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I hope it doesn't trigger again as I still can hear my ears ringing.",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"8819955","vsilves","I'm still getting a non-cleared buffer played a bit louder\u002Fincorrectly\u002Fnot-in-sequence when I start playing a AC3 music in .m4a files using the latest Hajo's 1.6.7 in Mac 10.10.1…",{"value":145,"source":76,"evidence":146},"Installer fails on macOS 10.10",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"8817387","neardark","The installation failed. The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. 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It says 'off' in the icon.",{"value":166,"source":76,"evidence":167},"Latency and distortion at loud parts",[168,172],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"8817908","dodysw","The latency kills the videos.",{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"8817795","ferongr","There's lots of distortion (like digital clipping but low-passed, if that makes sense) at the louder parts of the song. It also seems that the processed sample has its dynamic…",[177,184,191,198],{"value":178,"source":76,"evidence":179},"Adjustable bass",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"8817286","mva","Would be great if I could adjust the bass myself a bit. Some songs are now just a bit too much. Furthermore vocals are missing that spark and sound quite dull. 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