DFX Audio Enhancer

DFX

DFX 8 logo with DFX 8 interface.
Developer(s)	FXsound.com (subsidiary)
Stable release	9.304
Operating system	Windows
Type	Audio Enhancement Plug-In
Website	DFX Audio Enhancer

DFX Audio Enhancer is a plug-in for multiple audio players, created by Power Technology. It is designed to enhance the sound of an audio file. Currently, DFX supports iTunes through iDFX, RealPlayer, Winamp, MusicMatch Jukebox, Windows Media Player, DivX Player, J.River Media Center and Yahoo! Music Jukebox. Support for Sonique was dropped after version 7.3.

Features

DFX offers the ability to apply 5 different effects to enhance the sound of an audio file. These effects include:

• 3D Surround Sound – Gives the effect of 3D surround while using only 2 speakers.
• Fidelity – Enhances clarity.
• Dynamic Boost – Amplifies sound and reduces distortion.
• Hyper Bass – Amplifies bass.
• Ambience – Adds depth.

The standard DFX plug-in includes presets, both built-in and custom, optimization for different outputs (headphones or speakers), 2 music processing modes, 1 speech mode and a spectrum analyzer.

The appearance of the software is fully customizable, using skins. Skins can be downloaded from the DFX website, or created in a standard image editor – modifying its form requires editing a text file (Freeform skinning).

The free version does not allow full use of the enhancements for modifying sound.

The newly released version 9 fully supports Windows Vista 64-bit.

However, one of the advertised "new features" in DFX 9 Plus is in fact not in the product versions for RealPlayer and Musicmatch Jukebox. The feature missing is "Automatic Preset Selection".

External links

• Official Site
• Practical PC Review