Newsgroup: it.hobby.hi-fi
Titolo: Sonic enhancer by BBE

Io sto ascoltando un prototipo o comunque di minor livello qualitativo
che è diventato il prodotto di cui è uscita la versione per uso home
stereo chiamata ARS.
Mi sembra ,anche se ero molto scettico, funzioni molto bene.
Segue Cosa ne dice la stampa,cosa ne pensate,lo conoscete?:
 
"BBE® is the most hearable advance in audio technology since high
fidelity itself" Music Connection Magazine ". . . phenomenal
separation of instruments . . . clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and other
reeds are refreshingly distinct in tone. The same goes for french
horns and trombones, or violins and violas." Recording Magazine ". .
.with BBE® you're in Aural heaven" Music & Sound Output Magazine "BBE®
is the most inexpensive way to stand out from the competition. BBE® is
easy to use and will make your music so exciting, you'll be booked
solid." DJ Times Magazine "The BBE process is like removing a blanket
from your speakers... makes poor speakers sound good and good speakers
sound great." Mobile Beat Magazine "The BBE process adds a little
touch of sonic magic not achievable with an EQ ... a good choice when
you want easy, twist-a-knob improvements in your live or recorded
music" Pro Audio Review Magazine "I like what I heard. Listening on a
variety of loudspeakers: JBL, KRK, Meyer, Tannoy, Yamaha and a few
lesser known names I discovered that the BBE® Process provided a nice
punch to older recordings without being brittle or shrill. The LF
contour emphasized the bottom end, without adding undue boominess" Mix
Magazine "The BBE can be a real life saver when dealing with poor
quality source material, whether it be in film/video or broadcast
production, mastering or tape duplication chains." Mix Magazine "As
close as we've seen to a magic black box, the BBE® is probably the
most cost-effective improvement you can add to your rig. It's a top
contender for the "Biggest Bang for the Buck" award." Guitar Player
Magazine "The 386 is ideal for the home studio; it lets you slam a
wide range of clear and usable acoustic guitar tones onto tape without
fuss. If you have a stand-alone recorder, you can even bypass the
mixer. The preamp isn't limited to acoustic guitar: The enhancer
beefed up the bottom end and focused the stringy overtones on a
Chandler fretless bass, and added zip to a vintage lap steel. It
should do the same for amplified dobro, mandolin, or classical guitar.
The 386, with its neat-o enhancer, should serve you well." Guitar
Player Magazine "All of the mixes we played gained extra sparkle and
clarity when processed with BBE.... it makes everything sound
marvelous with virtually no effort. No kidding!" Keyboard Magazine
"Transients are enhanced, becoming more tactile, more present. Nuances
in the high and low end are intensified; there is an added fullness
and clarity. Stereo-program becomes more three dimensional, more
spacious. Dense textures become penetrable, with a more palpable space
around each discrete instrument. This is powerful stuff. Maybe its
voodoo?" Home Studio Recording Magazine
ciao

 Segue Cosa ne dice la stampa,cosa ne pensate,lo conoscete?:
..perche' non segue un tuo giudizio...magari critico sul cosone?
Inoltre, cosa fa di preciso il cosone?....espansione stereo? immagine,
colorazioni etc?...
Saro' prevenuto, ma perche' se hanno registrato un concerto in un modo devo
alterarlo?......
Purtroppo sti aggeggi li stanno utilizzando abbondantemente anche le case
"rinomate" su artisti che non hanno bisogno di certi aggeggi.
Ciao

...
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Si limita a regolarizzare i transienti ed a migliorare la fase alle
alte frequenze,dicono tipicamente in ritardo sulle basse.
Risultato il suono è molto più aperto,luminoso,ma non è aggressivo,
con un ampli che non lo è di suo, ma aumenta molto la trasparenza.
Se lo escludi il suono sembra offuscato.
In usa costa 200$ , per  far capire che ne vale la candela.
Ma migliorano anche le basse frequenze che non sono rimbombanti perchè
più presenti agli estremi ma ben frenate.
Qualsiasi suono entri ottiene questi benefici.
Anche con la classica ottieni dei violini, viole fantastici.
Per le trombe è ovvio.
Per ottenere lo stesso con un nuovo ampli devi spendere milioni di
lit.
Io uso AM04f e MOS80.
Ciao

alte frequenze,dicono tipicamente in ritardo sulle basse.
di solito non è il contrario? Non per niente in molti diffusori
arretrano i tweeter rispetto ai woofer.
Saluti,
--
	Denis Sbragion
	InfoTecna
	Tel: 
+39 0362 805396
, Fax: 
+39 0362 805404
	URL: 
http://www.infotecna.it

 Ciao

 Mi sembra ,anche se ero molto scettico, funzioni molto bene.
Mi viene in mente il Barcus Berry Engineering,
una specie di loudness utilizzato da Alpine e
a volte da JVC nel car hi-fi.
--
Ryoma
Il difficile non e' essere intelligenti, ma sembrarlo

 a volte da JVC nel car hi-fi.
Ecco maggiori info:by 
bbesound.com
La stranezza è che è vero.
With BBE® sound processing technology, music has great "live presence"
.
Highs are clearer, naturally brilliant and more finely detailed.  Lows
are tight, well defined and harmonically rich.
Electric and acoustic guitars have sparkle, clarity and definition.
BBE® sound processing brings out the harmonic complexity and bite
significantly increases cutting power. Each note of a chord becomes
more distinct. Brings your guitar out of the "mud".
Keyboards and synthesizers take on new realism. Percussive and plucked
sounds are clear and sharp, chords are rich and full-textured, each
note in the chord retains its integrity.
Electric & acoustic basses take on that rich, earthy "CD" sound. Five
string players love what it does to the "B" string. Extremely tight,
punchy bottom end with all the presence, clarity and bite of the top
end.
Vocals cut through the amplified instrument so you can be heard
better. Lyrics of the sound are no longer "buried in the mix".
Recording studios, home and professional, on individual tracks,
multitrack down to two track, cassette duplication and mastering, BBE®
sound processing brings out the full spectrum of sound. Mixes are
fresh and sparkly. BBE® sound processing expands the spatial dimension
of stereo reverb and chorus.
BBE® sound processing will give you enough sparkle to restore
instrument clarity or increase vocal intelligibility without
appreciably adding level.
 
ciao
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 a volte da JVC nel car hi-fi.
The Color Codes of Sound
To understand how BBE®  sound processing works, consider the
characteristics of a loudspeaker and what we expect from one. Among a
loudspeaker's most important requirements is the ability to reproduce
transients - the brief high-energy bursts at the beginning of sounds.
The transients then evolve into harmonics. It is the particular
amplitudes and phase relationships of these transients and harmonics
which add the unique color and character to each sound.
Varying either the amplitude or the phase of the transients and
harmonics within signal causes distortion of the sound's
characteristics. By drastically altering the transient response of a
sound, it's possible to make a cymbal crash seem like a car crash.
Similarly, altering amplitude or phase relationships of the harmonics
in a clarinet's tone can make it sound more like a flute, or a French
horn like an oboe.
AMPLITUDE AND PHASE
A loudspeaker's transient response is typically expressed in terms of
amplitude response (how quickly it reacts to an incoming signal), with
little or no regard to phase response (whether high and low
frequencies are reproduced at the proper time). The ability to
accurately represent a sound's phase and amplitude define the quality
of a loudspeaker's transient and steady - state, or sustained,
response.
If a loudspeaker's amplitude response curve were linear, then the
relationship between the high and low frequencies would be correct.
And if a loudspeaker's phase response curve were linear, then the low
and high frequencies would reach the listener's ears in their correct
time order. This would result in faithful reproduction of the sound.
However, this isn't normally the case.
WHY IS LIVE SOUND SO PLEASING?
When we listen to live music, all of the highs and lows reach our ears
in the same relationship to each other as when they were created by
the instruments. If this same live music were to be recorded and
played back through a loudspeaker system, the loudspeaker would
introduce frequency-dependent phase shifting. The inductance of the
speaker's voice coil creates a stronger impedance as the signal's
frequency increases, resulting in a time delay. Consequently,
frequency components with large negative phase shifts (high
frequencies) arrive at the listener's ear later than signals
undergoing small phase shifts (low frequencies). The resultant signal
is distorted in the time domain to the listener's ear. Audio material
containing sharp transients (e.g., percussive and plucked sounds such
as drums, guitar, piano and harpsichord, etc.) suffers the most from
this phenomenon, making it seem unfocused, or mushy.
In order to address these problems inherent in basic loudspeaker
design, BBE Sound, Inc. has developed a circuit that has two primary
functions. The first adjusts the phase relationships of the low, mid
and high frequencies. Since a loudspeaker's natural tendency is to add
progressively longer delay times to higher frequencies, the BBE®
circuit adds progressively longer delay times to lower frequencies.
This creates a kind of "mirror" curve to the time delay curve created
in the speaker and neutralizes its distorting effect.
The second major element in BBE® sound processing is the augmentation
of the higher and lower frequencies. Loudspeakers tend to be less
efficient in their extreme treble and bass ranges. Most
sound-reproducing systems include a circuit for boosting high and low
frequencies, showing an accepted awareness of the loudspeaker's
efficiency problem. BBE® sound processing, however, provides a
dynamic, program-driven augmentation which combines with the phase
compensation feature to restore the brilliance and clarity of the
original live sound. The result is, as one professional journalist
phrased it, "The most hearable advance in audio technology since high
fidelity itself!"
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