Of course. The reason we'd like to see it integrated with the player software is so that we could turn it on and off and adjust its parameters.

You're right in that its main usage would be in the car when you're driving at highway speeds. But as stated in that article about compression (the one I linked in my compression explanation), there are many in-home situations where you might want it as well. That's why the author of that article suggested that consumer products should have a "party" button on them, because that's one of the places you'd want to use it.

Another thing that was discussed in the Reviews forum was the idea that it could possibly use the mic input to detect ambient noise, and increase the agressiveness of the compression as the road noise increased. That would be awesome.

Still, your suggestion that it have separate home/car personalities is a good one. Empeg guys: As you're designing the plug-in specification for this kind of thing, make sure that home/car personality detection is part of the API, K?

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Tony Fabris