![]() My conclusion.if you're tapping on the mini, say the pattern for CCR guitar Chaka Chaka for Looking Out My Back Door.the Apple sounds better. I tried the same thing on a Win10 laptop and what a difference! I tapped towards the top rear area of the lid (plastic) and my finger tapping was noticeably more mellow. “I can tap out a beat with my fingers on the side of a Mini and it sounds ok.a little bright, solid metal kind of sound. I’d love to be making this up as a PC would be so much cheaper to build to a higher spec! I wondered whether it was because CoreAudio uses floating point and so reproduces a more accurate representation of the original input? I can only put it down to the difference in drivers. The PC playback made the instruments sound better knitted together (more cohesive), but further away - less real - and it was less easy to listen to detail. In fact I repeatedly listened to the ARO2 demos and found better separation of instruments from the Mac. I compared both in the same DAW (Ableton 11) and audio streaming via a web browser. ![]() Using the same output chain (Presonus 2626 over Thunderbolt, 48kHz sample rate, Sennheiser HD600 headphones) the PC sounded worse - muddier. So I pulled out a 3 year old HP i7 laptop Windows PC with 16GB to see if I could get away with it - and thats when I noticed a change in audio quality. I need a new computer as 8GB of RAM in an M1 MacBook Air isn’t cutting it. ![]() I was hoping someone here might be able to corroborate or contradict my experience: ![]() Does anyone have any experience of, and opinion on, the sound quality difference between PC’s and Macs? ![]()
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