There's some really cool waves plugin and they hold there forth with a particular crowd, I think not using ANY of there plugins might be hard. That been said; Fab Filter is where it's at! There stuff in great sounding, effective, ergonomic and easy to use plus it's not "trying to hardware," they're a digital beast and they know it. Hope they get bigger and bigger, them and slate are probably my favorite audio software companies by a long shot.
PS: I wouldn't put my hands on any eq that wasn't FabQ if I was given all options, EQuality isin't half as intuitive lol
I feel like a paid review or something, shoot me already!