Where can I find and use the Aimp's output plugins ?

[wealstarr]

Hello,
        I've installed MB because of it's customization options. I've noticed the sound quality is not as good as Aimp or Winamp in terms of depth, detail and smoothness. What can I do to improve it and match to the players I mention ? I've already tweaked the Equalizer and DSP.

Also, does the program has IRC existence ? searched for a channel on Freenode, no success

[phred]

Hello,
        I've installed MB because of it's customization options. I've noticed the sound quality is not as good as Aimp or Winamp in terms of depth, detail and smoothness. What can I do to improve it and match to the players I mention ? I've already tweaked the Equalizer and DSP.

I don't use any, but I seem to recall that WinAmp -output- plugins work with MB. Search the forum for details.

Also, does the program has IRC existence ? searched for a channel on Freenode, no success

No IRC. A Twitter feed exists for new version announcements only.

[redwing]

I've noticed the sound quality is not as good as Aimp or Winamp in terms of depth, detail and smoothness.

Never heard of such a claim. Are you sure you're not comparing apples and oranges? They all, without tweaking/enhancing, should sound pretty much the same.

Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?

No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples).

(http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ)

I've already tweaked the Equalizer and DSP.

Yeah, I guessed that's how you compared.

[wealstarr]

Thanks for the reaction guys

Yeah, not gonna use anything without tweaking so I guess that's where the difference is, though not complaining. Cheers! to the dev's for doing a wonderful job. Now the obvious question is how can I make it to sound better ? I tried VST plugins that I use to use with Audacity but they aren't showing in the Preferences->Plugins. VST plugin (mb_VST.dll) is installed okey and plugins are installed in the directory recommended by MB (C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vst Plugins), any ideas how can I configure them ?

[redwing]

Check DSP plugins list in EQ settings window.

[wealstarr]

Check DSP plugins list in EQ settings window.

Thanks redwing. Now It's got the sound quality to kill for though there's one issue, the clipping reduction plugin I'm using is taking up way too much resources (28% of the CPU and 200 Mb's of physical memory) it's working for now but I can't continue using it. Can anyone recommend me a plugin that takes less resources ? and preferably free

On another note, developers should take a note at the difference of the quality of sound VST plugin's have produced. Shouldn't this functionality/quality be native to the program? especially noise/distortion issue needs to be addressed with great priority in my opinion.