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Spent another perfectly delightful hour or two with my new Apogee Groove, and I'm really liking it. As I suspected, it's very convenient and takes almost no extra space. In fact it's more convenient than listening straight out of my laptop because I can more easily adjust the volume while I'm listening. And it's literally plug and play on OS X.
My previous Mac was a pre- unibody Macbook Pro and the hpo on that was just awful. Which is why I bought my Apogee Duet, actually. Still have it, still use it with a thunderbolt to FW adaptor. But it's way less convenient and not as powerful as the Groove. And it has 30 freaking ohms of output impedance! So the Senn 595's sound poor out of it and the Sony 7506's sound ok but not great. My Grado's sounded awesome out of it, but the FR changes there were obviously to my liking in that case.
With the Groove's current regulated drive, output impedance is a complete non-issue and it will also reduce ringing and overshoot to the extent that it is able.
And it's so small it will fit right in one of the pockets in my laptop case.
But it is not, however, light. It's a pretty dense and hefty piece of equipment, which lends it a solid and quality feel.
It's a keeper!
My previous Mac was a pre- unibody Macbook Pro and the hpo on that was just awful. Which is why I bought my Apogee Duet, actually. Still have it, still use it with a thunderbolt to FW adaptor. But it's way less convenient and not as powerful as the Groove. And it has 30 freaking ohms of output impedance! So the Senn 595's sound poor out of it and the Sony 7506's sound ok but not great. My Grado's sounded awesome out of it, but the FR changes there were obviously to my liking in that case.
With the Groove's current regulated drive, output impedance is a complete non-issue and it will also reduce ringing and overshoot to the extent that it is able.
And it's so small it will fit right in one of the pockets in my laptop case.
But it is not, however, light. It's a pretty dense and hefty piece of equipment, which lends it a solid and quality feel.
It's a keeper!