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<blockquote data-quote="terryxpress@yah" data-source="post: 469333" data-attributes="member: 36768"><p>You seem to be talking about using a Mac as the audio source for output to a high fidelity amplifier. No computer, including Mac, has the kind of inbuilt pre-ampflication for high fidelity replay - ok for speakers either side of your computer, as in games etc; but the sound card is there to receive incoming Analog signals ready for digitalization by some software, not to then re-convert from Digital format (and so, sound quality) to an equivalent quality Analog output - on ANY home computer. Burn the music to a CD, or make up a Music DVD that can take 50 hours of music (using software like Toast) and play that on your home surround to preserve the best possible fidelity.</p><p>The other point is, that if you will be using ANY computer for video, make sure of your hard disk capacity. One full video takes up 4.33 GB at a time, so you either need a largish hard drive, depending on how many video files you expect to have on hard disk; or hook the computer up to a high capacity (200-300 GB) external storage hard disk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="terryxpress@yah, post: 469333, member: 36768"] You seem to be talking about using a Mac as the audio source for output to a high fidelity amplifier. No computer, including Mac, has the kind of inbuilt pre-ampflication for high fidelity replay - ok for speakers either side of your computer, as in games etc; but the sound card is there to receive incoming Analog signals ready for digitalization by some software, not to then re-convert from Digital format (and so, sound quality) to an equivalent quality Analog output - on ANY home computer. Burn the music to a CD, or make up a Music DVD that can take 50 hours of music (using software like Toast) and play that on your home surround to preserve the best possible fidelity. The other point is, that if you will be using ANY computer for video, make sure of your hard disk capacity. One full video takes up 4.33 GB at a time, so you either need a largish hard drive, depending on how many video files you expect to have on hard disk; or hook the computer up to a high capacity (200-300 GB) external storage hard disk. [/QUOTE]
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