Onkyo, Pioneer, and Integra Get Dirac Live
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Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite and Integra AV receivers upgrade to Dirac Live. Read the announcement from Dirac here.
The Swedish software development company Dirac has announced that it will be supplying its patented room correction technologies and software, Dirac Live, to the latest AVRs from Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite and Integra.
Dirac Quote: “As the leader in room acoustics software for the high-end market, our award-winning room correction system is now, for the first time, available in mass-market receivers.”
Onkyo Quote: “DIRAC Live Room Correction: Built-in, state-of-the-art digital room correcting technology improves overall audio performance. Dirac Live automatically calibrates sound in your room using our smartphone app and included microphone or the Dirac Live desktop or laptop application and a 3rd party USB mic”
Dirac has been developing digital signal processing techniques to improve the sound performance of audio products in a range of different listening environments for over a decade since its formation by students at Uppsala University. Since then, the room correction technology has been integrated into everything from AVR’s to cars.
Dirac Live’s room correction feature analyses the speakers and room acoustics to optimize sound quality via patented impulse response technology. Dirac claims that it creates a more balanced sound, enhanced clarity, improved intelligibility of vocals and music, and more accurate imaging. Everything you would want from your stereo or home theater system.
One of the first receivers announced to receive the highly regarded room correction software is the THX certified Onkyo TX-NR7100 that also supports 8K HDMI 2.1 on all rear inputs and outputs.
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Dirac Live will also be available on the Onkyo TZ-RZ50; Pioneer Elite VSX-LX305 and VSX-LX505; and the Integra DRX-5.4 and DRX-3.4.
Image Credit: Pioneer
Image Credit: Integra
This deployment of Dirac Live to the mass market is obviously great news for Dirac as together these four well respected brands cover a huge volume of the AVR market.
See the Onkyo, Pioneer and Integra web sites for more detailed information.
Visit the DIRAC web site store to purchase the DIRAC live update.
Read more about Dirac Live here.
After all the insolvency drama surrounding the parent company Onkyo, the fact the rticle mentions Pioneer as a brand at all is really encouraging news indeed.
It gives me hope the Pioneer brand is not going to disappear from the AV market as yet. (big fan of the brand)
Although every home page of Pioneer home audio-video shows no product currently listed (https://www.pioneeraudio.com.au/collections/cd-players)
As far as I know, the production halted due to the perfect storm Onkyo- Pioneer encountered (the insolvency, Covid, shortage of semiconductors dueto the fire at the Japanese plant)
Hopefully, we start seeing the current and new line of products slowly reappearing online sometime next year (at least that’s what the rumor has it)
Personally, I would like to see Pioneer embrace the AURO 3D format.