Patrick in Denver Colorado about 30 miles which is East I think it's east of here not my I don't know I get on the freeway hit go and and off we go to Denver um I have a 2011 Mac Mini that I've been

waiting to update so I can use Apple Music Apple just announced new Mac minis with M2 chips what are your recommendations regarding which model to purchase as an audio server which chipset which RAM internal hard drive size etc I plan to use this as an audio

server only thanks for all you do for us well I'll give you a couple answers first off I still have a couple of Mac minis around that we use for servers there's one upstairs that I on occasion use and I've actually over the years had

multiple Mac Minis and my friend Bill used to build a real hot rod Mac Mini that clearly sounded better than the Mac minis I have up there okay that said and I'll explain the differences in a sec that said if you're not a crazy man like me then

it probably doesn't matter and any standard Mac Mini with a decent hard drive that you can load up a bunch of tracks is probably going to be just fine and before we get into the details let me just explain the one thing you don't want to do

Macs and Windows all have their own audio engines I you know I it's they're processing units for audio and you know most people that play audio on a computer don't really care they just want it to work so if if you put in one sample rate they

want it to have a consistent output of quality audio, as best as it's going to get, and they don't want to fuss with it. Well, that doesn't sound like us. We're audiophiles. We got to fuss with everything, right? So those Core Audio

processing units in the Mac and in the Windows need to be skirted around. You don't want to use that. Do not put your audio through the audio processing that is standard within the mini or the any Mac system or any Windows system. Don't do it. Everything

comes out at the same sample rate. It's, you know, it's, it's like, ah, here I'm probably going to get in trouble, you know. It's, it's like a McDonald's milkshake. You know, they all kind of taste the same. It's good for a whole bunch of people,

but if you're into milkshakes, I'm not. I'm just thinking that this is probably accurate because, you know, McDonald's is famous for making everything sort of good and nothing great and nothing bad, right? So it's kind of the the McDonald's

of audio for computers. I'm probably going to get all kinds of hate mail. God, I haven't eaten at McDonald's in so long. Thank goodness. I gave up all that fast food junk. So bad for you. Okay, we got off on the fast food. We don't

want to get off into that. Skip the core engine. Now, how do you do that? Well, you need a program. So, in with Mac, you could use Audirvana. It's a really good program. It circumvents that whole engine. You could use Bit Perfect. You could, in a Windows machine, you can

Oh gosh, what is it? Just just look. I I don't use Windows a whole lot. On the Pyramid system at Octave Records, that's all I use, but that's a pretty fancy system. Of course, it doesn't use that, but there's there's

all kinds of programs you can buy that sets it separate and you'll know it sets it separate with a real easy test. You want to be able to go into your DAC to play any sample rate source file and have it come out the same sample rate on

your DAC. So if you were to take a standard Mac Mini and you played, let's say, a 192 kilohertz 24 bit piece of music on that Mac, when you look on your DAC, it needs to say 192.24. Now if you go into the core engine on

the Mac, you can set the sample rate and bit depth anywhere you want. So let's say you set it for 192.24, well then everything you play from a 44.1 to a 352 to a 176 will always come out 192.24.

That is this upsampling, downsampling device that they use. You don't want that. So just if you're playing 44.1, it needs to come out at that sample rate, that bit depth, and once you accomplish that, you've got 90% of it under

control. All right, this is probably going longer than I wanted. Bill used to build Mac Minis for me, and there he disabled everything on the Mac Mini. Just I don't even know how he did it. He just he took out all the standard stuff, the file browser. All he

got rid of all of it, put as much RAM as he possibly could into the thing and ran it as bare bones as possible and it did sound better. And I think we always use bit perfect for those so all right, there you go. Hope that helps, have fun and let me know how

it turns out all right. Thanks. Bye. [Music] [Laughter] [Music]

Building a Mac Mini music server

Paul McGowan, PS Audio

오디오 서버용 Mac Mini에 대한 문의

사용자가 오디오 서버로 사용하기 위해 Mac Mini 모델에 대한 권장 사항을 찾습니다.

스피커는 Mac 미니를 서버로 사용하여 경험을 공유합니다.

대부분의 사용자에게는 대용량 하드 드라이브가 장착된 표준 Mac Mini로 충분하다고 제안합니다.

Mac 및 Windows의 내장 오디오 처리 기능을 사용하지 않도록 경고합니다.

표준 오디오 엔진 우회의 중요성

표준 오디오 엔진은 오디오 애호가에게는 이상적이지 않을 수 있는 방식으로 오디오를 처리한다고 설명합니다.

Mac 및 Windows의 코어 오디오 처리 장치를 우회해야 함을 강조합니다.

표준 오디오 처리와 맥도날드 밀크쉐이크를 비교하여 일관성이 있지만 예외적이지는 않습니다.

핵심 오디오 엔진을 우회하는 Audirvana(Mac)와 같은 소프트웨어를 권장합니다.

DAC가 소스 파일과 동일한 샘플 레이트를 출력하는지 확인할 것을 제안합니다.

적절한 샘플 레이트 출력 테스트

DAC에서 샘플 레이트를 확인하여 오디오가 올바르게 처리되고 있는지 테스트하는 방법을 설명합니다.

코어 엔진의 업샘플링/다운샘플링 문제를 설명합니다.

원래 샘플 레이트와 비트 심도로 나오는 오디오의 중요성을 강조합니다.

정확한 샘플 레이트 출력을 달성하는 것은 오디오 품질 향상을 위한 핵심 요소입니다.

향상된 오디오를 위한 고급 Mac Mini 설정

불필요한 기능을 비활성화하고 RAM을 최대화하는 등 Mac 미니를 오디오에 최적화하는 친구의 방법을 설명합니다.

최적의 결과를 위해 비트 퍼펙트 소프트웨어 사용을 제안합니다.