Since the SS community is kind of... moved on already... seemingly including Alessandro... I'm starting to feel less & less bad about recommending a product that I've been involved with for the last 3+ years now.
http://www.ceaudio.com/It's an amazing processor for any price. (actually, the digital tv hardware version runs $15,000, and is used on the SuperBowl, Olympics, Grammy's, Academy Awards, etc... about 75% of all major digital tv broadcast uses it) There's even a $29 consumer version. If that's not literally insanely cheap, then I haven't found a better example yet.