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In Reply to: RE: PC/MAC based replacement for dcs stack posted by audioAl on June 15, 2008 at 04:04:53
I would be suspicious of the cool and quiet - anything that throttles the cpu (which is what that does) is going to create switching noise. There is a function on the mac which does this called napping, turning that off made a big gain.
If you want to reduce noise go to quietpc.com lots of great stuff on fans etc. Personally I use a laptop that specifically picked out for audio as I can turn off napping (its a g4 mac) and one that the fans pretty much never come on. The results are spectacular if your willing to dial it in.
I bet you could come out even better than the mac if you tweak your pc, I believe while the mac offers a great bit-perfect playbaack, that the software (foodbar and cplay) for the pc is much more mature and high end. Maybe some day i'll try out the pc, but for now im just enjoying the music.
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8086, would you please tell me what you mean by "napping"? It sounds like the snooze in System Preferences. (My Mac is a PowerBook G4 and its OS X Leopard 10.5.3 is in French so the translation may be confusing me).
Before I switched back to a Mac I built my own PCs and one of the few things I miss is all the component and BIOS flexibility I used to have.
FWIW I think I have heard some people now install Linux on their Macs.
Also, my wife has a Mac too, a MacBook. I installed VMWare Fusion and Windows XP Pro on her MacBook, mainly because she needed just one Windows program and I was curious as to how well the virtualization would work.
Anyhoo, I will eventually try to test a music setup with Linux on a Mac and/or Windows on a Mac via VMWare/Windows.
if you install the CHUD tools, and then go to "developer" and extras there is a preference pane called processor. It allows you to turn off "napping" which throttles the CPU somewhat, It was a big problem with g5's and recording studios introducing noise. It really smoothes out the sound and gives a lot of extra finesse.
- https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=19886 (Open in New Window)
8086, thanks much !!!
I had a Developer's account when Apple switched to Intel but then forgot all about it. I'll install the CHUD tools and look for other stuff too.
Thanks again.
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