MaxxPlayer for Windows

User Reviews

• Great sound with minimum tweaking. Straightforward.

  DawnerIT1/12/2012

  Pros

  Easy to setup and operate. Intergrates well with Windows Media Player. Maxxbass is a welcome technology that actually works on 'normal' speakers. If you use high end 2.1 or 5.1 speaker systems, experimenting with LFE setting and disabling all other DSPs will do wonders. Well written (for novices and lazybones) quickguides gets you running in no time. Few parameters to tweak minimize room for errors and over zealous adjustments. Price is right.

  Cons

  DEP on some XP systems is a bother. Nag screens popup frequently but given that its a resonably priced product, you can live with it.Unable to run other DSPs you may like, unless you wanna distort its output.

  Summary

  Professional results made available for the home user. Revolutionary technology at a good price. Get it!

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• Waves is THE audio enhancement company

  szillmer10/16/2009

  Pros

  Simple interface, provides increased legibility and quality on crappy little laptop speakers. Lots of bang for the buck, from the company that produces the plugins used in professional studios.

  Cons

  Hassle getting to the product review page.

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• Much better than the Bass effects in Media Player!

  forestgump00711/9/2008

  Pros

  Overall I would say that this plugin was worth the mere $9.00 that I had to pay. The bass effects work especially well on music that was recorded in the 80s - 90s and earlier. It really FATTENS up the sound and gives greater dynamic range...

  Cons

  You need to make sure that the plugin is actually activated in the media player tools menu, because if you don't (even though the plugin LOOKS like its active it is not).

  Summary

  It greatly enhances the bottom end... PERIOD!!!

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• Ramarkable sound improvement

  robhdean10/27/2008

  Pros

  Maxx sound processing is really remarkable, MaxxBass in particular. It's not a simple boost, it does clever maths which fools your ears into hearing frequencies which small speakers simply can't effectively emit.

  Cons

  I wish I could patch this into my entire PC sound output rather than just into Windows Media Player.

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• It WORKS!. Big Speakers / Small Speakers

  aaronedw7710/21/2008

  Pros

  I started using this on my laptop and was VERY happy with the results. I was DJing with my laptop and took a break loading up WMP playlist. Maxx was on, and WOW!. I was DJing with a 120W X 2 Vacuum Tube Amp pushing 4 JBL 15" Pa drivers. With Maxx the system sounded like I just added a set of 18"s and 1000 Watts more. It was AMAZING

  Cons

  Only works on WMP :-(

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• It is absolutely outstanding. Ive heard sounds in movies Ive never heard before.

  TULOA9/27/2008

  Pros

  I like everything. I like the way it makes everything sound better. I have heard a big difference in the sound quality with this software.

  Cons

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• AWESOME bass (effect) for small speakers!

  bargz19/24/2008

  Pros

  I disagree with the Editorial review: this product's best feature is MaxxBass; it uses an (interesting if you enjoy audio theory) algorithm to "fake" our ears into hearing bass tones that small speakers cannot reproduce. I found this product because I was reading the Wikipedia article on "Missing fundamentals" (audio) and found a link to the patent. The authors of this plug-in also have a studio-, home-, and car-audio hardware box that does the same thing as this plug-in. This plug-in works so great that I'm really interested in the car-audio piece -- it's only $100. I suggest anyone interested read up on the technology -- it's really, really cool. This is not a vanilla "bass boost" equalizer or mixer that simply increases low frequencies. You'll be amazed at the difference coming out of cheap computer speakers when you switch it on and off.

  Cons

  1) Windows XP (SP3) kept closing Windows Media Player 11 with the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) warning. The only way I can get the plug-in to work (and it does work without crashing) is to disable DEP for Windows Media Player. I don't like that; it means the plug-in authors are coding and/or compiling incorrectly, and I don't like having to open up my system in order for their software to operate. <p> <p>2) The pop-up "nag-ware" dialog is really irritating if you don't register the plug-in: if you close it then it opens back up within 5 minutes. If it wasn't such an effective plug-in then I wouldn't have purchased it (only $9) and I'd have to disable it soon because that pop-up window is REALLY annoying. <p> <p>3) Minor: there are only 3 crossover frequency selections: "Hi-Fi", "Multimedia" and "Notebook." I'd like to be able to enter my own number. I assume the authors implemented the selection this way for "uneducated" people who don't understand the terms "crossover" and "frequency" and prefer big, shiny buttons.

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• works

  mld6^8/19/2008

  Pros

  it does make the sound better.

  Cons

  price

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• Enhancement in sound is above par, great for streaming music...

  jdmooney13/3/2008

  Pros

  Great for streaming music while I work on my computer; <p>Seems to make my 2.1 system come alive without spending more money for more speakers; <p>set it and forget it simplicity.

  Cons

  None so far.

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• awesomely improves the bass response of the sound played through any audio devic

  aaarya_12/19/2008

  Pros

  ease of use, nice processing and perfetly does the work it is created for. really liked the way it improves the bass response

  Cons

  nothing really. the user interface could be improved and updated a bit

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