Macbook Pro headphone amp noise
By DavidFisher. Filed in audio |Tags: amps, apogee, dave fisher, David Fisher, duet, headphone, Macbook Pro, marware, noise, tibbon
There’s a few little things that I do dislike about my Macbook Pro.
First of all, it gets hot. Insanely hot. I got a Marware wrist guard for it, which has made typing bearable on it. A must have if you have a MBP imho. It blends in to the color, protects it from my watch, and prevents the frying of my hands.
But my new problem with it is that the headphone amplifier simply sucks. I understand it’s a laptop, and that it’s not meant to be a Grace or Grado headphone amp, but there’s some really horrid ~18kHz ringing that I head when using earbuds in it. It’s not present in my larger headphones that I have noticed, but maybe the difference in impedance is doing something to block that. I’m impressed that it can drive as loud as possible, but the self noise from it being in the laptop is driving me a bit batty. Oh well. Maybe it’s a reason to get an Apogee Duet to take with me.