Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Thanks Bokeh I'll keep that in mind, I do not need to drive my head phones very loud with the inbuilt amp, I just need it to be reasonably powerful for portable use in a pretty quiet place yes. Thanks again.

Yes I have a Prism Orpheus at home, but when I'm not at home I need to be able to go straight into the headphone jack and get reasonable volume just for writing/producing away from home.

Thats all true. Cheers for your advice bro. Pce.

Cool Bokeh. I wont write the M6700 off just yet then. Its still in the running. Thank you very much.

 

I'm running Scientific Linux 6.3 with that screen....I've installed it to a second HD in the machine. No screen problems whatsoever.....I'm using the Nvidia blob driver, btw also.

 

Thanks, I will look into that distro.
It installs as a LiveCD? And it lets you install the boot record to the root partition of the Linux install 9rather than modifying the MBR and thus hosing Windows)?

 

Mine shows up as 'Generic plug and play monitor' too. But the Dell PremierColor software allows to switch between Full, Adobe, and sRGB gamuts. If this is installed and you see a clearly visible change on switching, you have the wide gamut IPS panel.
Other ways to tell - view the screen off-axis (e.g. tilt the screen back while looking at it) and you will see the colors not changing much.
You can also run the 10bit demo from NEC (it is designed for their monitors, but runs on the Dell too). If a 10bit panel is not detected you will get an error message, otherwise you get two windows showing rotating cubes rendered at 10bit and 8bit per component respectively.
NEC Desktop and LCD Monitor Software | Display Wall Calibrator

 

I really doubt that it has 'zero distortion'. Also, the point of a headphone amp is mainly control, not necessarily just loudness.

although if you are just comparing it to that level of quality then I guess, yes, 'it works'.
For any sort of demanding use however (such as tracking or mixing) an external DAC and external headphone amp would be recommended.

I don't have a DAW installed on my laptop yet; on my desktop I use a PreSonus AudioBox 44VSL as the audio interface (up to 24/96 on four channels) with the balanced monitor outs connected to the balanced inputs on a Lake People G109P. The latter is a recent upgrade from a Superlux HA3D and gives a noticeable tighter sound with a lower noise floor. (DAW is Studio One 2.5).

PreSonus | AudioBox 44VSL
Lake People
Superlux HA3D Amplifier | Headfonia

Now, that is for recoding and mixing as well as playback, and is not especially portable. For a more portable but still high quality listening-only interface, I was thinking of the ODAC for a DAC, and haven't selected a portable amp yet.

Headphones are ATH-M50s.

E-DAC 24 bit Miniature USB DAC | Epiphany Acoustics
NwAvGuy: ODAC Released
Audio-Technica - Products - Headphones - Monitor - ATH-M50

One would hope so

 

Should have said obvious audible distortion

Very nice setup there! In the office I run an older iMac into Cambridge DacMagic then into a Marantz SR19 for the Sennheisers. The Marantz is ok, but the Sonic Frontiers Line 1 SE I used to own was much better.

 

@ChrisLilley
thanks for your answer. I will try nec sw.
however hw64info works correctly under windows 7. instead under windows 8 it is seen as generic ( even if it works with premium correctly)

ps is it normal that the fan works very often also when I'm chroming (cpu 1-2%) ? they are very annoying and I can't find any program to control them

 

Yes, running hw64info I see the monitor listed there as LG Philips LP173WF3 and the color depth shown as 10 Bits per Primary Color. In windows Device Manager however it just says Generic PnP Monitor. Win7/64.

 

ok!!

and what about

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Check my post on the previous page about Windows power options and fan control. That's really the only option available.