Off topic: it's such a breath of fresh air to read this content without 1) having to close half a dozen popups and 2) all in a single post and not painfully spread out across multiple messages.
A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
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Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#62Is this post part of a longer one? Because after reading it I still don't understand a thing.
Did they mean it's done in software (i.e. not hardware)?
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#63Except they don't? I hate the speaker sound on the Mac I use for work. Unless "so good" in the title means "not as awful as other shitty laptop speakers", but even that is a poor statement, when the text in the link makes only mentions some vaguely interesting technical musings, without comparing it to anything else. The way the title is written makes it sound just like any other inane data point of people gushing ov…
The speakers are amazing on my M1. I'm constantly surprised how beefy bass and clean sound they can produce. Don't recall them being so great on my previous MacBooks though.
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#64My Mac speakers sound like shit because running a loud filter sweep in VCV Rack will break them and make them sound buzzy forever.
That sounds like something a warranty repair should cover.
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#65This is curious reading since my Intel MacBook speakers crackled all the time as it grounded through me.
Before anyone jumps in to say the issue is grounding and that it's your fault for having bad wiring: ground wires are not installed by default in all countries. If you live in one of these countries, in rented accomodation, there's not much you can do about this. And yet, most electronics are fine. It seems like MacBooks are some of the worst though, giving you shocks and crackling audio.
No grounding on Mac adapters by default, they’re only 2-pin. The 3-pin is available separately.
Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#66Off topic: it's such a breath of fresh air to read this content without 1) having to close half a dozen popups and 2) all in a single post and not painfully spread out across multiple messages.
Once upon a time this was called a “blog post”.
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#67Is this post part of a longer one? Because after reading it I still don't understand a thing. Did they mean it's done in software (i.e. not hardware)?
It’s a mix of hardware and software. Hardware monitoring and software control, if I understand things correctly.
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#68The speakers of the mac mini sounds absolutely horrendous!
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#69The post is interesting itself, but the addendum, > This post brought to you by gdb and grep -a Where author recovers text from Firefox core dump, is just hilarious.
Yeah I was going to ask how does FF know about Mac speakers, but I was not expecting that
(Neither that it would have kept the text there, I guess he was lucky)
Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
An audiophile opinion: there are so many good cheap systems out there, why would you mistreat poor hardware this way? - Any number of excellent in-ear monitors under $100 - Truthear Zero ($50) - Quite a few good-to-excellent headphones under $200, and under $50 if you can run a convolver equalizer for them - Superlux 668B ($35) - Several excellent powered monitor speakers regularly on sale under $450/pair (JBL 305, 3…
Maybe we just don't want to constantly wear crap on our head?
Counterpoint: your neighbors don't want to hear the crap on your laptop speakers