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Oh I wasn't in any way bothered about the down-vote.
It was the apparent lack of interest in the subject, the reason for todays post was just to confirm my findings regarding that lack of interest.
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Option II: A lot of us here are getting up in years and that's not good for ears.
Even those who didn't blow there ears out with loud music.
Your quest, by the way, could have been deduced by the simple acceptance of 5-10% THD in the noise-makers mindlessly purchased by the modern brook for injection into their auditory canals. On the other hand - considering what's offered in place of music - what's the difference?
In my HS/College days, you were looking toward 0.5% (better cost too much). "Low" efficiency speakers with flat response curves; kind of all the stuff I guess you like.
If you feel like responding to this, please type louder.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If you feel like responding to this, please type louder.
OK NO PROBLEM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY 
I count myself as an oldie too but I can still appreciate well recorded music.
All the latest releases are very compressed and sound like crap I agree, not just the latest pop either, the problem is most listeners think loud=sounds good, so all stuff is released mastered at the loudest possible level without distortion occurring.
That's the main reason MQA is interesting to me, I'm hoping the consumer will get less compressed better mastering quality, of course if MQA does go mainstream then it will be recorded loud too, so in a way I hope it remains unpopular.
I'm mainly a headphone user but the same applies.
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I didn't see your post, but my guess is someone woke up on the wrong side of bed, and saw your post as advertising. Happens every now and then.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I guess so, I didn't post any links though, the post was just attempting to start a discussion. I'm going with the wrong side of the bed theory then.
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55378008 wrote: the average person on the street really doesn't care about audio quality
I would agree with that. It's too bad you don't work with a former colleague of mine. He was very much into sound quality. You two could probably talk all day long about it.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Please send me his email address.
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If you change your screen name to something non-numeric, people might not get the idea that you're yet another bloody newbie who's posting technical questions in the Lounge.
It's a bit of a knee-jerk thing, because we get people like that in here all the time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But I am a number not a name.
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OK, so, in the interests of not having to remember an 8-digit number, I'll divide by 10,000,000, round up, and call you Number Six[^], for short.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I thought that worked out pretty well.
If you'd been 54999999 or below, I'd have had to cheat.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's a Windows thing.
Did you try hiding all the drives that the installer might want to target with it's installation leaving only the C:\ drive visible?
This usually works for me.
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Garfield[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Too bad my screen can't do that when the coffee hits it 
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Hello all,
This weekend my mother in law asked me why suddenly YouTube stopped showing videos at full screen in her MAC.
I've never used one so I told her that the best we could do was going in front of it and trying to see what was happening.
At the end, she has Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it looks like it is so old that all the external services start malfunctioning with it's safari version.
I tried to install chrome, Firefox, opera, tor, Maxthon, and I don't remember if I tried with others, but all of them refused to install in that old OS version.
Given this is an old computer 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR3 RAM memory, I don't know if she should buy the update DVD or not. In the Internet I've read contradictory information about that: some say that it won't work with that computer and some say it will.
What do you recommend? should she buy the DVD? and in case that DVD should be bought... which one? I've seen a lot of them in the Apple store.
PS: she is only using that computer to navigate the internet, seeing painting YouTube videos... so it has not much sense changing the computer.
Thank you all!
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Most likely the processor will not be supported, but best contact a support rep from apple.
If the machine is for net only, perhaps save the time (and money) and put some user-friendly linux on it, it should work.
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Probably an Ubuntu distro would do it, but truly, I would simply prefer to keep it as simple as possible... I can try it, but first let's see what apple and ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) guys/gals say.
Thank you!
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I was under the impression that they gave updates free (no need to buy DVDs).
Maybe the hardware is too old to support anything newer? Can you get her to open the App Store and see whether anything newer is offered for update?
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Yes, they do, but it looks like that not for that old computer.
No updates appear.
In the app store though there are plenty of updates (it looks to me that they are not clean installs but upgrades) but of course, I don't have any idea on what can run there...
Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store...
Thank you.
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Joan Murt wrote: Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store...
yes - book a 'genius' appointment and say 'fix it please'
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By now this looks much more interesting than installing an Ubuntu and pray.
Who knows, if I could find a spare HDD I could try it and let's see...
But anything that involve a screwdriver can lead to the first part of it so...
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A buddy dragged me into an Apple shop to troll me once, and not a single "genius" could explain what "IP" meant, let alone explain it.
But boy could they harp on "gestures"! You know, that old 90's tech that you had to use with the stylus to get a Palm Pilot to recognize letters. Snazzy.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Um...[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The list is out: Most Valuable Professionals[^] and deserved in all cases (except mine, I suspect). Well done all!
Good to see new names in there: it's nice to know there are more people "stepping up to the plate" and contributing to the site. 
For myself, I'd like to say "Thank you" to you all, to my director, my producer, and all the hamsters I had to sleep with to get the username...
And now the bad news: Chris has confirmed that Sean's Mankini has not been captured and destroyed, so there is a high chance he will be wearing it when he delivers your award certificates... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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