#Griffin ifire pro#
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#Griffin ifire mac#

If your audio output jack is a small round jack (1/8' mini), get a 1/8'-to-RCA adapter cable like the Radio Shack 6' right-angle 42-2483, 3' gold 42-2550 or 6' gold 42-2551. Most consumer amplifiers use RCA input jacks. No matter what you have, connect to your amplifier (stereo system, receiver, etc) with the right cable. Add FireWire with a PCI card in your dektop or a cardbus (PCMCIA) card in your laptop, but be careful regarding card compatibility. All recent Macs have both FireWire (IEEE 1394) and USB some have USB 2.

#Griffin ifire software#

Make sure that an interface is compatible with your OS, and check that your software will 'see' the interface. USB 2 (480 MB/sec) is much faster than USB 1, so don't bother with a USB 1 interface. FireWire 800 (800 MB/sec) was promising but did not last long in the marketplace. When deciding on the best protocol to connect with, FireWire (400 MB/sec) is much faster than USB 1.1 (12 MB/sec), which can choke on just a few channels. For audio recording, plan for the price of additional hard drive storage and a viable backup method. Then you can add an external mic pre with an ADAT output, such as the Focusrite OctoPre (with ADAT Interface card) or the Presonus Digimax. If you need more microphone preamps, get an interface with an ADAT input. Many manufacturers advertise '6 inputs' but some are digital (S/PDIF, ADAT optical). Technically these are not 'soundcards,' a term which really only applies to PCI card interfaces.Д«e careful to note the actual number of physical analog inputs/outputs that an interface has. Go for a FireWire or USB interface instead, for 'hot-swap' flexibility and for use with laptops. Many new computers don't have PCI slots, so these days PCI soundcards are an unnecessary pain. The old term 'soundcard' was used back when our only choice was a circuit board which had to be installed in your computer's PCI slot.

The physical unit with input/output jacks is usually referred to as an 'interface' (or sometimes an 'I/O' or 'breakout box'). There are dozens of outboard interfaces available which have better quality A/D/A converters, more I/O channels and extras like a volume knob. The mini-jacks built into top-of-the-line Macs and PCs use the same junky converters found in the cheapest computers.

I would greatly appreciated any insight that any of you could provide.A quick introduction to improving computer audio quality with an audio interfaceДЇace it, your computer's built-in speakers and sound jacks are weak! One simple, inexpensive change will make everything sound MUCH better.ДЄ/D converters ( Analog-to-Digital input) and D/A converters ( Digital-to-Analog output) are the chips that handle audio Input and Output (I/O). So I'm still stuck undecided, there must be a solution, either a cheap regular mains powered amp or a USB amp which can be confirmed as working on a Mac. However ВЈ35 - ВЈ40 for these items doesn't even include any speakers and seems ridiculously expensive compared to the Trust Amp and speakers.

#Griffin ifire mac#

(scroll down, it's the clear choice prospeaker breakout cable.Д¬ombining those two products (the iFire and the breakout box) I'd have an Amp which was Mac compatible and I could plug any speakers I like into the standard connections - provided they will work together.

#Griffin ifire pro#

So then I saw some other Griffin products which might help: The iFire is a firewire adaptor which gives Apple Pro speaker support to other computers like mineД«ut I don't have Apple Pro speakers so I thought about this Unfortunately it doesn't actually appear to be an amplifier. So then I looked around some more and sort of settled on the Griifin iMic which contrary to its name can actually be used to output sound as well. Has anybody successfully used this product with a Mac? The former seems ideal, it's only a tenner or so and I can always get some better looking speakers, I might be building my own boxes anyway. So I looked at USB amps, because that'd save me having to use an extra electrical socket and solve the battery issue with a single stone, but the only ones I've found don't claim to work on the Mac: But I don't want to have to change batteries.

#Griffin ifire Pc#

So you'd probably suggest a set of pc speakers. I'm not looking to blow the roof off or anything, its just that unpowered speakers that I do have are not up to the job. I don't know anything about amps, amperes, ohms, and stuff like that. What I wanted was a small amp, enough to power two small-ish speakers. I've already put in place the speaker wire necessary and just have to connect it up at each end.

The speakers are not in the same room as the Mac. It sounds simple on the face of it, but bear with me. I'm looking for a really cheap solution for wiring up some speakers to my G4.

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Second, apologies if this is in the wrong section, feel free to move somewhere more relevant.