Midrange Audio Bias on BB

Just to follow up.

The issue I was having with the audio was due to the BB Demo. It was not working correctly
on my motherboard with the ALC892 realtek chipset. Basically audio was present, 19Khz was
present but there was no 38Khz switching, so the music was in mono.

I downloaded a beta ver v0.90.95 and right out of the box this version works great even without
adjusting tilt etc. Audio is clean and solid. Listening to radio stations in my market doing a quick
sweep across the dial the audio quality, seperation of stereo image, overall listenability is stunning
compaired to the commerical fm stations.

Peak control of the deviation works very well. The processed audio is more dynamic overall than other
stations. Its easy to listen to regardless of the format. I have hit the BB processor with everything from
classical to rock, techno , trance.. Wow its just amazing. Even using some grunge lower quality mp3’s it
still sounds great.

It might be an idea to replace the downloadable ver with the beta ver on the site.

Thanks Jane R.

I would be really leery about using XP for a 24×7 system thats expected
to remain up all the time. The memory management on xp is not that great.
Windows CE might be a better option but I dont know if the ESI Juli drivers
support it.

The new line of win7 embedded looks like a viable alternate for a dedicated box.

I did some additional testing on both XP and win7 using the realtek ALC892 chip.
The chip works fine at 192Khz. The drivers for xp are slightly harder to configure
in that enabling the 192khz bit rate is not obvious. The output sampling rate is
combined with the analog output rate but to change it you have to go to the
digital spidif settings in the realtek HD manager. Also enabling the realtek mixer
disables the 38Khz SUB carrier completly.

I will go ahead and get a ESI card. There cards appear to be more dedicated to
higher end systems.

The current version of BB processor seems to work good even though its listed as
a beta. I assume the entire BB line is very much a work in progress. I was wondering
when there will be a shipable product thats gone through a complete testing cycle.

Thanks J

I am sure they are. The product is really good imho. My point I guess was
if one goes out and purchases a product from competing manufacturers such
as Orban or others It dont say demo on the product or beta on the piece of
hardware.

One could argue that every piece of hardware that contains software is a beta,
hey if it compiles ship it right..

I think the label "Beta" detracts from selling the software. Beta to me means it
aint finished or it has problems.

I looked over the site trying to find info on the testing cycle that the products go
through. I could only find info that people posted in regards to how the software worked
for them. Typically most manufacturers have baseline standards for testing, the begging
question is whats the BB standard ?

Is it hobbyware or commerical or what you see is what you get ?. It would be nice to
see a reference design that details hardware so as to create a box thats got 24×7 uptime
as a baseline to get in the game.

Either way I think its excellent. A job very well done IMHO.

Thanks J