Thesedays I find that I listen to music more at my computer than anywhere else, even more than my iPod touch! So, it’s important for me to get the best sound that I can. Last November I bought some Altec Lansing VS2321 2.1 speakers and I’ve been more than happy with the results. Prior to buying those I had been using JBL Pro speakers with my Mac Mini.
This afternoon I was alerted to an audio enhancement plugin for iTunes by my friend Nik, when he mentioned it on Twitter. After a recommendation like that I could hardly wait to get over to the iWow website, where I downloaded the v2 demo. The difference is pretty astounding. I’ve been more than happy with the sound my set-up produces without any extra enhancement, but when you switch iWOW on then you really do know about it!
It took me approximately 3 minutes after hearing the difference in the demo, to head to the site to purchase it for $19.99. I captured a little video of me switching on and off iWOW so you can perhaps get an idea of the difference. Sadly it doesn’t come across well, so I’d recommend you download the demo, either for Mac or PC. Without the enhancement enabled you can hear mostly bass, but when you enable it the sound is full and rich - quite a remarkable difference that you will only be able to appreciate fully when trying it yourself. But, here’s my video clip anyway. When the music starts it’s without the plugin enabled, but you’ll see on the screen when I do switch it on








17 Feb 08
8:52 pm
My god! That’s amazing! Thanks go to you and Nik for this one.
17 Feb 08
9:23 pm
Sweet isn’t it? iTunes is going to get a good workout over the next few days as I listen to every track to savour this new enhanced sound, heehee.
19 Feb 08
10:33 pm
I used to HATE audio enhancers. Mainly cuz they sucked. But iWOW really shocked me. And I kinda wish they had a version for iPhone. The bass and general sound quality is just awesome, especially in version 2.0 which detects the genres (be sure to enable that!)
20 Feb 08
3:12 pm
This was the first audio enhancer I’ve used and it blew me away. I don’t think I could have walked away from it after hearing how my music sounded without it enabled. It got me
Yep, got the auto genre detection enabled. I have podcasts which are basically mix sessions, but they are automatically listed as Podcasts by iTunes which means iWOW then sets Podcast as it’s genre - and it doesn’t sound good as it’s more for speaking. So, had to go through and manually change them all to ‘Techno’ as it was more fitting.