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<blockquote data-quote="Arik Semagin" data-source="post: 115838" data-attributes="member: 5072">Re: X32 v2 RTALast time I&#039;m replying to you, Brent, all this is waste of time. I don&#039;t want to call names or judge you, just to answer some of your accusations. Would rather do it in private message, but since you&#039;ve posted it&nbsp; here, I have no choice.1. I never said that it&#039;s impossible to have HDMI and analog audio from MacBook or iMac at the same time. My point was that it&#039;s not necessary if your device has HDMI input. Certainly it&#039;s the only way to do if you don&#039;t have it, I&#039;ve done it countless number of times.2. Not all Apple products have analog audio out, like you&#039;ve said in original post that started this chain. Most do, but not all. Apple TV box is an example, HDMI and optical audio outputs only.3. HDMI is all-digital, there&#039;s no analog audio flowing through it, and yes, it&#039;s digital interface standard.4. I wouldn&#039;t rely on Apple stores personnel for technical knowledge. Most are good, but some are naturally clueless. They aren&#039;t engineers, merely a sales clerks with some product knowledge. Their job is to identify customer&#039;s needs and suggest the best products that fits them.I&#039;m not putting them down in any way, it&#039;s a function in Apple system that has to be done and that&#039;s what they are trained to do. Those who can do more can move up into product development, design, QC and whatever else is available. It&#039;s a huge company.Believe me, I can list specs of all MacBooks being awaken in the middle of the night!5. I work in datacenter operations, it&#039;s on my profile on this forum. Pretty exciting stuff, iTunes and iCloud are a part of it. Yes, it&#039;s an engineering job that requires a solid degree and pays accordingly (way more than an average sound guy can make). One of a few jobs where your thinking has direct reflection on your paycheck. Sorry can&#039;t give you any more details, but it&#039;s very interesting.6. What I call &quot;logical thinking&quot; is the ability to draw logical conclusions from facts. Seems like you&#039;ve missed some of my points and was jumping to conclusions right away. It happens even at our meetings, but since we are not interacting face-to-face it&#039;s hard to come to a common ground.Enough on that, I have a meeting in 10 min, have to get ready. If you want to continue this discussion, send me a private message and stop littering this thread.Thank you!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arik Semagin, post: 115838, member: 5072"] Re: X32 v2 RTA Last time I'm replying to you, Brent, all this is waste of time. I don't want to call names or judge you, just to answer some of your accusations. Would rather do it in private message, but since you've posted it here, I have no choice. 1. I never said that it's impossible to have HDMI and analog audio from MacBook or iMac at the same time. My point was that it's not necessary if your device has HDMI input. Certainly it's the only way to do if you don't have it, I've done it countless number of times. 2. Not all Apple products have analog audio out, like you've said in original post that started this chain. Most do, but not all. Apple TV box is an example, HDMI and optical audio outputs only. 3. HDMI is all-digital, there's no analog audio flowing through it, and yes, it's digital [B]interface[/B] standard. 4. I wouldn't rely on Apple stores personnel for technical knowledge. Most are good, but some are naturally clueless. They aren't engineers, merely a sales clerks with some product knowledge. Their job is to identify customer's needs and suggest the best products that fits them. I'm not putting them down in any way, it's a function in Apple system that has to be done and that's what they are trained to do. Those who can do more can move up into product development, design, QC and whatever else is available. It's a huge company. Believe me, I can list specs of all MacBooks being awaken in the middle of the night! 5. I work in datacenter operations, it's on my profile on this forum. Pretty exciting stuff, iTunes and iCloud are a part of it. Yes, it's an engineering job that requires a solid degree and pays accordingly (way more than an average sound guy can make). One of a few jobs where your thinking has direct reflection on your paycheck. Sorry can't give you any more details, but it's very interesting. 6. What I call "logical thinking" is the ability to draw logical conclusions from facts. Seems like you've missed some of my points and was jumping to conclusions right away. It happens even at our meetings, but since we are not interacting face-to-face it's hard to come to a common ground. Enough on that, I have a meeting in 10 min, have to get ready. If you want to continue this discussion, send me a private message and stop littering this thread. Thank you! [/QUOTE]

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