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irrelevant here....i bet when they made the ipad/iphone thinner...you said the same thing...and the speakers were even better...the current imac has so much empty space
you really think the current speakers are the best Apple could do in this current design ?! nice joke
))why first iphone has weaker speakers than today even if its thinner and so on....the same will apply here
"Physics is not just a good idea" everybody knows that...you dont have to be an audio enginner or whatever...
but again, my first question is still relevant....
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why not? if you are not an audiophile, and you need just to talk to someone or listen to ambient music while doing some work etc there are fine....Not everyone is in audio production or is a kid to rock the base on some systems....a lot of people now use the internals speakers from the latest MBp for example..its simpler and more simplistic
The 16" MBP has been rated time and time again as having by far the best laptop speakers of any laptop, period. Why would you not use it if you aren't sampling audio or in a place where you cannot connect to something with higher quality? My iMac 2020 27" also has decent speakers for being internal for casual listening and perfect for conference calls.
Nonsense. Don't put words in my mouth. If you're going to criticize what I wrote, then do that — not what you are misunderstanding I think… or whatever your agenda is.
I think the 2020 iMac sounds pretty good (as I stated earlier) — better than any iMac we've owned except my iMac Pro. My iPhone and iMac Pro sound ok, too. Good enough for music production or intense gaming? Well, no but for casual listening or Zoom calls etc., certainly. My wife is a professional musician, too (we both make our livings in music), and her 2020 27" iMac sounds good enough for her so I leave well enough alone.
The rumored new iMac is supposed to be even thinner with no bezel. If this means less space and the speakers firing backward, then the talk of even better sound is probably optimistic and I explained why. But no one has seen these new machines. Till then, we are all guessing — including you.
But please, do your wild guessing with your own thoughts. Don't force your agenda over mine, ok?
i never put words in your mouth, maybe you didnt understand. Wow another post of what you and your wife are doing..please stop it , it’s embarrassing, no one asked and still you dont get the idea...a lot of people can lie behind the internet...kids do all the time (im not saying that you do ! so dont get tilted again !)..so its irrelevant and i dont care. Here we talk about what OP asked....not about what everybody job is...read the rules.
You entered in discussion with me..so stop push it because im not interested..don't be an hypocrite
Of course it’s speculation until is not...Apple did with all his products since the aqusition of beats, minus the iMacs
For almost sure the imac speakers will be better..like the imac pro in the same enclosure has better speakers than the normal ones..so Apple just has to bring the imac pros speakers and will be better already....
I end my discussion with you..because is off topic and we've learned nothing but non-sense...but dont forget to tell anyone else here again that you have a wife in music production and so on
maybe they are interested ,but im not...i dont waste my timeHave a good day
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Then don't respond. By saying that I meant things I never wrote… that was you wasting your own time. Do you really not understand this? I'm guessing not but that isn't my problem.
I neither want nor need validation from anyone when I respond to a subject—especially from you. No one here needs that.
You don't like that I bring my own experience to this? Why wouldn't I or anyone else do that? If we own the machines being discussed, why not?
Sounds like a personal problem to me. Again, you don't get to make it mine — it isn't.
Exactly. All posts in this thread should be related to this point one way or the other.
I recently purchased a recertified 2017 27" iMac. I can't compare to any other iMac, but the sound from my 2018 MBP is far better. The iMac just sounds kinda tinny and muffled all the time in comparison. Perhaps it's related to the housing design. Hope this is (or has already) improved in future models.
Well...
Comparing a 2011 iMac, 2020 iMac , iMac Pro and my 2012 MBP as I did recently… The 2011 is the worst but not horrible. The iMac Pro isn't half bad and the 2020 is nearly as good. This thread started off about the 2019—though it has the same shell as the 2012–2020, Apple has tweaked speaker design over the years.
The 2020 boasts an improved bass response with new speakers working in concert with the T2 chip. We can assume that the same thing is going on in your MBP and the iMPs as well.
2020 iMac
Unlike the iMacs, your MBP has forward firing speakers. As good as Apple is, basic laws of physics get in the way with iMac speaker design where the speakers have no forward facing port.
The cold hard fact is that Mac speakers are what they are—iPhone to iMac Pro—but decent sound for anything other than internet browsing and Zoom chats really requires external speakers.
Even a 10$ bluetooth mini speaker sounds better than any iMac.
At home, I use a tiny class-D amplifier (5$) powered by an old laptop power brick and a pair of speakers salvaged from a dead mini-combo stereo set. Connect it to the iMac by bluetooth and voila => much better sound quality.
At home, I use a tiny class-D amplifier (5$) powered by an old laptop power brick and a pair of speakers salvaged from a dead mini-combo stereo set. Connect it to the iMac by bluetooth and voila => much better sound quality.
Physics its the law...but just for those who can understand it
Like i said...its clear you dont know how the physics works here(probably you see the physics in 2D
)...and like i said...the new redesign its even thinner and have better speakers, officialy Learn to listen next time, Have a nice day
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Now what kind of a… attention seeker posts something like that months after the original post? The new iMac was announced today.Physics its the law...but just for those who can understand it
Like i said...its clear you dont know how the physics works here(probably you see the physics in 2D
Learn to listen next time, Have a nice day
The new 24" appears to be an engineering marvel but I assure you, no laws of physics are being broken here, more power, a 3-way speaker system and the increased interior made possible by the reduced component size of the cooling system and chip set made this all possible. I put it in big letters so that you might understand.
I think that the Physics Dept. at my university offers online classes. They were pretty good when I took them. Many Apple engineers studied there, too. You might want to consider attending a few before you discuss subjects that you do not appear to understand.
I just bought the 2020 Imac, and noticed the exact same thing. In Music, if you pull down Window in the menu bar, and choose equalizer, you can get the sound a little better. I like to make my own "Manual" and set it to a U shape with the left and right sides near the top.