calls the libraries to set bitrate on startup, and if you change settings after the fact, then you'll get itunes resampling followed by default sample rate conversion which can be worse. http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2008/Jan/msg00273.html

Mr. Reading Comprehension, I never said it was just for itunes. But if you do what I said, it will have iTunes actually do the upsampling when it's playing back.

To get bit perfect output on the mac: In the application "Audio MIDI Settings" which is in the Applications->Utilities directory, plug in your optical cable, set the output to digital output, and set the bit rate of the digital output to the rate of the files you're going to be playing. Then launch your playback application. That's all there is to it. You also have the option of letting itunes do the upsampling, which it does a pretty good job at doing. In that case, just set the sample rate in Audio MIDI Settings to the rate of your choice (probably 96/24). Then launch the playback application. If you launch the application before changing the settings, you get much worse results.