Why do you mock me, Schiit modi?

mistersprinkles · 27 Dec 2017 at 03:12

Asked schiit, they can't help, so I've come to you guys. My modi won't let me adjust the system volume on my mac. I get line level out. That's it. Gotta adjust the volume in apps. When I try to adjust volume I get the "no smoking slash" and the volume control in the audio section of settings in osx is greyed out.

Thoughts?

I have tried disabling app nap as per Schiit's instructions. Did nothing.

schiit modi 2 uber/schiit magni 2
iMac 2017 base model High Sierra

spoffle · 27 Dec 2017 at 04:14

It sounds a bit schiit to me.

rids57 · 27 Dec 2017 at 17:48

no problem doing it on Windows

Marsman · 27 Dec 2017 at 17:56

Not a fan of Apple, so I'll just blame them and say; Apple sucks.

mistersprinkles · 27 Dec 2017 at 18:15

why are y'all hatin' on the boyz from Cupertino, yo?

nicknack35 · 27 Dec 2017 at 19:46

Im not a fan of apple either, But when it comes to Audio the Mac is proberly the best on the market for a laptop so i would have thought they wouldn't be a problem with the Schiit but saying that Apple is very fussy with what you can have on there devices

Glanza · 28 Dec 2017 at 09:46

Not got that problem on Windows and I've used my Schiit stack on different versions of Windows and several PC's.

Marsman · 28 Dec 2017 at 11:41

mistersprinkles said:
why are y'all hatin' on the boyz from Cupertino, yo?

People are saying this works fine on Windows, but clearly doesn't on Apple.

Why did Apple make it so this wouldn't work?

Don't blame Schiit, blame Apple for being 'special'.

mistersprinkles · 28 Dec 2017 at 14:52

Marsman said:
People are saying this works fine on Windows, but clearly doesn't on Apple.

Why did Apple make it so this wouldn't work?

Don't blame Schiit, blame Apple for being 'special'.

My iMac heard you and now he's sad.

rids57 · 28 Dec 2017 at 16:29

The other question is, why would you want to adjust the system volume, when line out is what you need? Any volume adjustments should be done in the analogue domain (after the DAC), otherwise you can be looking at loss of information, which means sound degradation.

David Bisset · 29 Dec 2017 at 18:42

^ This is why the mac doesn't let you do it... Tho Windows is the more sensible one as it'll let you if you want which doesn't stop you doing it properly either. Which is nice when you want to plug your (ampless) headphones into your monitors and just dock your mac with usb & displayport... Works fine with windows running via bootcamp but osx makes it a pain as you don't have a downstream amp and need to alter the os itself which gets messy. Combine that with only partial multi-stream support (no daisy chain via dp 1.2 even tho hardware can do it) and you've got the main reasons i find osx annoying on a casual usability basis for a work machine.

britain4 · 8 Jan 2018 at 00:02

rids57 said:
The other question is, why would you want to adjust the system volume, when line out is what you need? Any volume adjustments should be done in the analogue domain (after the DAC), otherwise you can be looking at loss of information, which means sound degradation.

^ this. The Mac recognises the Modi should be a line out and so the volume can’t change. That’s the whole reason the Magni has an analogue volume pot.