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No need for an apology, man!

But it is a nerve you hit. It makes me nervous that a lot of people are buying mediocre gear that isn't even cheaper than good gear. It is smaller. But that is usually not very important.

And sorry if it came across as a rant. I sometimes do rants

The DIN EN 61938 standard specifies a maximum of 10 mA may be drawn by a phantom microphone. And that was OK back when phantom power came from the backup lights, powered by enormous lead-acid battery banks in the basement. Some phantom power systems these days, only provide 24V, or even 15 or 12V. ...

Shielding: - Start with finding a convenient spot in the house where the RFI is minimal. - Get a well shielded USB cable. You might already have one. If you have one with a ferrite bead on it, try it. A ferrite bead is a knobby thing clamped around the cable, close to one of the USB connectors. Usua...

Placebo effect works for more than half of the population... I was amazed a couple of weeks ago, when I came across a hardware device to create subliminal audio. And, no, it wasn't new. It was 2nd hand and looked like it dated at least 20 years ago. Couldn't tell what it was doing by looking at the ...

Look like cable TV distribution amplifiers. You might be hearing a "keep alive" signal, that's there to signal cable breaking.

The strange thing is, the ART shouldn't be affected by this. Are you in an extremely dry area?

If low noise floor is your aim, stay away from these... USB only proides 2,5 W power. That is not enough for a good mic preamp, if you also have to power a headphone amp and an AD/DA. Shure has alleviated that problem a bit by only providing 40 dB of gain. Maybe that's enough if you use a top qualit...

Ha! Someone in Australia fished the old Lennoxx brand out of the canal and is producing this TT500 turntable/cassette player. The turntable even does 78 RPM! It has a ceramic cartridge. That's real vintage for you! :D But it's also the first I saw that directs people to the Audacity website for down...

The Lenoxx player is an audio CD player. An external one that doesn't have USB, AFAIK.

So the question is, how is it connected to the Mac?

A jack to jack cable? Then it's on the TRRS mic connection and that sounds tinny. It's also mono. If this is right, the OP needs an interface.

The Edirol is pretty good hardware. But, knowing Roland's drivers, it could be getting on a bit. I presume you've checked the Roland website for driver updates?

I'm guessing you're on a Macbook? It could be Core audio goes to sleep. And it doesn't wake fast enough, or it doesn't wake at all. A solution could be to run a small shell script in the background to keep Core audio from sleeping. It's called "antipop" and you can find it here: http://www.tomsick.n...