Apple and Sony use that same proprietary playbook which has angered me enough to steer clear of their products (as I type this on my 10 year old MacBook Pro)Well, in fairness -- Apple'd only charge $300, and they'd offer it in a palette of pleasant, stylish, and hardware-coordinated colours. Of course, they'd obsolete it in 18 months, due to advancements in technology and aesthetics -- and they'd also brick every product that had used that connector.
Definitely an, "Oh Snap!" moment for us.
(as I type this on my 10 year old MacBook Pro)
Yes, I have the "collection" of PC Laptops that can't be thrown out but can't be used. This is the 2nd MacBook that has given me 10 years. Last one dropped it's HD and I bought this one with the SSD with no more fears. It's a tall pony for the new MacBook these days.Sort of negates the statement that they obsolete products.
I'm also typing this on a 10yo air. About to upgrade, and am mightily pissed off at the price apple is charging for the 32gb ram upgrade. But similar performance windows machines are heading towards similar prices, and I've never owned a windows laptop that is usable beyond 5 years.
So I'm probably going to have to hold my nose and pony up for a new macbook pro.
I held the line on the Apple phone, won't own one. Still burns me because my Android Galaxy won't play well with the MacBook, so stuck with the proprietary issue again.Sort of negates the statement that they obsolete products.
I'm also typing this on a 10yo air. About to upgrade, and am mightily pissed off at the price apple is charging for the 32gb ram upgrade. But similar performance windows machines are heading towards similar prices, and I've never owned a windows laptop that is usable beyond 5 years.
So I'm probably going to have to hold my nose and pony up for a new macbook pro.
Humo(u)r.
You oughta see some of the 'pute hardware in use around here...Apple and Sony use that same proprietary playbook which has angered me enough to steer clear of their products (as I type this on my 10 year old MacBook Pro)
WRT Grounding from PC to DAC, some DACs have full isolation, some don't.
If not, these do the job and aren't expensive;
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Why don’t you try responding to any of the actually decent questions that were directed at you? If you want a decent discussion, that’s the proper start.
It's a shame that it costs so much to send stuff over the pond, even something like a cable which doesn't need a huge amount of padding/protection. Perhaps there's some test we could do ourselves with REW, Audacity, or whatever? Perhaps Linn cables aren't that rare in the USA anyway? The LP12 is well known, of course, and the Linn phono preamps were favourably reviewed in Stereophile, so cables "to match" wouldn't be so unlikely, would they?Oh come on guv'nor - I worked at a Linn/Naim dealership (itself a huge subjectivist minefield) and left the retail side retail in 2004!!!! That's nineteen years and almost a third of my life ago and believe me, the journey's been a rocky but enlightening one since and I ain't given up learning/unlearning more just yet!!!
All the sensible objective 'stuff' and realisations coalesced many years later when I DID do some unsighted comparisons and realised that level differences usually account for any perceived changes within reason. I do remember the odd occasion when I 'thought' I heard a difference and yet nothing was changed from A to B - other tales of the same thing told here, so I'm not alone in deeply un-trusting my ears, especially now with them as they are - the HD25SP on-ear headphones do seem to inject high frequencies better when I'm not wearing the hearing aids for some reason and they're still ok if 'lively' when I am, but that's a different subject
I mention the Linn Black interconnect as to itch a scratch I bought a used one recently to see if it really did appear to change the sound of the CD player I wanted to use it with
Same here, 10-yo MacBook Pro, bought as an Apple refurb so I saved a few £100. I'll do the same again when the time comes. But we digress...Sort of negates the statement that they obsolete products.
I'm also typing this on a 10yo air. About to upgrade, and am mightily pissed off at the price apple is charging for the 32gb ram upgrade. But similar performance windows machines are heading towards similar prices, and I've never owned a windows laptop that is usable beyond 5 years.
So I'm probably going to have to hold my nose and pony up for a new macbook pro.
