Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Still I cannot understand why...
From: Allan Klinbail (allank_AT_labyrinth.net.au)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 14:13:10 EET
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 18:45, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > I would love to have a system that does not need any
> > tinkering for it to be able to provide me with absolutely best audio
> > performance I can possibly squeeze out of my hardware regardless whether
> > it is playing a desktop bleep warning, or doing complex audio
> > processing.
>
> What is the point of having a super machine that you don't fine tune? It
> is part of the fun IMO. Like building your own hotrod or working for the
> ferrari formula 1 team in your own house.
>
Agreed ...... just like an automatic sportscar can't drive as fast as a
manual one... but the manual one requires a good driver to get best
performance...
- otherwise your answer is to go to MacOs 9 ... although you will find
you have to change which extensions you load depending on what you do...
and fine tune some other parameters as well.... but ultimately that is
what MacOs used to be about - no brains ...... with Mac OS X it seems
they have admitted that this philosophy doesn't really work for high end
usage....- the only people I know who get real performance out of
Windohs are those that know how to hack the registry. You may as well
learn how to fine-tune the OS with the most people doing it and the most
information available about how.
It often seems there is talk of an audio distribution but again... this
would still need fine-tuning for specific hardware...
Seeing development of some packages it seems hard enough to write a
clean top level makefile system that compiles reliably on all
systems.... I'd hate to think the effort of an automated system tweaking
program ... let alone the fact it sounds extremely dangerous.
cheers
Allan
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