JBL's MS-8. What does it do? - Page 35

awehmeye · 12-19-2007, 07:27 AM

Sorry, Lee.

SoundQ1z24 · 12-19-2007, 07:33 PM

It is ok... I get forgot about alot. =)

awehmeye · 12-27-2007, 08:06 AM

I think I promised to post a photo of this thing a few months ago. We now have final hardware. Getting closer...

glennQNYC · 12-27-2007, 08:36 AM

OK, I'll bite... What are the headphones for Andy?

glennQ

travisroy · 12-27-2007, 09:12 AM

Glenn, I don't remember exactly but I think he said they are for part of the auto-tuning process. Its in the first few pages of this thread I think.

Just went and looked the first post of the thread and he mentions

Quote:

MS-8 comes with the pre-amp/amp, a small display, a wireless remote control, a binaural microphone and a setup CD.

awehmeye · 12-27-2007, 10:16 AM

They just look like headphones...actually, that's the binaural microphone. Instead of a speaker in each earpiece, there's a microphone on the outside. It's hard to see the hole for the mic in that picture. The ear pads just help to mute the test tones while you're tuning.

awehmeye · 12-27-2007, 10:21 AM

Here's a picture of the microphone side. Behind the little hole is a Panasonic WM-61 clone. It's the same microphone that EVERYONE uses. The correction file for the microphone and the shape of the body of the headphones is stored in the MS-8 memory and applied to each of the measurements. The baseline measurements are made with a KEMAR head-microphone--so after the correction filter, it's pretty close to usiing a KEMAR head for your measurements.

travisroy · 12-27-2007, 10:23 AM

See, having new news on the ms-8 is just getting my hopes up like my lil cousins about a week before Christmas...

Thanks for the updates though!

OldOneEye · 12-28-2007, 01:29 PM

Andy,
Was this the hardware for the most part that has been shown (at CES and/or SEMA) for quite some time?

I love what it can do, not sure about the processor case itself (doesn't have that JBL "look" like some of the current amps).

Juan

awehmeye · 12-28-2007, 01:53 PM

Hey Juan,
Yeah, The first year at CES, we showed a hand-built early sample in my Volvo. About 20% of the actual software worked in that one. Last year at CES we showed a later sample--off-tool heatsink and hand-built PCB that included about 60% of the total software package. The picture above is final hardware--production-level stuff. That's what it'll look like.