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Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

soundproof — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:26:00 GMT

Alex, according to the gearslutz-thread I linked to the problem seems to be most noticeable with firewire-connections to third-part boxes, particularly from RME. Many descriptions in that link that match what you are hearing.

I have no trouble with 10.1 from my mbp to an airport express connected to my Beolab 5000. But I will wait with upgrading iTunes on my media centre mac mini, as that ports via firewire.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

j0hnbarker — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:13:17 GMT

Soundproof having a sense of humour is amusing in itself!

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Doctor — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:49:37 GMT

Mine seems completely fine. Using Grado headphones , stereo is fine and no clipping. My set up of computer is very simple though - maybe you have some sort of software clash. Tried all sorts of tracks but no obvious problem.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Alex — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:59:42 GMT

Doctor:

I am sure Soundproof was trying out his English sense of humour. I fail to see how 'iTunes 10 Atrocious sound quality' can really be seen as an 'I love Apple' thread though.

I will be interested to hear how Alex has got on playing with his settings.

Well I've put a dummy minijack plug in the output of an airport express, and I'm streaming music to both the airport and my soundcard. A workaround which solves the problem, but causes one or two others. Better than the sound of iTunes though! Peter, are you running iTunes 10.1? Have you experienced any issues?

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

symmes — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:35:14 GMT

Doctor:
I am sure Soundproof was trying out his English sense of humour. I fail to see how 'iTunes 10 Atrocious sound quality' can really be seen as an 'I love Apple' thread though.

I will be interested to hear how Alex has got on playing with his settings.

1. I guess English humour tends to be SO subtle to my uncultured mind, that I let the preponderance of emoticons guide me as to whether or not something is funny. 2. After years of seeing "I love Apple" on the main board, I was frankly shocked that anyone was concerned that this thread existed.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Doctor — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:21:47 GMT

I am sure Soundproof was trying out his English sense of humour. I fail to see how 'iTunes 10 Atrocious sound quality' can really be seen as an 'I love Apple' thread though.

I will be interested to hear how Alex has got on playing with his settings.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

symmes — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:46:47 GMT

soundproof:
Must confess I didn't check whether the query was in the correct forum. I am hereby formally withdrawing my helpful suggestions in recognition of this terrible faux pas.
In reparation I have dismantled my BeoWorld "Most Valuable Contributor" award and hope this will serve as sufficient demonstration of my contrition. I promise to provide assistance in the future only upon having received proper assurances that "Alles ist Korrekt."
Cheers!

Is there an emoticom for over-react? If a thread belongs somewhere else, I am sure the mods would move it, though "I love Apple" threads tend to be sacrosanct.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Vienna — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:25:24 GMT

Tim:

Doesn't that thread belong in the Beo-Mac Forum?

LOL - WikiLeaks for Apple's "Geschuezte Werkstaetten"

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

soundproof — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:06:32 GMT

Must confess I didn't check whether the query was in the correct forum. I am hereby formally withdrawing my helpful suggestions in recognition of this terrible faux pas.

In reparation I have dismantled my BeoWorld "Most Valuable Contributor" award and hope this will serve as sufficient demonstration of my contrition. I promise to provide assistance in the future only upon having received proper assurances that "Alles ist Korrekt."

Cheers!

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

tournedos — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:17:19 GMT

Tim:

Doesn't that thread belong in the Beo-Mac Forum?

Strictly speaking this thread started with zero B&O content, so it would rather belong to an Apple forum and not here at all - like do many of the recent threads which frankly speaking bore me out of my skull. Thank god there are still the vintage products...

I'm not going to complain though, I've used this forum for off-topic stuff myself - simply because this seems to be the most knowledgeable and civil forum I've ever been to. Hope it stays that way.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

soundproof — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:26:19 GMT

Have a look here, Alex. Seems to be affecting some users with RME and Metric Halo interfaces, among others:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/549883-itunes-10-1-ruined-playback-sound-totally.html

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

bayerische — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:25:22 GMT

I don't use iTunes on my laptop much, have the latest iTunes version, and EQ was set on. So at some point it must have been turned on from an update. I wouldn't have it on.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Dave — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:15:09 GMT

I've noticed clipping since i updated mine too, is there anyway of reversing the update

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Tim — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:44:17 GMT

Doesn't that thread belong in the Beo-Mac Forum?

Anyways - there are several settings in iTunes having huge impact on the sound - you might check if you changed them. First thing should be to deactivate the equalizer, next thing to have a close look in the settings menu...

Regarding the Apple bashing:

I am using Apple as my sole computer System for 10 years now, add to it iPhones, iPods and and iPad.

I can tell you, that these systems are far from perfect - but if you do want to have as little Problems as possible: I (!) just do not see an alternative. If you know a perfect (!) computer (!) system that always works perfect please tell me what it is: I'll buy one in a second.

Regarding multiroom-audio: Apple is just the cheapest solution to mimic a high end system - in the end you get what you pay for. It somehow works (most of the time), but (in the moment) it is the cheapest way to go.

Re: iTunes 10 ATROCIOUS sound quality?!

Doctor — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:36:24 GMT

Using 10.1 and have no problems with my antique PowerMac.

I know I am not on the forum as much as I used to be, but the unpleasant tone of some of the posts on here does surprise me somewhat. I have reviewed a number of the threads to which some seem to have taken umbrage and my only thought would be to advise some people to grow up. This is an internet forum for people who love and use B&O. The site seems to have a healthy balance of positive and critical threads, which I am sure B&O find most illuminating. They may well not agree with some criticism and may feel that some of the views voiced are not relevant to their core customers, but I am sure they would not wish to see censorship. It has been generally accepted that a much larger percentage of B&O users use Apple computer products than the general population and hence the preponderance of threads relating to integrating these in a B&O system. The fact that the Mac area of this site has three times the number of posts of the PC area would also seem relevant as does the fact that the BeoSound 5 Encore will be compatible with Mac.

I confess that the majority of posts regarding Apple tend to pass me by - I use my Mac as a music server with a Beolink PC and am perfectly happy to leave it at this - but I simply look for threads that do interest me instead of moaning about the actions of others. It is a bit much to complain about the content of a forum and limit oneself to this rather than starting useful and interesting alternative threads.