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Originally Posted by kurth
Apple's new headphone output does 96kHZ...which should be sufficient for any monitors...or any video audio...or audio in general. And even if , like on older macs when audio in was only cd quality, many midrange guitar interfaces are only cd quality as well, so what's the difference? Only maybe if you're recording an acoustic guitar with a neumann...and then 96kHZ would still be good. Although fcx supports 192kHZ samples....I can't hear any difference between 192 and 96. Can you? And I'm sure that hollywood film systems use great audio interfaces for their editing suites....but 99% of professionally edited video doesn't use 192kHZ. Most editors use 16bit 44.1kHZ. And DaVinci Resolve doesn't even support 192....and it's more 'industry standard' than fcx. And you listen to soundcloud thru your interface. Really?.... guess you just like buying equipment. I have serious doubts there's any reason to stream soundcloud thru an interface. Can you share your reasoning.
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Humm where to start ? Lets try to simplify the above
First the Headphone output on the new Mac Studio as far as I can tell is an analog output, (not digital)... So what it actually "does" is output line level analog signal , and there is no "does 96kHZ " or any sample rate (96k or otherwise ) involved in its output..
I am guessing what you actually meant is the sound card that feeds it, can support up to 96k ? Here is a hint,,, if your going to try to call out someone for correct terminology (review -preview ) you might want to try using it first...just a suggestion ....
Second Not only is your notion of "sufficient" totally subjective
But the all the rest of your unrelated examples have nothing to with the quality of the computers A/D or D/A conversion or the quality of its analog ins and outs and preamp .... otherwise known as .....its sound card (like I said ) And the sample rate it supports is also meaningless as to the quality (or not) of it's conversion or analog circuitry
So my "reasoning" is real simple The conversion and analog circuitry on my interface is far far superior to any computer sound card (even this new one) not to mention the quality of it's mic pre's. Because if the Mac Studio did have as good of conversion and analog section as my interface,, the base price would start a $6000... not $2000.. So why wouldn't I listen to Sound Cloud or YouTube thru my interface ?
And heck yes I like buying equipment, if I didn't I would not be interested music or home audio recording ... I would play canasta and eat Bon Bon's YMMV.
