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[Riba]

> Don't ever expect Apple to tell you that competitor's (and cheaper) 
> stuff will work fine in their systems. Just take a look at the price 
> Apple charges for a run-of-the-shell Pioneer DVD burner, the exactly 
> the same can be bought for 30% less! Apple is not going to tell you 
> that.

I can't agree more on this, but it is a fact that a number of people,
including myself, tried connecting USB speakers to a powered USB hub and
that resulted in failure - they ended up very quiet or dropped the sound
occasionally.
Since I'm also open minded :) I allow for the possibility that this
setup might work for someone, but such cases are from my experience very
rare. Superdrive/memory issue is not a good analogy here. A long time
ago I even had a technical document explaining the issue involved here
but God knows where it is right now.