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Re: Clari-Fi Headphone Adapter ‘Cleans’ Your MP3s

Stuart Halliday — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:36:44 -0000

I'd love to know how they get the DC power required to feed their device when 3.5" jack sockets do not provide any level of DC and the power output is usually less than 100mW.

One suspects that it's not electronic but just a passive low pass filter. That's a 99p capacitor and resistor mate.

Re: Clari-Fi Headphone Adapter ‘Cleans’ Your MP3s

Elusiven — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:48:57 -0000

Qender you are right about what a compressor is, but this works in a way that is more sophisticated than what you described. It allows 'good' high frequencies to be heard, but compresses highs that are peaking. The overall sound quality isn't degraded, it's actually improved.

There is an independent early review today on slashgear, which speaks to this: http://www.slashgear.com/cl...

Re: Clari-Fi Headphone Adapter ‘Cleans’ Your MP3s

qender — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:28:35 -0000

Apparently this is just an audio compressor, not compression as in a zip file, but as in the audio term. A simple way of explaining this is that if the sound were a picture, it would lower the contrast. I suppose their logic is that loud noises will hurt you, so the loud noises should be brought down to the same volume and the quiet ones. not really much point in that as it totally degrades the sound quality! I suppose it could be useful for a podcast or talk radio if the recording was done especially badly and the volumes are too different.

Re: Clari-Fi Headphone Adapter ‘Cleans’ Your MP3s

mark — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:49:45 -0000

You do realize that what comes out of the earphone port is analog, right?

Re: Clari-Fi Headphone Adapter ‘Cleans’ Your MP3s

Al — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:30:48 -0000

Oooh! Custom silicone. I hate that fake non-designer silicone.