I want to hook my samson mixer up to my mac through this. How clean is the sound through this? Im looking for no buzzing. THX!
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I was digitizing low quality cassette tape to MacBook files. It worked well for that. I don't know how it'll work for high quality sound. Sorry. My gut feeling is it would do fine but.....
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You can get a RCA to 3.5 cable and that will do the job. Something like this:Dynex 3.5 mm Mini to RCA Stereo Audio Cable - 6-Feet - 1.8 MHowever, if you are getting a DAC, you can use a USB DAC or optical DAC (most macbook pro support optical out)
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I keep the level of this pretty high when I feed it into a power amp (15 watts) for lower volume practices. While i have never plugged it into a headphone amp I have plugged it into my mac for direct recording some with good success. I hope this helps a bit.
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I have been using a pair of these speakers live for about 6-7 years now. They are not noisey at all either with my mackie mixer or my newer Behringer mixer. I suspect your mixer is introducing the noise.
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The only noise you should hear is the drive spinning, I wouldn't classify that as a buzzing noise. There really shouldn't be any noticeable noise at all!! I've had for over two years and have used in some rough environments, no issues at all!
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I'm on a Mac so no. However, Peachtree support was great when I had a question. The DAC offers such amazing sound for the price so any short-lived driver hurdles would be worth it.
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I get a similar problem from some M-Audio DX-4's that stay with my home computer. It sounds like data transfer and its only noticeable when its quiet in the room. Time Warner Cable came out and could not find the problem. Like you, I assume it has to do with the proximity of my PC. The Presonus monitors are in my studio over 3 feet away from my Mac Book Pro and are dead silent. Most monitors are shielded to prevent most interference. In the studio, I do run all power thru a Furman Power conditioner for both protection from power spikes and noise filtration. You might want to look into that or try the obvious, and move the computer. Good luck! I get a similar problem from some M-Audio DX-4's that stay with my home computer. It sounds like data transfer and its only noticeable when its quiet in the room. Time Warner Cable came out and could not find the problem. Like you, I assume it has to do with the proximity of my PC. The Presonus monitors are in my studio over 3 feet away from my Mac Book Pro and are dead silent. Most monitors are shielded to prevent most interference. In the studio, I do run all power thru a Furman Power conditioner for both protection from power spikes and noise filtration. You might want to look into that... » Read More I get a similar problem from some M-Audio DX-4's that stay with my home computer. It sounds like data transfer and its only noticeable when its quiet in the room. Time Warner Cable came out and could not find the problem. Like you, I assume it has to do with the proximity of my PC. The Presonus monitors are in my studio over 3 feet away from my Mac Book Pro and are dead silent. Most monitors are shielded to prevent most interference. In the studio, I do run all power thru a Furman Power conditioner for both protection from power spikes and noise filtration. You might want to look into that or try the obvious, and move the computer. Good luck! « Show Less
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Works great with my iMac. I have a small M-Audio keyboard and the application for that discovered the mic (with the Icicle attached) immediately. No hum, no noise, no problems. The only issue I have is the volume control on the side of the Icicle. I need "a repeatable and consistent output" for my mics and it's much too easy for that knob to be moved when handling the mic/Icicle. I also agree that the build quality doesn't seem very solid...but it does work without issues.
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Yes it is. Just plug it in and it will just work, just like a mac :) Drag and drop the sound files to wherever you want. It really is that simple.
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from a power perspective, both the vali and magni can power your headphones quite well. they have a very different sound signature though. the magni is more neutral sounding, it doesn't add much coloration to the sound. the vali though, being a tube amp, will have a warmer sound signature. I do not own those headphones nor have I heard them. so I ask you, do you want a warmer or more neutral sound signature from the amp? honestly either way I think you'll be happy. ok how to hook them up...do you have rca outs from the computer? if so, just plug the red/white outs to the red/white ins on the amp, and turn your computer volume to max. set the amp volume low and adjust to preference. if you don't have rca out from the computer, get a simple headphone to rca splitter cable. the cable will have a 3.5mm headphone jack on one end, and two rca cables on the other end (red/white). plug the headphone jack end into the headphone jack in the computer, and the rca cables into the amp. again do the same with the volume as before. bam, done! ok I'd suggest adding a dac. I know I know more crap to deal with. but a good dac/amp really cleans up the signal from the computer. I run the schiit modi dac (and magni amp). I've listened to the magni amp plugged directly into the computer. its ok. plugging the modi and magni in was better. night and day better? probably not. noticeably better? yep! its something to think about. if you're new to the headphone game start with the amp alone and get used to it. see if you start noticing deficiencies in your sound, like computer noise, hiss, etc. if you do and its offensive, add a dac. hope this helps! ps - to hook up the dac and amp, it's easy. plug the dac into the computer via an available usb port. get a pair of rca cables (red/white) and hook them up from the dac to the amp. that's assuming you have independent units like the modi and magni or vali. they have all on one units and that's even easier. one usb cable. good luck!
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No I don't think that sound is normal because I am not hearing it.......and I do use my Mac everyday!!
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I used my soundcard for recording and playing music, also for games. There are two RCA output connectors, hooked up to my Samson XP150 mixer/monitor and or Behringer powered monitor 125 watts each. It sounds great, just use the appropriate signal cable, RCA to a 1/8"stereo or RCA to XLR or 1/4"phone jack.
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The easiest way is to run a RCA Y-cable out of the headphone jack. That's what I do from my iPod. Otherwise for better sound you'd need to feed the macbook into a DAC and then connect that to the amp.
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Never cared for on-board laptop sound cards. With this it is just a standard USB cable. This device just sends the pure direct audio with no compression. Thus process-free audio to feed your mixer or audio chain via a balanced XLR connection. The benefits of course are no hum or line buzz etc.
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I have a 250 as well and have the buzzing. The Kensington web page claims that Kensington will provide a free ground loop isolator if you call and provide your LiquidAUX serial number. I have another problem and was wondering if you had it too. I'm using an iPhone 3GS and have found that the Kensington seems to put out much less audio volume than the Belkin I was using. If my CD audio volume is set to 20, my AUX audio volume must be set to 40 to keep the volume at the same listening level. Do you have this problem too?
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I have not had any issues with mine. Some folks reported issues with buzzing, but was related to the speaker not being tightened down correctly. Buzzing without your bass plugged in sounds like a ground loop problem. Have you tried powering it from a filtered source? (I use a Furman PL-8 which was already inmy guitar rack)
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All you have to do, is to raise the microphone to the upright-position, and it mutes-itself . And, if you have a later Mac O.S., it is totally compatible with a Mac, controllable by the "System Preferences":"Sound"-pane .