Too bad the driver support has decayed so badly over the years.
With a 1999 machine running a (largely) 2005 OS, I'm hoping for immunity from the decay. I'll try to glean from the archive how applicable the driver issues are to me.
I also like my music loud - it really helps me hear the detail in the music, even for slow music that would normally be played softly. For the most part, I hate living in a house (yard work, ugh), but the one thing that really makes homeowning pay off for meis being able to crank my music as loud as I like.
I hear you, Eric. 9 years in a rented house in a rural area was heaven. (Even in spite of a couple acres worth of yard work.) The current rented room in a house situation isn't oppressively restrictive, but I may yet be forced to live in an apartment again (= headphones), so I'm hoping good headphone volume and control is part of the M-audio package, or if not, part of some other sound card package.
Oh, and for those of you who might have thought "hook it up to your stereo, why don't you?" - the Mac + Altec-Lansing speaker system *is* the stereo (not to mention the radio and [theoretically] the television [that I don't watch and rarely even consider]). Best stereo I've ever had.
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