I think we can agree that Apple's biggest costs for the towers were in the casework and multiple power supplies. The more I read from you each about better sound with fewer processors running and slower clock speeds-combined with the preference for a G5 over Intel PowerMacs-the more I think that some attention ought to be paid to the possibility that a certain model of mini, combined with a robust linear PS (Bolder or better), could equal or surpass the performance of the huge and noisy old G5 towers.Īs others have said, it is not likely that the USB chips and other small supporting circuit elements on a G5 motherboard were more premium than in a mini. differed, and I did not read specs on the mini model used. I think connection, OS, s/w, music storage, RAM, etc. Although one of you bought the Bolder PS, I don't recall reading a level-field comparison between his Bolder-mini and the G5 tower. It sure seems that the stock power supplies should be the largest un-equalizer. Not to hijack the fascinating G5-tweaking thread, but I'd enjoy coming back to some "first-principles" to try to get to the root of the reason you guys are preferring the sound of the big fan-ladden towers over the quiet, compact mini. Of course it is apples to oranges here (digital lines and voltage on separate wires). Can someone point me to a USB spec showing which pins have the power wire? I have plenty of cheap USB cables to hack up and experiment with.įunny: Although I've never believed in (nor disproved in my own system) the benefits of interconnects with "DC biasing" (of the shield I thnik via batteries ala Audioquest), those advocating removal of the voltage line on USB and FW cables are taking the opposite position. And I guess one would want to cut that wire at the sending end. Or are you saying that doing that trick with FW interface hard drives (for music library storage) is supposed to have some benefit?! The former I could understand, the latter seems a bit crazy.Īs for USB: Has anyone here observed real sonic benefit from cutting the USB voltage feed line on a cable feeding a USB DAC? If such is the case-with a DAC that does not run off USB power obviously-then I guess it is the presence of the DC voltage around the length of the USB cable that is being detrimental. ![]() The steps seem lengthy, but only take a few minutes at most.Please tell me that the SQ improvement (or one that you are expecting once you try) from lifting the power feed line on firewire cables is just for those of you using firewire-connected DACs. You'll still see the warning icon in the window, but the speed bump warning you about the cert will now be gone. Once the cert is added to the key chain, double click it and set it to "Always Trust" in the Trust area.Add the cert to your key chain - you can select login (user) or system (everyone). ![]() Double click the cert in the downloads directory.It should be in the "Certificate Authority Information Access" section. Scroll down to the section that contains a URI for the domain.Under this text, click the "Details" link. You'll see a message stating "Your connection to this site is not secure" along with some explantory text.Click the warning icon (red triangle with exclamation symbol).Here are the steps to add the cert to the key chain and set it to trusted: This is when the cert needs to be added as a trusted source. Intranet sites inside of companies may issue their own certs. This is something that shouldn't be done if you are a consumer on commercial sites. I've seen other recommendations that turn off all invalid cert warnings. If errors are seen when accessing Amazon, for example, something could be wrong. ![]() I've seen lots of bad information out there on this.Ĭommercial sites should be using trusted authorities.
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