DFX ®

Menu Path: View/Sound Enhancement

DFX, available as an additional plug-in, is designed to dramatically enhance the listening experience for users of Internet audio formats such as MP3, and MUSICMATCH Radio.

To install DFX

• Open the menu View/Sound Enhancement and choose Select

• From the Select DSP screen, click Get New, a browser window will open allowing you to download the plug-in. (Internet connection required).

• Go to the DSP plug-in page and select DFX. Click the link.

• The plug-in will install for you automatically.

• Reboot your computer.

To use DFX

• Open the menu View/Sound Enhancement, choose Select, click on DFX in the window, then click OK.

• The DFX plug in is now available to use. To view it, go to the menu View/Sound Enhancement then choose Show UI. The DFX interface will open in active mode.

If a DFX slider is active, the indicator to the left will be green

Move each slider to the level that fits your listening preferences. Below are explanations for each sliders purpose.

To close DFX

Go to the menu View/Sound Enhancement and uncheck the Show UI and Enable buttons.

Controls:

Fidelity: Controls the amount of high frequency harmonics that are regenerated and placed in the audio. Using this control to add Fidelity to the audio eliminates the "muffled" sound that is an artifact of the data compression algorithms used in Internet audio formats.

Ambience: Controls the amount of listening room ambience added to the audio, compensating for closely located speakers, poor listening environments and sonic losses due to the data compression methods used with Internet audio formats.

3D Surround: Controls the amount of enhanced 3D stereo depth which is added to the audio, compensating for monitoring limitations and sonic losses due to data compression.

Dynamic Boost: Controls the amount of additional loudness to be added to the audio. Using this control to make your final listening level adjustment will allow much higher listening levels while minimizing distortion levels, particularly when using Internet audio systems.

HyperBass: Controls the amount of additional low frequency compensation for multimedia speaker systems to add deep, rich bass sound. Greatly improves the bass performance of any sound system.

Buttons:

Presets: Allows the selection of factory and user presets. Select the preset best suited for your program material.

Save: Lets you save the current effects settings as a preset, either as a new preset or as a modified version of the current preset. This button is disabled in the demo version.

Bypass: Sends the input signal directly to the output, bypassing the DFX processing. When Bypass is active, the button will be red