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Show us your Workstations! - 2012 Edition


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#406 The Laughing Man

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 01:58

View Postremixedcat, on 02 September 2012 - 23:38, said:

laptop speakers are torture to the ears.
I have a macbook pro 17 from 2007, that thing has amazing sound for a laptop, only problem is it wont turn on haha.


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Posted 03 September 2012 - 01:59

View PostThe Laughing Man, on 03 September 2012 - 01:58, said:

I have a macbook pro 17 from 2007, that thing has amazing sound for a laptop, only problem is it wont turn on haha.

That's awesome but that's sad that it won't turn on

#408 Arceles

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 02:10

View PostVvo, on 03 September 2012 - 01:30, said:

how can laptop speakers be torture to our ears? @_@

Exactly what remixedcat has said.

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 18:22

A little update:

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 18:34

View PostArceles, on 02 September 2012 - 22:47, said:

I'll show you mine :D

I just have one question...why?

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 02:47

View Posttsupersonic, on 03 September 2012 - 18:34, said:

I just have one question...why?
It's portable enough to carry in a back pack and I really don't have to suffer bad sound from laptop speakers. When you travel a lot... you just can't buy a good set of speakers each time you set foot on a new place :( (well you can but it would be troublesome)

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:00

Oddly, over the years, my hearing tastes have changed. When I was in my 20's and Early 30's (Almost 40 now), if I heard something that came out of laptop speakers, tiny cheap speakers, or poor quality speakers, I would turn it off, or do everything in my power to fix the sound. I even used to run an 8 channel sound mixer and sometimes 16 channel for my church back then and always had postive feedback on how good it sounded.

Now days, I guess I have older and probably more used to lesser quality sound, because I will sometimes find myself happy to just have any music coming out of 'tin can' speakers not to say though that I don't appreciate good sound. :)

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:05

View PostMedfordite, on 04 September 2012 - 03:00, said:

Oddly, over the years, my hearing tastes have changed. When I was in my 20's and Early 30's (Almost 40 now), if I heard something that came out of laptop speakers, tiny cheap speakers, or poor quality speakers, I would turn it off, or do everything in my power to fix the sound. I even used to run an 8 channel sound mixer and sometimes 16 channel for my church back then and always had postive feedback on how good it sounded.

Now days, I guess I have older and probably more used to lesser quality sound, because I will sometimes find myself happy to just have any music coming out of 'tin can' speakers not to say though that I don't appreciate good sound. :)

Guess I'm still in my 20's... will give you feedback at 40's!

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:17

I forgot about good speakers when I got my first laptop. I just press Play and, if I want to, just use the headphones, which are very good. If I'm working or something, the music just come from the tiny speakers of my 13 inch MacBook Pro.

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:19

I can hear beyond normal frequencies.... on the upper end around 28khz-32Khz.

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:27

View PostMedfordite, on 04 September 2012 - 03:00, said:

Oddly, over the years, my hearing tastes have changed. When I was in my 20's and Early 30's (Almost 40 now), if I heard something that came out of laptop speakers, tiny cheap speakers, or poor quality speakers, I would turn it off, or do everything in my power to fix the sound. I even used to run an 8 channel sound mixer and sometimes 16 channel for my church back then and always had postive feedback on how good it sounded.

Now days, I guess I have older and probably more used to lesser quality sound, because I will sometimes find myself happy to just have any music coming out of 'tin can' speakers not to say though that I don't appreciate good sound. :)

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I'm the other way around, as I get older (40) sound quality is becoming more important, it's so bad I rather watch a movie on my PC than the TV because for now my PC speakers are tons better than the builtin crappy speakers on our TV, and I'm a FLAC fanatic

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:38

View Postz0phi3l, on 04 September 2012 - 03:27, said:

I'm the other way around, as I get older (40) sound quality is becoming more important, it's so bad I rather watch a movie on my PC than the TV because for now my PC speakers are tons better than the builtin crappy speakers on our TV, and I'm a FLAC fanatic

Another lossless fanatic here too, all my music library is in either FLAC or APE, sometimes tta or tak, being a bit presumptuous I can tell the difference between a MP3 320 VBR file and a lossless one, but not from ogg or "mp4" (audio part)

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 08:27

I most of mine in vbr v0 or v2 .mp3 for my phone and desktop gets higher bit rates, however most of my music is purchased downloads and most of those don't give you flac or I pay a little less for 320 or whatever.

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 09:00

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Posted 04 September 2012 - 11:03

You got a nice camera how much did you pay for it?