The Duet2 is a digital to analogue converter for Mac — it plugs into your USB port, sucks the raw digital files off your hard drive and processes the data super accurately. If you’ve got uncompressed music files, the Duet2 will spit perfection out of its headphone jack.
The Duet2 is also as pretty as an Apple product. It actually sort of looks like an iPhone and provokes in me the same longing. That’s important because audio quality can be elusive. if I’m going to buy an auxiliary sound product to put next to my computer, my eyes better be just as convinced as my ears that it’s worth $US600. My MacBook wasn’t cheap, and there’s no law that says accessories have to be. The Duet2 doesn’t just play the part — it looks the part, too. [Apogee Electronics]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:04 AMI’m sure $600 must do *something* to the sound, but have you heard of GIGO?
Garbage In, Garbage Out!
hahah what the phuc
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:22 AMlooks like an iphone? no wonder they’re suing everyone, apparently everything looks like an apple product :|
Patrick
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 12:47 PMErm the Duet2 is designed as a portable recording interface, it has 2 Mic PreAmps / Line Level inputs at 4 outputs (2 Line Level and 2 channels that are assigned to the L/R for the headphone jack).. Yes it will make your crap 128k MP3′s sound slightly better because the DAC’s employed are vastly superior to those in your Mac as they are designed for 24 bit / 192 KHZ recording and tracking.. and Apogee are one of the organisations that share the top of the tree as far as AD/DA conversion goes.. Considering the tech in it and how good it sounds for its actual function, $600 is great value. Ive owned an original Duet for years now (its Firewire based) and its an amazing piece of kit.. Of course if you want to spend $600 on an outbound sound card just for listening to music.. I encourage that too!!
Ozoneocean
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 3:50 PMUm, sound nerds don’t care that much about the look of their equipment, which is WHY they’re sound nerds.
People that care more about the look of things aren’t sound nerds.