Hi all! Just got my new Macbook yesterday and I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised at how good they sound. I haven't determined exactly where the speakers are in the computer itself yet <lol>. I was actually warned against getting the new Macbook, I was told that the speakers were incredibly quiet and lacked bass, if the first point was true then this would have ben an issue for me as I have a hearing impairment and I may have had to consider using external speakers. I'm glad to say however that these things boast plenty of volume and plenty of dynamic range so bass or the top end isn't a problem, more than acceptable in my view for a notebook device. Now here's the really interesting bit as far as audio goes, like my Imac the Macbook has both analog and digital in and out for sound, I've played a DVD on this model and connected it directly to my surround-sound receiver which I reviewed here about 2 years ago, results were spectacular with all the surround-sound functionality working as it should. You can of course, connnect something like an Imic for added audio flexability, I will be doing this so that I can have one device dedicated to record/playback and the other completely devoted to speekc, system sounds, playing audio "on-the-fly" and so forth, the excellent recording software Audio Hijack Pro and the excellent audio editing software Sound Studio will of course be an absolute must for this notebook too. FInally, I'm using Fusion to run a WIndows XP virtual machine with Window-eyes and no problem with audio either though you have to tell Fusion when you've plugged in the Imic if you want to use it with Windows XP and associated software such as Winamp or Total Recorder, this is done through a menu which pops up in fusion, these menus pop up for all connected devices to your Macbook and give you choices on how you want Fusion and Windows XP to connect to them, I think there's an "auto-detect" mode somewhere in there too. Hope this was of interest to some people, I could go further in my discussion of the Macbook but... welll... this is an audio list <lol>
Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
