[UkrainianJew]

Curiosity question: has anyone done any work on reverse-engineering the Sony Mega Bass feature they used to have on old analog players (and ported to some early MP3 ones)? It sounded so much deeper than any phone/sound card would give. I'm wondering if it's some purely analog schenanigans (some tricky extra capacitors?) or if it can be replicated in pure software.

[csdvrx]

> It sounded so much deeper than any phone/sound card would give

If you have a full Sony setup (walkman + headphones) DSEE Extreme sounds just like that, and seems to be purely software.

One of my "tests" is to run my favorite Pavarotti rendition of Verdi's La donna e mobile - with DSEE Extreme on, it's night and day.

However, on my normal FLACs, it's far less important.

Some people even dislike it: https://www.reddit.com/r/sony/comments/ipcqf9/dsee_extreme_o...

[fortran77]

There’s a Wikipedia page on how these techniques work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental

I’ve played pipe organs that do the same thing with “resultant” stops to fake 32’ or 64’ stops.