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In Reply to: RE: Here's my ignorant opinion... posted by AbeCollins on September 15, 2011 at 20:05:51
..is causing it? It only does it after it's been playing for quite a while. It doesn't matter if it's hi-rez or whether or not the upsampling is being used w/ Pure Music.
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David,
Not all USB ports are created equal. Use the system profiler found in the utilities folder to find the USB port that is most direct and is not shared with other devices. Remember there are a ton of other devices inside.
Apple Icon-> About this Mac-> More Info will bring it up.
Select USB from the hardware list and it will show your device.
You can hit refresh ounce you have swapped the port.
More memory is advised and pretty cheap and easy to install.
Thanks
Gordon
J. Gordon Rankin
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I'm new to Apple. That was a tip I needed. I 'see' the 2 usb ports on my macbook; one is fairly booked up on the buss with trackpad, bluetooth, keyboard and maybe other necessary stuff. The other just has an IR receiver on the buss, which I disabled (no use). So the usb dac will be going in the latter now by itself. I knew that was there somewhere, but hadn't figured out how to find it. U da man!
Hi Gordon,
Any opinions on clock speed or processor options on the 2011 Mac mini?
For audio use it doesn't matter. I use a 2006 core duo, NOT core 2 duo, iMac for music and it keeps up just fine. Don't get caught up on the speed of the processor or the ram. For that matter I only have 1gb of RAM in mine. I connect via wifi using Twonky media server to my Oppo 93. While it is being the server I can still do other things on my mac without impacting the sound.
The bitrate of CD audio is so low that it just doesn't matter. Hi-res is a little more demanding, but it JUST DOESN"T MATTER!!! You're talking Ghz processors handling Mhz sound. 16X44100x2 = 1.411mhz. 24x96 = 4.6mhz. They handle more than that while you type.
IF you are doing video processing or 3d rendering maybe you need the speed, but not for audio.
..two USB ports and two USB high speed ports. I'll switch to one of the high speed ones tonight after work and see if that works better. Thanks for the tip!
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