Voxengo Elephant
Quite simply, Elephant 3 is the best limiter I have ever heard - vastly outperforming my current one in terms of transparency (I'd better not say which one it is - but it costs a lot more than Elephant!)
It has so many excellent features which make it very easy to tailor the perfect sound for my masters. And yet, despite having so many variables, the clear layout, innovative metering graphs and incredibly well designed preset modes make it an absolute joy to use straight away.
The only downside is that now - I'm redoing the last CD I mastered. Not because my client was unhappy, but because I know it will sound SO much better with an Elephant sat on it. Thanks very much to Aleksey and his team for this marvelous piece of software.
It's pretty simple why Voxengo plugins are so good - Alexsey has a better ear compared to other developers.
His plugins sound so 'musical'. I've used many other plugins that technically perform their designed function, yet somehow just don't sound good.
I now have a whole set of expensive plugins that are just taking up drive space. They simply don't sound as good as thier Voxengo counterparts.