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Rockbox Bass boost vs. Sony Clear Bass
sockbox:
I have no clue what BBE is but can guess it's something like SRS wow.
I would recommend that you manually adjust the parametric EQ according to your headphones and player. Stay clear of the EQ presets. LS & PK1 adjusts the bass, but you'll also want to adjust the rest of the settings to clean up the mud sound.
I've posted my sounds settings for different headphones on a Sansa clip so you can take a look at what I've done.
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,34743.0.html
yapper:
Rather than boost the bass, try reducing everything else slightly. Boosting is likely to make clipping (and hence distortion) more likely.
belushka:
thanks guys, I'll try that...
BTW, what's the difference between just boosting the Bass in rockbox and lifting up low frequencies in EQ ? is there any?
saratoga:
--- Quote from: belushka on July 14, 2012, 05:02:13 AM ---thanks guys, I'll try that...
BTW, what's the difference between just boosting the Bass in rockbox and lifting up low frequencies in EQ ? is there any?
--- End quote ---
I think on a couple devices it uses any bass boost built into the hardware, but on most its just a simple EQ setting.
belushka:
I found something interesting about Sony Clear Bass. This is from another forum:
"IMHO the old sony MD player's MEGABASS goes deeper that the newer generation chips. The toshiba amps on those players have dedicated low-pass filtes with twin attentuation for auto-fallback when the bass cannot be generated. CLEARBASS on the NW-S series uses complete attentuation that decreases the total output of the signal to preserve the depth of the sound. which I am not a big fan of as it is good when driving line level loads but not very pleasent using headphones. cowon's M3B also attenuates the total signal but it seems to sustain better than the NW-S series. The sony's later A series seem to be able to attenuate the bass only rather than the total signal. so it really depends on which model you have and what kind of attenuation you prefer."
Don't really understand what it means. Can someone explain what he says about S series?
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