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In Reply to: If you like it use it. posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on August 12, 2003 at 07:18:05:
It also has to be said that the 362 is near the bottom of the
range. The 862 may be more to your liking.
Follow Ups:
I guess its a mistake on my part, purchasing a piece of equipment without knowing what it actually does.Can someone explain to me what a BBE sonic maximizer does?
thanks!
Steve
it makes things sound really nice...
The primary function of basic BBE processing is to retard the arrival at the ear of low frequencies, which in turn makes high frequencies arrive relatively earlier. The theory is that this compensates for the typical time-delay encountered by high frequencies when the high and low frequency elements of the speaker system are not time aligned. Beyond a corrective action, if the high frequency content of a musical tone arrive at the ear prior to the low frequency content the brain will psychoacoustically perceive the sound as having more high frequency content, or 'brighter', without an actual increase in high frequency output. This may be what your semi-informed salesman was referring to, and is part of BB's 'pitch', but even a quadrupling of high frequency (5kHz and up)content adds little stress to either amps or speakers as there is very little power being used at those frequencies anyway.
Aw come on. I was going to hold my tongue, but the hype got to me. I was there when the original BBE 202 was released and I developed the BBE2002 home model myself.Here's what the "Magic BBE" does:
1-the bass is boosted below around 200 Hz
2-the highs above around 2kHz are dynamically boosted based on midrange level
3-either the mids or highs (can't remember--it's been 15 years) are flipped in phase.thassall. Yes, it makes cheap stuff sound a lot better. But time alignment? Not really.
Itzhak Perlman said it made him seasick....
AJR
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