Dirac Live Active Room Treatment – Coming Soon
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Just announced at CES 2023 the Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac continues to push the boundaries of sound with the introduction of Dirac Live Active Room Treatment. This latest feature processes home theater audio as a unified system, not individual speakers, to eliminate boomy bass and deliver cleaner, tighter audio experiences in any room.
Available initially for StormAudio AVRs as a firmware update in Spring 2023, Dirac Live Active Room Treatment is designed to address bass resonance and room decay time to produce a cleaner and tighter bass experience. This new processing technique moves away from traditional room correction to actually reduce bass decay times digitally, without needing bass traps or thick layers of wall absorption.
This new approach leverages Dirac’s expertise in MIMO mixed-phase impulse response correction technology to enable spatial optimization, whereby all speakers in a sound system cooperate with each other to accomplish what passive acoustic treatments struggle to achieve. With decay times reduced digitally and automatically, listeners experience clear sound devoid of boomy, smeared bass.
Until now, managing bass response and room reflections required physical sound dampeners to be installed on the walls or other areas. In contrast, Dirac Live Active Room Treatment works much like the popular Active Noise Cancellation technology, using the system’s own speakers to actively cancel out unwanted wavelengths originating from other speakers. This is achieved by measuring the entire setup as a unified system, instead of targeting each speaker individually, and then applying advanced spatial optimization to the entire system based on the needs of each unique room.
Dirac Live Active Room Treatment complements the company’s existing Dirac Live features – Dirac Live Room Correction and Dirac Live Bass Control – to dramatically improve sound performance in any listening area. It can be used in any system with more than one speaker, with progressive performance enhancements based on the total speakers in the system. The more speakers a system has, the greater the effect of the spatial optimization.
StormAudio will be the first to include this new technology and it will be included free of charge in all their Processors and AVRs ordered from January 1st 2023 onward. StormAudio products ordered before January 1st 2023 will be upgradeable after the Spring 2023 firmware release by purchasing a license from Dirac’s online store for $299.
See here for the January 5th 2023 DIRAC news release.
For more information on Live Active Room Treatment see here.
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