Anyone tried this DAC (https://www.audioadvisor.com/prhbs2d-blk?sku=NEW-PRHBS2D-BLK)?
I'm about to give up the good fight and invest in a new Mac laptop sometime in the next year. My Mac Mini is overloaded by the OS upgrades I've been required to make so I can run Turbotax - at this point, it barely falls off a log when I kick it. And while this 2010 iMac I'm currently on communicates nicely with my Tascam UH-7000 interface, Firefox can't be upgraded further because of the old OS that allows the computer to work with the Tascam. Which means keeping track of finances is tough as a lot of sites I access are running newer builds that require much newer versions of Firefox, which would require much newer version of Mac OS, which means it won't work with the Tascam. So I still have to use the Mac Mini for everything but music playing duties, Hmpffff...
And I can't stand two large monitors of different shapes and colors just overcrowding my desk.
Given that this next computer will be needed while traveling and photographing, I plan to buy the biggest honkin' Mac laptop with the fastest processor I can afford while I still have my academic discount and hope the constant OS upgrades don't overwhelm the processor like they've done to my Mac Mini since 2014. I'd like to think the computer could make 15 years (that would put me at 85 and probably not traveling much by then). But a new computer won't interface with my Tascam any more than my Mac Mini will so I need to look into a new interface and I think it will just be a DAC, not a full studio interface that processes both ways like the Tascam.
Which brings me to Pro-Ject's new DAC/headpone amp in the link above. Same case as my VNRS Box, plays everything up to 32 bit/768 kHz and my few DSD files, with a reasonable price - $450. That way, I can hook it up to the Mac Mini now and have a single computer on my desk but which will do both computer things and play my digital files. I'll still bitch about the thing's speed but at least it will again do everything. and then get the new laptop next year.
I've got new hard drives coming, as well to make sure I'm covered for if/when these rocstors crap out. They've been great (and I don' t leave them turned on except when in use) but these things don't last forever. So new Glyph drive are headed my way, courtesy of my friend Adam at Nashville Recording Supply.
I'm about to give up the good fight and invest in a new Mac laptop sometime in the next year. My Mac Mini is overloaded by the OS upgrades I've been required to make so I can run Turbotax - at this point, it barely falls off a log when I kick it. And while this 2010 iMac I'm currently on communicates nicely with my Tascam UH-7000 interface, Firefox can't be upgraded further because of the old OS that allows the computer to work with the Tascam. Which means keeping track of finances is tough as a lot of sites I access are running newer builds that require much newer versions of Firefox, which would require much newer version of Mac OS, which means it won't work with the Tascam. So I still have to use the Mac Mini for everything but music playing duties, Hmpffff...
And I can't stand two large monitors of different shapes and colors just overcrowding my desk.
Given that this next computer will be needed while traveling and photographing, I plan to buy the biggest honkin' Mac laptop with the fastest processor I can afford while I still have my academic discount and hope the constant OS upgrades don't overwhelm the processor like they've done to my Mac Mini since 2014. I'd like to think the computer could make 15 years (that would put me at 85 and probably not traveling much by then). But a new computer won't interface with my Tascam any more than my Mac Mini will so I need to look into a new interface and I think it will just be a DAC, not a full studio interface that processes both ways like the Tascam.
Which brings me to Pro-Ject's new DAC/headpone amp in the link above. Same case as my VNRS Box, plays everything up to 32 bit/768 kHz and my few DSD files, with a reasonable price - $450. That way, I can hook it up to the Mac Mini now and have a single computer on my desk but which will do both computer things and play my digital files. I'll still bitch about the thing's speed but at least it will again do everything. and then get the new laptop next year.
I've got new hard drives coming, as well to make sure I'm covered for if/when these rocstors crap out. They've been great (and I don' t leave them turned on except when in use) but these things don't last forever. So new Glyph drive are headed my way, courtesy of my friend Adam at Nashville Recording Supply.