I bought a WowThing (TM) from SRS Labs for
use at home (
http://www.wowthing.com )
It's a little blue box with a few knobs that sits
between your sound card and your computer
speakers. As near as I can tell, it's a little
one-chip DSP device that does some sonic
brightening and 3D spatializing on whatever
signal you feed into it. It was ~$30, but it
makes a _dramatic_ difference, even with
cheapo computer speakers. Unlike
the plugins, it has the advantage of improving
_all_ the audio from your computer (not
just MP3's played through specific software),
and it works for those of us/you using
something besides Windows.
I bought it as a lark, but found it significantly
impressive to recommend it to several friends.
-d.w.
Ernesto Ikerd wrote:
quoted 11 lines Have any of you tried to optimize an MP3 file? Since I have become such
> >Have any of you tried to optimize an MP3 file? Since I have become such
> >a huge fan of MP3 downloads lately I've found a whole bunch of music I'm
> >sure I could never find elsewhere (Big thanks to the IDM list for this).
> >The problem I'm having however is that the fidelity isn't very good. No
> >true high notes and no deep bass notes.
>
> There is an MP3 player plug in by Arboretum systems
> http://www.arboretum.com (creators of Hyperprism, Raygun & Ionizer)
> called "Realizer". Right now I think its only for SoundJam (Mac) or
> WinAmp (PC) but it can REALLY beef up thin sounding mp3s with a lil
> tweaking. Here is the marketing blurb from the webpage:
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