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Anyone considered doing something extremely "hacky" like this? (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a few powered monitors already and it'd be nice if I could have them work double duty between my audio mixing (when editing) and watching movies when I'm not working. I know Atmos is a whole can of worms intended to be a money pit, but the tinkering aspect is pretty high up there on things I like doing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call it hacky, I used to use three generic stereo USB dacs combined in software and a cheap HTIaB dvd player combo kit as a 5.1 many many moons ago connected to an old ibook.

That was hacky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazing! Did your ibook get so hot trying to run those DACs that the logic board fried like mine lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No it was fine for years, later model G4 so had fewer issues than the earlier ones. But i think it was still the GPU overheating that killed it in the end, those ATI 9200s ran toasty once the thermal paste dried up and cracked.

Used to play COD 1 on that thing during lunch at school. what a life.