Yes when I tested the 31 band EQ with winamp I didn't see any real extra prcoessor load. And it seemed very stable and quality seemed very well just by listening to it.
Now, if you have an audiocard compatiple with the KXproject drivers, I tested the crossover function and it seemed to work pretty well, easy to adjust, but its going to be hard to use on a small screen. (Turbo you will probably be ok
) The problem lies in the time delay plugin for KX. The simple small delay uses too much of the resources because it uses 2400 samples ~ 50ms which only allows you to use 3 "small time delay" instances. I think at most 10ms is plenty. If the plugin dsp programmer gurus of kx can knock the sample size down to a fifth of that, then we are getting closer. Another downside to the ufx plugins for kx, is the crossover option is either 12 or 24dB and the lowest freq is 40Hz. I would like to see at least 6,12,18,24 and be able to go as low as 30Hz on the crossover.
Here's what I envison...
ASIO drivers-> ASIO compatible sound card-> Kx driver compatible sound card (Time delay,crossover)->Winamp->Winamp vst plugin->31 band vst plugin EQ
Has anyone tried the foobar player with the dsp plugins?
EDIT:
For those using the creative sound cards, I saw a winamp plugin that resamples BEFORE it gets to the soundcard so that it is more accurate than the hardware doing it. It sounds like a bandaid for the 44.1-48kHz resampling problem. Has anyone tried it? I guess its process intensive from a review.
Older resampling plugin
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=141806
New Resampling plugin
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=144826