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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.

I'm amazingly lazy, but it'd be easy enough to verify. Take a digital recorder. Hook it to the mac's optical out. Record a track. Transfer the track back to the mac. Invert it, and then sum it with the original track. I'm not going to do the work, because I'm happy with the sound I get from my mac, but if you're concerned about the bit perfection of the mac, it's easy enough to test.

Apple did some tweaking with core audio at one point, but certainly current versions of os x are bit perfect if you set them correctly. You have to start itunes after setting the bit rate, and then everything works hunky dory.

I'll take you up on that If you can mod an srd-7 to 620v for me, that'd be great, and I'd probably actually mail off your lemos Actually, those are going out this week, I promise

Ok, the hunt begins.

My signed/limited copy of Snow Crash came while I was at canjam!

What would be the best cheap solution to powering the esp950s?

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I'm interested in the 007t. My esp950s need something like that

I'm going to need to talk to someone about a nice but inexpensive 620v stax/koss amp

I watched 6 episodes of firefly on the various planes this weekend, and I'm sold. It's a good show. Some extremely funny moments. The acting in the first couple and the movie was terrible, tho.

Vicki's R10s weren't at all bass light. They were quite nice.

I sometimes use the butane one. Works ok.

I'd just drop the 1/4 adapter in the mail and be done with him.

Just replace unbalanced ins with unbalanced outs

Here's how: buy inexpensive gear that fits in the budget. Listen for a bit, sell it. Keep proceeds in a paypal account. Always buy with the account linked to the bank account, always sell with the other one

So I can get the VaughnMod TooleAudio Balanced Mosfet Preamplifier back from the jam of cans.

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