Burwen Bobcat?

[scott wurcer]

Anyone have any info on what the software does? BTW this is a plugin for WMP that uses an external DAC to make "even MP3's sound wonderful". Seeing Dick aligned with the tweak crowd was a surprise to me. He used to think 12 or 15 741's in the signal path was no problem. Says patent pending but the only patent application on file is for "unnatural reverb". Also $1500 seems steep since the BOM on a USB DAC must be down to <$5 by now.

[vuki]

I think that's just what it does - adds reverb. How else could one try to make MP3's to "sound wonderful". Look at the pat. application claims 47-49.

[scott wurcer]

> An electronic reverberation system employs a processor to produce a plurality of delays samples that are added to a direct signal to produce reverberant sound. The disclosed system generates or employs a list of gain value pairs that are produced based on control settings or are provided as fixed coefficients. The processor generates reverberation samples by applying these coefficients to delay samples and summing their amplitudes to produce reverberation waveform samples. The reverberation waveform samples are added to the direct signal. <

I guess so, but aren't there at least a dozen box's out there or software packages with arbitrary reverb generators? My brother has a 4 DSP box that could probably do many layers of nested reverb. It's probably the most popular ("clean") guitar effect of all time. I can certainly do it (not real time) with a Cooledit (Audition) script.

BTW reverb is the first thing I look for to turn off when I think something sounds funny.

[vuki]

Originally posted by scott wurcer

I guess so, but aren't there at least a dozen box's out there or software packages with arbitrary reverb generators? My brother has a 4 DSP box that could probably do many layers of nested reverb. It's probably the most popular ("clean") guitar effect of all time. I can certainly do it (not real time) with a Cooledit (Audition) script.

BTW reverb is the first thing I look for to turn off when I think something sounds funny. [/B]

Of course, but how many audiophiles that buy $x000 cables knows about it? And after a nice chinese amplifier that's another thing Mr. Levinson is offering to them. Now, even their MP3's are gone have audiophile sound with soundstage larger than life.
I guess the reverb is applied frequency dependent.

[MashBill]

You can buy just the WM plugin for $299.00. I've been looking for more info/comments on it, but am not finding much.

Bill

[planet10]

Why did they pick WM? It has to be close to the worst player out there. I guess it does have the benefit of sitting on a lot of people's HDs by default.

Once you toss the info, there is no way to get it back....

dave

[MashBill]

Originally posted by planet10
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Once you toss the info, there is no way to get it back....

dave

Can you please explain this statement? I do not understand.
Thanks,
Bill

[planet10]

Originally posted by MashBill
Can you please explain this statement? I do not understand.

If you take an analog recording and decimate it to make a CD you throw away alot of information that is in the original signal. Take that CD and make it an MP3 and you throw away more (in many cases as much as 90%) ... you are left with a pale shadow of what you started with.

Once the information is lost, it cannot be recovered -- ie you can't make an MP3 sound as good as the digital stream it came from, let alone the original analog.

That says nothing thou about taking the MP3 and making it sound more tolerable.

dave

Friends don't let Friends listen to MP3s