There was a link on AM's homepage to DFX for years. It's fine on the listening end, but users complained when we tried it and similar programs on the broadcasting end. The details are many and varied.
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Originally posted by RogorMortis
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Welcome to DFX Audio Enhancement for Winamp!
DFX dramatically improves the sound quality of Internet and digital audio. Whether you're listening to downloaded audio tracks or live Internet radio streams, DFX will greatly enhance your listening experience.
DFX enhances Internet-oriented audio listening experiences by correcting for the sonic limitations of nearly all the popular data compressed Internet audio formats. Data compressed audio suffers from two major problems: loss of high frequency fidelity and loss of stereo separation and depth.
DFX compensates for the loss of high frequency fidelity by carefully regenerating the missing high frequency harmonics in the audio. DFX then compensates for the reduced stereo imaging and depth by carefully generating ambience and stereo depth.
An additional factor limiting the quality of Internet audio playback is the use of speakers that are narrowly spaced and located close to the listener's ears. These location constraints reduce the perceived stereo field and reduce the natural room ambience which is important to good sounding audio.
In addition to compensating for reduced stereo depth in the audio source, DFX's added ambience and imaging works particularly well in correcting for these limitations of closely spaced and located speakers.
Typical PC-based multimedia playback systems and even home stereo playback systems also suffer from limited dynamic range and headroom. DFX compensates for this limited headroom by carefully processing the audio to increase the perceived loudness of the audio without altering the perceived dynamic range. This can dramatically increase the undistorted playback level available when listening to MP3 and other streaming audio files.
DFX performs all audio processing with 32-bit floating point precision, yielding truly professional audio quality. Since Internet audio playback systems currently only support 16-bit audio playback, as a final processing step DFX
I use it because I don't have super speakers and a seperate sound card - it enchances the sound and also gives mere more possibilites to change the sound for Gagliarchives. More so than the equlizer in Itunes - Winamp has one as well.
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