Core Audio - I Can't Seem To Locate It?

Yes, you can locate its various components, but what would be the purpose? If you need to incorporate it in programming, then you should look for relevant documentation in the XTools or at the Apple developer's site - developer.apple.com.

Core audio is not directly accessible to the user, but is an integrated component of the operating system APIs used by applications. The components are contained in frameworks (shared libraries) located within the System folder, which is not searchable by Spotlight.

Paste into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON and hit <return>.
Quit Finder, wait 2 seconds, re-launch Finder. (Or log out and back in).

In the Finder navigate to System > Library > Frameworks > CoreAudio.framework. Look, but do not touch!! If you know what you are doing you can read the file in nano. If you are unsure do nothing!!

Paste into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles OFF and hit <return>.
Quit Finder, wait 2 seconds, re-launch Finder. (Or log out and back in).

How do I Quit the Finder?

All sorts of ways, but perhaps the simplest is to add (maybe just temporarily) a 'Quit' item to the Finder. (The Finder is actually just an app).

Paste into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool yes and hit <return>.
Re-launch the Finder (e.g. by Option-click & hold on the Finder Dock icon). The Finder's ‘ Finder’ menu will now have a "Quit" item (and the usual shortcut of Cmnd-Q).

Having quit the Finder you can bring it back whenever you want just by a click on the Finder's Dock icon – just as you would do to launch any other app that wasn't running.

If you don't want the Finder to permanently respond to Cmnd-Q then, as you can probably guess…

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool no

G5 2.1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

- Ø®£Z - (I wonder how you pronounce that!!),

I must have been half asleep when I wrote my first reply to you. I am so used to showing invisible items in the Finder when I am looking for parts of the OS that I completely ignored the fact that you don't need to do that to find things in System/Libarary such as CoreAudio. Sorry – I hope I haven't confused you – and I hope you are having fun switching things on and off in Terminal.

G5 2.1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Orez, you may have already spotted that the path I gave you is to a link (an alias) to coreaudio. The full path is:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudio

Just dbl-klik on System and drill your way down. When you open 'CoreAudio.framework' you will see that link together with 'Versions'.

Looking and learning are highly commendable but DO BE CAREFUL – looking is fine, altering anything at all absolutely not.

G5 2.1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

have you disabled the hidden items? im not sure at all but it might just be hidden in a system folder

Im sorry i ment enable them using a program such as onyx