Harman is the most important player in terms of automotive audio and systems, with partnerships around brand names such as Bowers & Wilkins and Bang & Olufsen. Because Dirac has a strategic partnership with Harman, we suspect that this list will soon be much longer. It is used for example by car manufacturers such as Bentley (together with Naim), BMW (in the M series), Volvo and Rolls-Royce.
ARCAM AND DIRAC LIVE SOFTWARE
It is certainly not the only solution to make sound sound good in your room.įor the sake of completeness, we have to mention that the Dirac software exists in yet other forms. A typical living room or home theater almost always needs some software help.ĭirac is therefore a competitor for the calibration software found on AV receivers from Denon and Marantz (Audyssey), Yamaha (YPAO), Onkyo and Pioneer ( AccuEQ), Sony (DCAC), and others, and stereo devices such as the Micromega M-One M150 (MARS) or the Lyngdorf TDAI-3400 (RoomPerfect). Perhaps it is a dedicated cinema space that was designed by an expert. A room without problems and speakers that are really perfectly set up, you rarely encounter. The first question is, of course, what is Dirac correct? Very simply, Dirac software is that you use the acoustic representation in a room so that your music and film sound better. A module has already been announced: Live Bass Management. The software is so completely functional and useful for the end user. The module approach sounds special, but you do not need those extra parts to get started with Dirac Live. That is nice, but at least as important is that Dirac now gets a new architecture so that in the future it can easily be expanded and improved with new modules that do something specific. What is immediately noticeable is that the interface is fully adapted.
ARCAM AND DIRAC LIVE UPDATE
Why do we now dedicate a longer piece to Dirac again? Because the software now has a substantial update to Dirac Live 2. Both in the form of a background piece about what Dirac is and in the margin of tests of AV receivers as the Arcam AVR-550 and NAD T 758 v3. We have already written about this software of Swedish origin that is built into more and more audio products but that can also run separately on a PC. In this article we look at the new version of Dirac, Dirac Live 2, for home use, Dirac Live 2.x.
It is of course also usable with existing Dirac partners, such as miniDSP and Storm Audio. Arcam, NAD and Rotel, among others, recently embrace the new Dirac software, Dirac Live 2. That’s good, because at the same time more surround and stereo devices with Dirac appear on board. A thoroughly reworked version now makes the software more accessible to a larger audience. Dirac was already one of the best room correction solutions available.
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