MAS-Player and 68030

[Xanxi]

Hi.

I have a MAS-Player. I think it's a Pro version hence it has both parallel and serial connectors.

I though it was suffucient for full hardware support of MP3 decoding, but it's not, on my current computer at least (A1200 - Blizz 1230@50MHz + FPU - 64 MB FASTRAM). I tried reading a 320 kbs 44 KHz MP3 from an USB key, from the hard drive or from RAM: but i only get choppy output while multitasking, and most of the time when doing nothing.
I use the simple program which comes with the MAS Player, with 0 priority and 2MB buffer.

Any idea what i am doing wrong?

I remember to have used this flawlessy some years ago but was on an Apollo 1260.


Subsidiary question:
I connect the output from the MAS Player to the "line in" connector of my Logitech speakers, while in the meantime, the Paula output is connected to the main jack entry of these speakers. Could there be any danger for the amiga circuitry (some kind of dangerous electronic loop or so)?

Thanks for your help.

[Xanxi]

Indeed, things are much better with a 128 kbits MP3.

Actually, tenacious, i can hear a great difference between 320 and 128 kbits. 128 kbits is a bit too compressed to my hears and i usually prefer 160 kbits, the best compromise.

I have noticed that after i unplug the output from the MASPlayer to the speaker, the miggy seems to have lost some audio channels from Paula when i listen to some mods. After a warm reset, everything is back to normal.
So it's probably not a good choice to use the line in entry of these speakers and i will go after a good switcher.

Anyway, how can we distinguish a MAS Player from a Pro version and what is the actual difference?

[Xanxi]

So, no one answered yet about the differences between the normal and the pro version??