what does it mean that the Imac speakers were just too much? you can get any speakers you want for the IMac or use the ones onboard which sound fine to me for a lot of things but I got the bose because I wanted the full richness of them.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 9:51 PM Subject: Re: MacBook speakers and the airport express Sounds nice. I've got speakers that can go into a line-in jack and a mixer. I think the Macbook spearkers are great for VO. The IMac speakers were just too much. I may have to get that one day. Thanks for the review. On 12/29/07, Darcy Burnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. I noticed a lot of people have been talking about the > lack of quality in the MacBook speakers. I don't mind them for VO > myself, but I don't like them for much else. One thing I got that I > really like is the airport express with airtunes. If you've not seen > it, it's a little box that looks a lot like the MacBook's power > brick. In fact, you can use the extension cord for the MacBook on the > airport express if you want. > Anyway, you can use it as a wireless base station, or have it join an > existing wireless network. On the side of the unit, there is an audio > jack which you can plug in to a stereo or powered set of speakers. > When in itunes, you can transmit your music wirelessly to the device. > This is great with a laptop because it means your not tethered to one > spot. Also, I like the fact that I have my music and VO coming out of > different places. > By default, only itunes can send audio to the airtunes. But you can > buy a program called airfoil that can stream anything to the airport > express. Airfoil is made by Rogue Amoeba, the makers of audio hijack > pro. > There are a couple of downsides to the airport express. First and > foremost, it's not cheap. It's about $100 if memory serves. If you > already have a nice sound system to plug in to, this may be worth your > while. Otherwise, it may not. The other drawback is that it won't > play ogg files through itunes, even with the quicktime plugin. If you > have ogg files, it's easy enough to transcode them however. > Anyway, just thought some of you might be interested in this. I got > mine about a week after itunes became accessible, and I consider it > money well spent. > Darcy > > -- John Moore
