Sound enhancing programs

That depends on what you consider as sounding better. Turning up the volume? People around you may consider silence as sounding better!

If you want to change the sound on playback, you can change the tone with the equalizer that came with your sound card or onboard audio.

If you want to permanently edit your audio files to increase bass, treble, reduce hiss, compress etc you will need an audio application that can do it. If all your audio is in mp3 format there's a rub. Editing any compressed format reduces quality a small amount so you need to get a significant improvement in whatever parameter you consider as "better".

Maybe comment on the sort of thing you are trying to do.

Starman*
 
This is hard... Hmm...take an image for example, say an avitar. Say you want to blow it up to be your background. There is NO WAY you can take an 80x80 image and convert it to anything close screen resolutions without it being extreamly fuzzy. Now, you could do some minor tweaks and such, but it'll never be really "good"

Same goes for music. There are filters and tweaks that can make it sound a little better, but there's no way you could make some low quality download the same as a high quality CD rip...

Audacity(basically a free clone of Soundforge) has some decent tweaks...
 
Sound Blaster's X-Fi cards claim to 'super-rip' music cd's into better quality, by doing some clever equalizing (see here). In reality you'll see some improvement, but I think that's more about tricking the ear than actually improving the quality in technical terms.

The_Other_One's correct in the analogy of blowing up an avatar (with the exception of raster to vector conversion software :P). There's only so much you can do with the raw material.
 
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