In case someone else is looking to connect a DAC to a Powerboook G4, I got confirmation it's just too old. So the laptop is out, I got as a Modi Multibit, I'm using my phone as source and the sound is fantastic!

Ok, off with the laptop. I did find on Schiit's website something about their DAC's "functioning best" w/OSX 10.6 and after, and I have 10.5 Also they mention USB 2 cables all over the place - though without saying USB 1 won't work. Thanks for input.

I have a Powerbook G4 (12yrs old? Old.) running OSX 10.5, a Lyr and Hifiman HE 400i, which produces really good music but I'd like to see if I can improve the sound, so I tried to connect a Bistfrost, connecting it to a USB port (there is no optical sound port). But the laptop wouldn't see it at...

I should have said, the laptop is a Powerbook G4, sorry. No optical out, Headphones and USB only

Hello again. My setup is a old laptop running OSX-10-something and a Lyr and a Hifiman HE 400i and I was trying to add a Bitfrost DAC through the USB but the laptop wouldn't see it. Schiit website says no driver needed for Mac, and they wouldn't reply to my email. Could it be that the OS is too...

Headphones seem to replace your ears with pulsing membranes, and to soften the sides of your head, because they take music straight to the center of your head unimpeded. It feels like your brain has been removed too, because clear, pure sound now fills a whole, empty cranium cavity. But there...

Hello all, I registered because I am always looking if some additional gizmo would improve my setup. I have a Mac laptop, a Lyr amp and Hifiman 400i headphones. Sound is fantastic but would some DAC/? make a radical improvement? e.g. Modi/Uber/Multibit? Who knows? ;)