I'm not a huge stickler for mobile sound quality as I'm usually listening in loud environments such as coffee shops anyhow. BUT, the output via the 3.5mm jack on a 2021+ Macbook Pro 14" sounds REALLY good. Typically, I listen to streamed music from PC or Mac laptops via an Audioquest Dragonfly...

I bought my first DAC ever after reading for weeks about how to improve audio quality so landed into de Ifi Zen Dac V2, also moved to Tidal. This set up changed the way how I thought I knew about music, silly me, how come in 37 years old of existence I never thought that a DAC and Service...

As Daniel L has reported, Apple is improving it's headphone port for quality and to drive sensitive kit. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/macbook-pro-m1-pro-max-3-5mm-output.960345/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212856 If anyone has experience of it and knows its quality and/or its...

Hey guys. I just updated my 2011 Macbook Pro to (unofficial) Catalina as well as convert my drive from HFS+ to APFS. So far everything has been working fine and fluently, except Audirvana. Audirvana is a huge laggy mess, even on High Sierra it was but now it's worse. It lags on the album view...

Right now I have a RHA MA750 that I'm fairly happy with, but I'd like to have a wireless option for listening while commuting and in the office, without cables getting in the way. I'm not an audiophile, but I also don't want trash audio gear. It must be small, so over-ear headphones is kinda...

Hi guys, So a couple months ago I purchased a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 1770 pros, and have been running them with my Macbook Pro 2017 (no touchbar). I think the sound quality is great, and I usually listen at half volume what my mac is able to deliver. I'm curious to know whether a dedicated DAC...

Hey there. I have a linux distro called nitrux OS running on my Macbook pro (based off ubuntu with KDE Plasma home). so one day I connect my external hard drive to my computer, and listen through ANY music player and NOTHING comes out. on deadbeef, i have to resample to 48khz max to be able to...

Just finished my new living room set up and I wanted to share it with others who might want to integrate computer audio with their home theater. I’d been using a first gen AppleTv modified with a larger hard drive for Apple lossless to my Marantz receiver via hdmi. That sufficed for easy...

I have: • macbook pro (early 2015) • westone 4r headphones (IEMs?) I have a bunch of 24 bit / 96 kHz music files, and I wondered if there was anything I could do to improve output sound quality on my simple setup. I understand that the OS utility "Audio MIDI Setup" can be set to 24 bit / 96...

So I was changing the output sample rate on my MacBook Pro in the Audio Midi Setup when I thought, do I always have to manually change the output to the song's corresponding sample rate to properly enjoy my music? The DAC doesn't automatically switch to the proper sample rate? What happens if...