Dick Burwen's 20,000 Watt Home Hi-Fi System
BURWEN BOBCAT RE plugs into the Windows Media Player, taking advantage of its
music and video library. It enhances sound when listening, ripping or burning CDs,
and high-speed converts files to MP3s that give your iPod or musical cell phone
sound comparable with a $100,000 hi-fi system. Works with your computer sound
card or any DAC. PRO PRODUCTS too. Visit www.burwenbobcat.com
music and video library. It enhances sound when listening, ripping or burning CDs,
and high-speed converts files to MP3s that give your iPod or musical cell phone
sound comparable with a $100,000 hi-fi system. Works with your computer sound
card or any DAC. PRO PRODUCTS too. Visit www.burwenbobcat.com
For PROFESSIONAL MASTERING and skilled audiophiles - the daddy of BURWEN
BOBCAT
AUDIO SPLENDORTM - Mighty Bobcat
Software tone controls and ambiance generation in 1 to 7.1 channels
Burwen Recorder-Player and advanced Burwen Bobcat
BOBCAT
AUDIO SPLENDORTM - Mighty Bobcat
Software tone controls and ambiance generation in 1 to 7.1 channels
Burwen Recorder-Player and advanced Burwen Bobcat
How is it used?
Using 23 sliders on the screen of a notebook PC you balance to your taste the tone and
ambiance of any 1 to 8 channel program sources played through all your speakers. Then
you save the settings in a library. The next time you click on that program name, it
automatically recalls your entire system setup and tone control positions to produce the same
sound.
You provide a specified PC and FireWire connected analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog
converter box for processing the audio. Any number of networked notebook PCs can act as
wireless remote controllers.
Using 23 sliders on the screen of a notebook PC you balance to your taste the tone and
ambiance of any 1 to 8 channel program sources played through all your speakers. Then
you save the settings in a library. The next time you click on that program name, it
automatically recalls your entire system setup and tone control positions to produce the same
sound.
You provide a specified PC and FireWire connected analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog
converter box for processing the audio. Any number of networked notebook PCs can act as
wireless remote controllers.
What else does it do?
AUDIO SPLENDOR can store individual speaker equalization that adds as much as an octave
to low frequency response. It can store source compensation, for example to flatten phono
response or match CD. You can boost low frequencies up to 80 dB with accuracy and steps
of only 0.1 dB. When you select the number of input channels it automatically configures the
mix of direct signal and ambiance to all your speakers - and you can change it all any way you
like.
AUDIO SPLENDOR can store individual speaker equalization that adds as much as an octave
to low frequency response. It can store source compensation, for example to flatten phono
response or match CD. You can boost low frequencies up to 80 dB with accuracy and steps
of only 0.1 dB. When you select the number of input channels it automatically configures the
mix of direct signal and ambiance to all your speakers - and you can change it all any way you
like.
How does it clarify sound?
Adding wide band sound reflections and balancing the tone makes recordings sound fuller,
smoother, more musical, and much cleaner without sounding hollow. Stereo CDs play
through multi-channel speakers with subtle ambiance and exceed unprocessed SACDs and
analog recordings. When watching movies voices become easier to understand and gun
shots and crashes have real impact. The ambiance generation greatly reduces high
frequency irritants that contribute to listening fatigue whether originating from the recording
or transmission process, studio mixing, original music instruments, or dry acoustics at
recording or playback.
Adding wide band sound reflections and balancing the tone makes recordings sound fuller,
smoother, more musical, and much cleaner without sounding hollow. Stereo CDs play
through multi-channel speakers with subtle ambiance and exceed unprocessed SACDs and
analog recordings. When watching movies voices become easier to understand and gun
shots and crashes have real impact. The ambiance generation greatly reduces high
frequency irritants that contribute to listening fatigue whether originating from the recording
or transmission process, studio mixing, original music instruments, or dry acoustics at
recording or playback.
Who needs it?
Everyone who cares about sound needs tone controls. Frequency response is the most
important characteristic of a sound system. At $14,000 for software and another $3,000 to
$4,000 for equipment you supply, AUDIO SPLENDOR is justified only for really serious
systems. AUDIO SPLENDOR is not just for turning an explosion into an earthquake. For the
perfectionist who wants to accurately match the original acoustic sound it provides the high
resolution in 0.1 db steps needed for small adjustments in tonal balance that make a
significant improvement in naturalness and imaging. In professional use it is an essential
tool for making 5-channel SACDs or DVDs from older two-channel program material by
adding subtle ambiance in all the channels.
Everyone who cares about sound needs tone controls. Frequency response is the most
important characteristic of a sound system. At $14,000 for software and another $3,000 to
$4,000 for equipment you supply, AUDIO SPLENDOR is justified only for really serious
systems. AUDIO SPLENDOR is not just for turning an explosion into an earthquake. For the
perfectionist who wants to accurately match the original acoustic sound it provides the high
resolution in 0.1 db steps needed for small adjustments in tonal balance that make a
significant improvement in naturalness and imaging. In professional use it is an essential
tool for making 5-channel SACDs or DVDs from older two-channel program material by
adding subtle ambiance in all the channels.
burwenaudio is Dick Burwen
For 63 years I have been trying to produce the most entertaining sound in my own hi-fi
systems. My "20,000 Watt Home Hi-Fi System" was pictured on the cover of AUDIO, April
1976. You can print or read my article "20,000 Watt Home Hi-Fi Gets Digital EQ"* from
Audio, April 1995 describing the two-channel predecessor of AUDIO SPLENDOR. Altogether
I have spent 6 man-years developing AUDIO SPLENDOR and a companion ambiance
generation application, OPTIMUM AMBIANCETM, for my own sound system. This program
places subtle artificial reverberation in each speaker channel that makes brasses brassier
and violins sweeter in a way that no acoustic space can produce. On low-reverberant
program material such as my own older jazz recordings I can completely change the sound.
AUDIO SPLENDOR includes push buttons for my best outputs from OPTIMUM AMBIANCE.
The sound is better than I dreamed and it was worth every minute.
Burwen Bobcat uses 19 fixed outputs from AUDIO SPLENDOR, and I hope will be
appreciated by millions of people.
*This file is in Adobe .pdf format If you do not have the Adobe Reader installed, you can
download it for free from Adobe.
For 63 years I have been trying to produce the most entertaining sound in my own hi-fi
systems. My "20,000 Watt Home Hi-Fi System" was pictured on the cover of AUDIO, April
1976. You can print or read my article "20,000 Watt Home Hi-Fi Gets Digital EQ"* from
Audio, April 1995 describing the two-channel predecessor of AUDIO SPLENDOR. Altogether
I have spent 6 man-years developing AUDIO SPLENDOR and a companion ambiance
generation application, OPTIMUM AMBIANCETM, for my own sound system. This program
places subtle artificial reverberation in each speaker channel that makes brasses brassier
and violins sweeter in a way that no acoustic space can produce. On low-reverberant
program material such as my own older jazz recordings I can completely change the sound.
AUDIO SPLENDOR includes push buttons for my best outputs from OPTIMUM AMBIANCE.
The sound is better than I dreamed and it was worth every minute.
Burwen Bobcat uses 19 fixed outputs from AUDIO SPLENDOR, and I hope will be
appreciated by millions of people.
*This file is in Adobe .pdf format If you do not have the Adobe Reader installed, you can
download it for free from Adobe.
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