Wow, you guys are ROCKIN'!!!! It's been a few rough days for me so I haven't been able to catch up on this thread. So much information you all are spitting out I think I'm going to have to create a separate folder and save certain pages for reference points...... hmmmmm wonder how long before that would baffle me?
Thanks again to all the vaulable info you all or provding ofru us.
Fault, I guess I must of caught them between production runs, haven't heard anyting back on ship date so I guess I'll drop an email and find out status. I'm going bonkers checking my email every day.
Regarding the sound out of your Mac... there;s so many factors that come into play and I don't know a thing about Mac's, but I have heard they have good audio (?) I think.
If you're using onboard audio it won't be as good as a dedicated sound card because the cpu is having to do all sorts of things while it is coverting the audio , and also more possibility of noise being injected. But them again newer computers the audio has taken a big step in quality in the past year or wo.
Also I believe you have a laptop, which again I have no experience with, but everything in a laptop is a compromise, not to mention everything is jam packed inside the case.
All I can do is relate my experience with my pc's to give you and idea hopefully. My main rig I built myslef Intel Core2Duo and is 1 1/2 years old,and have a good, high quality and effiecent power supply in it that is roughly a foot above my sound card. I aslo have a failry decent video card which runs on a completey diffrent bus and chip then my soundcard, which Im sure also helps. And my sound cards is a Auzentech Xplosion with rolled opamps in it ( I forget which ones). My 5.1 speaker syatem is logitech 5300's, I think , I got such a good deal on them couldn't pass them up for games and movies. It has a controller that has the headphone jack in it. And right now I use a TotalBitHead out of usb.
When I plug my cans directly into the controller it sounds almost as good as my BitHead. I say alsmot becasue the sound is very similiar, just more refined, and less edgy with the BitHeadout of usb.
My other pc is an ancient run of the mill typical office pc with a intel p3 I think, probably 8 years old or so with crappy onboard audio. It will drive my 580's but sounds thin and tinny. With my Bithead in the usb it probably sounds as good as my main rig. But that is bare bones and I use asio4all on that one.
Sorry I can't be no more help then that, but at least you know there is hope. It could be some sort of conflict, or maybe just a matter of changing some settings or something.
Hopefully some others will be able to offer more help, or check out the copmuters section here for some ideas. My guess would be that you are being limitied from the onboard audio.
Good to hear of your pleasant experience with Graham. In my dealing with him through forums, he is very pleasant,passionate about his music and a genuinely nice and helpful man.
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