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Apple's DACs have hissed for a long time. My 2010 MBP had the same problem. They just use shitty DACs.
by driverdan 14y ago
Apple's DACs have hissed for a long time. My 2010 MBP had the same problem. They just use shitty DACs.
- rwg 14y agoThere's no hiss at all with my late 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro... ...but there is an annoying pop every time the audio driver enables/disables the DAC, presumably for power savings reasons. (One day I'm going to get annoyed enough to patch the driver to not do that when the laptop's on external power.)
- mich41 14y agoAren't they using the same "HD Audio" chips as everybody else?
- ZoFreX 14y agoMy 2011 MBP also hisses clicks and pops, but tbh it's no different to the audio on any other laptop, or the integrated audio on most desktops.
- kalleboo 14y agoThe problem I'm having with the retina isn't just hissy/poor quality. The audio literally cuts out or lags for a fraction of a second, causing very audible crackling. First time it happened I thought I had ripped a CD incorrectly, it sounds like a CD with scratches in it. And it disappears when you disable the intel integrated graphics and switch to the nVidia.
- muraiki 14y agoInteresting... I have a problem with a Mid 2011 iMac where the audio does the same thing. It's an i7 so I was pretty certain that I wasn't pegging the CPU; I chalked it up to a problem with VLC but perhaps there's more to it than that.
- driverdan 14y agoI've never noticed this problem with my rMBP.