Bass Boost

[akirasprt]

Hey, does anybody know how much more battery power the bass boost for the ipaq eats up, if any?

[Jason Dunn]

I don't think it would make any difference - the amp uses a set power rate at a set volume, regardless of frequency. AFAIK anyway. :mrgreen:

[Janak Parekh]

I'm pretty sure Jason's right (i.e., bass boost is a DSP function) and besides, audio is not anywhere near the biggest drain on a Pocket PC (the processor and display are the two biggest power draws).

--janak

[Dave Beauvais]

I managed to blow three of the four crappy stock speakers in my old car a couple weeks ago when playing some music on my h5455 via an iRock FM transmitter (http://www.myirock.com/players/default.asp). I had the iPAQ's bass boost all the way up and also had the bass on the car stereo maxed. At the beginning of "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence (http://www.evanescence.com), there are two moments where there is some very low bass for about three seconds each. Since I essentially had two bass boosts going, it did some pretty nasty things to my old stock speakers. D'oh!

The moral of the story: Unless you have a nice system that can actually handle very low frequencies, don't use the bass boost for anything other than headphones. :)

--Dave

[Janak Parekh]

I managed to blow three of the four crappy stock speakers in my old car a couple weeks ago when playing some music on my h5455 via an iRock FM transmitter (http://www.myirock.com/players/default.asp). I had the iPAQ's bass boost all the way up and also had the bass on the car stereo maxed. At the beginning of "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence (http://www.evanescence.com), there are two moments where there is some very low bass for about three seconds each. Since I essentially had two bass boosts going, it did some pretty nasty things to my old stock speakers. D'oh!
8O Weren't the speakers struggling to replicate earlier bass lines?

(If you need another song that'll do the same, try Life by the Beta Band (http://www.betaband.com/ns6.shtml), on their Hot Shots II album... a great album, BTW, with a awesome bass section on that piece).

--janak