I got ambio.one, which processes 2-channel stereo to be presented on closely-spaced speaker pairs. This is a spatial image processor that enhances ambiance.

I also installed Omnisone from Toneboosters. My preference is ‘Presence’, which makes the sound quality very immediate and punchy. The effect is heard immediately on switching. Toned provides a choice of gentle Loudness, Stereo Wide, Mid Channel Warmth, Bright Tilt, Low Tilt, and Presence. Such freely available plug-ins improve listening experience more than upgrading to more expensive components. They are easy to download and install into Media Center.įor example, Toned is a specialized tone shaping plugin with analog modeling. Toned is a superb tone control that can correct most poor recordings with the turn of a few knobs.

Many are free-of-charge, and a few are suitable for audiophile use. There are a lot of Virtual Studio Technology (VST) audio Effect DSP plug-ins available. These are part of the onboard DSP Studio in Media Center. I’ve usually had ‘Living Room’ acoustic environment simulation and subtle surround field, as well as speaker distance / signal phasing optimisation, running. I've tried JRiver in the past, and while it's also very flexible, I think it's more aimed at casual users, albeit still being a niche player.Following my brief and ultimately frustrating encounter with Roon, and subsequent return to JRiver Media Center 25, I’ve been investigating some of it’s features that Roon doesn’t have, especially DSP (digital signal processing). If you like to tinker or just customize things to your liking fb2k is for you. Also fb2k was one of the first to support Replaygain. While I do tagging with beets nowadays, the fb2k tag editor is still the best for me. If you just listen to music, I don't think it matters much, but I also convert a large amount of files between formats, I like to resample using specific plugins, I apply custom dither etc. For me, foobar2000 does everything I need. It broke here and there with new plugin versions, but I always managed to fix the source code so that it continued to run. I've been using the Spotifoo skin for years now. Actually, 'Stop after current' in the playback menu was my feature request.

I remember when Peter quit Winamp and developed foobar and I was in the IRC channel where the first versions were released. I have used foobar2000 since it was v0.1 or whatever was the first.

Jriver equalizer plugin