older Alpine decks have this bbe processing. What is this? Benefits and/or problems?

its kinda just like a different type of loudness

uh uh, not a "different kind of loudness".
BBE stands for Barcus Berry Electronics, that deals primarily with manufacturing transducers for musical instruments, one of their founders is L. Fender (Fender Guitars).
Their electronic circuit has been used a lot in the recording and broadcast industries as well as the audio industry. It enhances harmonics to allow greater accuracy in reproducing a natural sound.

I have a 1/2 din dedicated BBE processor. Model #3012. It's cool [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

i love bbe processing, it just sounds more open and airy. very clean and dynamic. I'm currently looking for an alpine eq with bbe.

It's what really helps the Alpine CDA-D855 sound so good.

For sound, that's easily Alpine's second best deck.
I love it.

Would the best be the 7996 or 7990?

whats their best deck?

^ 7909. Nothing else comes close.

just curious; What is it that makes the 7909 that much better than any other Alpine? Is it multi bit, burr brown, better tolerance parts? The reason is that i'm running a cda 9827, based on the Alpine text this deck has the same components and specs as their much more expensive decks. the only apparent difference that I can see is the features i.e better base engine, more colours for the face etc. I personally don't like all the bells and whistles and I hate fold down faces,because I am a cd changer. My feeling is the less junk in the unit the less noise and heat and theoretically better sound.

whats their best deck? </font>[/QUOTE]IMO?

7949. Just my oppinion, I love the layout and the SQ is unmatched by any Alpine deck. The 7990 don't touch it...in second is the D855 and if you have never heard one, you'll never understand what I'm talking about. Third is the 7909, another of the best layout's I've ever seen, very simple, yet unmatched quality for it's time.

The 7990 is great with the H900, it's a much better combo than the P9 for layout, it's much easier to use, IMO. The P9 confused me. But the 7990 on it's own doesn't match any of those 3 decks I listed SQ wise. It sounds great for sure, but I wouldn't pay 5K for it....maybe for the 7990 AND the h900, but not just the 7990.

The 7949 is a POS though. [img]graemlins/puke.gif[/img]

Again - only an opinion.

Bad Boys Electronics [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]