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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

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The 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.

That's an incredibly useful trick and now I wonder if there is a small Windows utility that makes it easy to recover similar ghost data?

Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most

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post #3
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The 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.

That's an incredibly useful trick and now I wonder if there is a small Windows utility that makes it easy to recover similar ghost data?

GDB and grep but built for windows.

Or you could use Cheat Engine if you have a fear of terminals.

Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an incredibly useful trick and now I wonder if there is a small Windows utility that makes it easy to recover similar ghost data?

GDB and grep but built for windows. Or you could use Cheat Engine if you have a fear of terminals.

> GDB and grep but built for windows

Beat me to it. Windows would be intolerable for me without MinGW/MSYS[0]. (Sure, there's WSL2, but that's not quite the same, and I was using MinGW and friends long before it existed.)

[0] https://www.msys2.org/wiki/MSYS2-introduction/

Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most

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Ok, buggy software might explain why my M1 speakers, and the motherboard had to be replaced within a year?

Or just a case of bad hardware from the factory. QC is run by humans and sometimes out of spec (aka busted) hardware makes it out of the factory. Was your replacement covered by Apple care?

Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most

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> during the dubstep parts of the song, the snares sound nice and crisp. At those points, the tweeters are probably putting out 2-4x the amount of power they could handle without melting - briefly. But then when the nasty clipped lead comes in, that overloads them a lot more and the safety daemon clamps down on the tweeter volume.

That's called compression.

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