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The SRS Audio Sandbox is the audio enhancement software to render surround and stereo output for all sound on your PC. It features: sleek interface design with energized light pulses, surround.
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Generic Company Place Holder SRS HD Audio Lab

If you've used Windows Media Player, you're probably familiarwith SRS Labs. The company's WOW and TruBass technologies areincluded in WMP to enhance the audio experience. I use them a lotwith older material, and they're very addictive. SRS HD Audio Labtakes those technologies and adds more that you can use to enhanceyour audio with virtually player you choose to use.

Though the sound field expander WOW isn't specifically includedin SRS HD Audio Lab, the extremely similar 3D Space level ispresent. Its 3D Center Level adjunct also serves to move the focusof the sound to the back or to the front. TruBass is on hand todeepen sound, and a speaker control shifts bass tones upward inhertz to match the resonance of different sized smaller speakers.The Focus level is described as moving sound field up and down tomatch your ear level and SRS Definition had the effect ofclarifying the sound. There's also a limiter that lets you canclamp down overly loud sounds such as explosions in movies.

SRS HD Audio Lab includes presets for music, movies, and gamingas well as optimization presets for headphones, laptop speakers,and normal speaker setups. The latter includes separate settingsfor 2, 2.1, 5.1, and 7.1 speaker arrangements.

Ah, but how does SRS HD Audio Lab sound? Pretty darn good, andspatially, far better than the SRS FX in WMP. Older materialrecorded in stereo gains the most, but it will make anything soundbetter. Even old black-and-white movies benefit, although they'rerecorded in mono and won't gain much in the way of bass. Of course,you can also muck things up with so many controls, but the 'Resetconfigurations' option lets you can retreat to square one ifnecessary. For some odd reason, the install program couldn't startthe SRS service on an Acer Aspire One Windows 7 netbook; however,on a full-sized Acer 5920 laptop the difference was such that I'dactually listen to music and movies without headphones. You canactually feel the bass thumping when you touch the body of thenotebook.

The SRS HD Audio Labs interface is easy to use, if a bit...let's just say 'young' for my taste. I chose to disable theanimations and much prefer the look of the company's moreunderstated SRS AudioSandbox. Also, I found no way to auto-run the program at bootin its minimized state, just full-sized. Hopefully, SRS Labs willadd an option to start in the background quickly.

Despite its youthful look, there's nothing in the least juvenileabout what SRS HD Audio Labs does. If you want the best possibleaudio experience from your computer, it's well worth checking out.Hopefully, you'll have good luck with it on your hardware.