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Core audio makes bringing devices like this to market much easier. So apogee, an audio, rather than computer, company, didn't want to go through the work it took to get it to sound as good with windows. Who can blame them. After all, a mac mini + a duet is cheaper than a benchmark w/ usb, and includes a top notch ADC taboot.
I don't see why it would be any more difficult to make it sound good with PC. Nowadays you have many devices which support both Windows and OSX. Do these devices sound different when driven under Windows than compared to OSX?
Headphoneus Supremus aka JP-nums or JP-numbers Lead Organizer for Can Jam '09
Originally Posted by Patu
I don't see why it would be any more difficult to make it sound good with PC. Nowadays you have many devices which support both Windows and OSX. Do these devices sound different when driven under Windows than compared to OSX?
funny you should ask
Wavelength seems to think apple sounds best and empirical audio seems to think windows?
The Duet as has been mentioned in this thread was designed to work with Core Audio from Apple
The windows equivalent of core audio resamples everything to 48/16. Since this is almost never desirable, it means that anyone that wants something better than that has to go with something else, which requires more work. Specifically, benchmark felt like they had to write their own drivers from the ground up, for example. By using Apple Core Audio and firewire, apogee was able to code to a standard, and have things work exactly the way they wanted without additional effort. It makes a difference. Include 1 chip (firewire support) vs jump through the hoops it takes to get usb sound to sound good on windows.
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mac mini -> apogee duet -> tooleaudio balanced mosfet amp -> luxman lv-113 -> home theater direct level 3 bookshelf speakers
mac mini -> apogee duet -> tooleaudio balanced mosfet amp -> grado/headphile zebra hf1s
tooleaudio denon dvd2900 -> tooleaudio balanced mosfet amp -> grado/headphile zebra hf1s
1st gen ipod shuffle 1gb -> Altec Lansing iM616
"And so that's how a silly joke turned into one of the seminal rock songs of all time"
Wow, not feeling the love. I'm enjoying my Duet as well.
Oh, sorry. Glad you are enjoying yours as well. You too Grawk! :P
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Moon Audio modded Original CD-2008MK-II / de Almeida Signature Shadow XLR / McAlister Audio Massive Attack / Headphile modded BlackGold recabled AKG K340 OR APureSound V3 recabled Grado RS-1
I don't have one, although odds are good I'll pick one up. I'm just pointing out technical details as to why things were done the way they were. Apogee is a good company, and I've owned a few of their converters, and currently use a minidac.
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mac mini -> apogee duet -> tooleaudio balanced mosfet amp -> luxman lv-113 -> home theater direct level 3 bookshelf speakers
mac mini -> apogee duet -> tooleaudio balanced mosfet amp -> grado/headphile zebra hf1s
tooleaudio denon dvd2900 -> tooleaudio balanced mosfet amp -> grado/headphile zebra hf1s
1st gen ipod shuffle 1gb -> Altec Lansing iM616
"And so that's how a silly joke turned into one of the seminal rock songs of all time"
Headphoneus Supremus aka JP-nums or JP-numbers Lead Organizer for Can Jam '09
Originally Posted by grawk
I don't have one, although odds are good I'll pick one up. I'm just pointing out technical details as to why things were done the way they were. Apogee is a good company, and I've owned a few of their converters, and currently use a minidac.
I think Irondreamer has mini dac so we can head 2 head them ay the Feb 2nd meet
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