From: Mehmet Catalbas <mehmet.catalbas_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:32:44 +0200

Thom Johansen wrote:

Small wonder. The equaliser alone will pretty much max out the Ipod CPU,
> depending on which codec you use. Adding more will certainly not help the
> situation.


I really like crossfeed, music sounds more realistic to me and after that I
realized I need all the mentioned settings. I have achieved fantastic
results with Koss KSC75. Anyway, my archive consists of Musepack encoded
music, so can I say CPU intension is higher when EQ is enabled on Musepack?

The only thing you mention which grabs RAM is the database. The other three
> just use CPU power. The most hungry of them is the EQ with all five bands
> enabled. Dithering and crossfeed are about equally intensive. We hope this
> CPU problem will be dealt with better when we can use the second CPU core in
> the Ipods.


I thought slow reaction comes from memory load but I do understand now it is
about complex EQ settings tiring CPU. I'll give it a try for HW EQ. Thanks
in advance.
Received on 2006-12-18