* Issues with your Mac cooling fans and fan management: the fans run constantly at high speed, fans run high despite low CPU usage and adequate ventilation, fans not working at all, etc
Compared to a $20,000 Mac Pro, it only takes about $4,000 with a PC based around the AMD Ryzen 3900X CPU in order to get similar performance in Premiere Pro. And if you opt instead for an even more powerful PC using an AMD Threadripper 3970X, you can get up to 50% higher performance compared to the Mac Pro for roughly a quarter the cost!
High Cpu Load 150 Noisy Fans With Parallels 12 For Mac
Anytime we do Mac vs PC testing, things can easily become a bit heated in our comments section, so we are going to largely side-step the question of whether you should use a Mac or a PC. Here at Puget Systems, we rarely try to outright convince anyone to move from Mac to PC, but rather take the standpoint of offering as much information as we can so that you can make an informed decision for your situation. If your workflow is better on a Mac, that is great! But if you are ready and able to take advantage of the higher performance, lower cost, and greater customization of a PC and want to work with a company that is intimately familiar with the transition from Mac to PC, we are here to help!
Premiere Pro is fairly decent at leveraging the power of higher core count CPUs, which is why AMD's Threadripper processors with 24, 32 and even 64 cores are at the top of the chart. Even so, the 28 Core Mac Pro does not give particularly great performance in Premiere Pro.
By skipping the Mac Pro and going with a PC, you could easily save $14,000 which could be used for a host of other things to improve your workflow. Maybe you can finally upgrade your reference monitor to a really nice Eizo or Flanders Scientific model. Or use it as an opportunity to move to a central NAS storage unit from LumaForge. Or just take a couple months off to recharge. And this isn't taking into account the amount of money you might be able to earn due to the higher performance of a PC.
FREQUENCY RESPONSE: The frequency response is plotted below from 20 hz to 20 Khz into a 32 ohm load. The Air is ruler flat from 20 hz to 20 Khz and well within the guide lines shown in green. This indicates a direct (not capacitor) coupled output which is a good thing. The slight bits of yellow are the other channel showing through. The two channels are extremely well matched in level:
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The black front panel is very clean and elegant, with just two polished aluminium encoder knobs, labelled Volume and Edit, located either side of a crisp yellow OLED display. On the left of the front panel, two high-impedance instrument input sockets take over the first two input channels, and there is also a full-size stereo headphone socket. The reference grade headphone amplifier can be used to monitor the preamp outputs (and an external source) via a DSP-based stereo mixer.
Most of the electronics are contained on a large motherboard using SMD components, while smaller daughterboards are used for the front-panel controls and display, and the digital outputs. The build quality and attention to detail are excellent. The mic preamp circuitry appears to employ a trio of discrete transistors at the front end, with a THAT 1580 low-noise preamp chip delivering most of the gain, which is controlled by a THAT 5171 IC in its feedback path. The channel path also incorporates a Burr-Brown INA2137 differential line receiver and a couple of beefy SMD transistors which I think are probably part of the monitor mixer. The balanced line outputs appear to employ Texas OPA1662 op-amps which have a high output drive capability, while the headphone section uses an AKM4490 D-A converter for its digital sources, with OPA1662 op-amps and NJM4556 high-current output drivers.
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