bitflipper
Sound Forge is a great tool to have for lots of reasons, but mastering would be low on that list. If that's your primary motivation, get Ozone instead and do your mastering within SONAR. And maybe just buy the CD Architect component for burning CDs.

I'm with bitflipper, I'd rather spend money on really good mastering plugins and do it in Sonar than spend the money on SF.
I do own SF and it does come in handy for some things but not Mastering, for that I go with sonar and "Mastering grade" plugins (waves) not the sonar plugs.
I do like CD Architect also!

I use Adobe Audition 3, which suits me as I used version 1.5 and 1. I think it used to be Cool Edit. It suits my ears

I love Sound Forge, but I can't say I'm a fan of the way they upgrade.  IMHO it is not worth the upgrade for SF10 users but is still a damn good editor for those who don't already own a previous version.  The lack of 64-bit bothers me but but is more nuisance than deal breaker.  I use audition as well, but I usually go back to SF for my detailed editing.  As mentioned by bitflipper, I would not buy it just for mastering since the best mastering tools(the ozone mastering suite) can be purchased separately and used within other programs.  It would be like buying a car strictly because you liked the stereo it came with.

dubdisciple
It would be like buying a car strictly because you liked the stereo it came with.

"You don't need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt -- you need a curve ball." - Bull Durham
 
 
just need the right tool for the job you need done.

I'm still on SF8 and see no need to upgrade vs the pricing model. It's also easy to create an audio editor project template in X2 and use that instead. IMO, I lose the easy zooming and navigation SF offers when I do that, but not much else.

lawp
$500 is expensive relative to the market, it demeans no-one

Yeah- it's expensive to just do some basic audio editing. SoundForge and Wavelab (and Audition) have become like mini DAWs - but we already use SONAR and just want to break out to use th e audio editing functions.


I'll stick with Audition 3 as long as it runs on whatever OS I'm using (Win 8 64 bit at the moment)

AA3 gets daily use here, too. Always been rock-solid and has every feature I need in an audio editor for detail editing, noise removal, amplitude and spectral analyses, remedial EQ, format conversion and MP3 encoding.
 
Too bad you can't buy it anymore.