DIRAC LIVE ACTIVE ROOM TREATMENT IS DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE BOOMY BASS IN HOME CINEMA ROOMS

The latest Dirac Live feature processes home theatre audio as a unified system, not individual speakers, and is designed to eliminate boomy bass and deliver cleaner, tighter audio experiences in any room.

Swedish digital audio brand Dirac has announced the debut of Dirac Live Active Room Treatment, the latest in its family of Dirac Live features designed to address bass resonance and room decay time. Dirac Live Active Room Treatment will debut in all StormAudio AVRs through a Spring 2023 firmware update.

DIRAC LIVE ACTIVE ROOM TREATMENT

Dirac Live Active Room Treatment makes use of 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, with decay times reduced digitally and automatically.

ROOM REFLECTIONS

Managing bass response and room reflections has traditionally required physical sound dampeners to be installed on the walls or other areas. In contrast, Dirac Live Active Room Treatment works much like the 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 applying advanced spatial optimization to the entire system based on the needs of each unique room.

Home cinema system with Dirac Live Active Room Treatment off

BASS BOOM

In many listening spaces, like home entertainment rooms, it can take a long time for bass to decay, or stop bouncing around the room, resulting in ringing or booming. Dirac Live Active Room Treatment is designed to automatically evaluate and adjust the bass characteristics of the entire system, leveraging the strengths of each speaker to make up for any shortcomings in other speakers. This effectively turns passive speakers into active support units, strengthening the overall system.

Dirac Live Active Room Treatment complements the company’s existing Dirac Live features, Dirac Live Room Correction and Dirac Live Bass Control. 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, says Dirac.

Home Cinema system with Dirac Live Active Room Treatment on

STORMAUDIO

Dirac Live Active Room Treatment will be included, at no additional fee, in all StormAudio Processors and AVRs ordered from January 1st 2023 onward and will be made available through a firmware update in Spring 2023. StormAudio products ordered before January 1st will be upgradeable with Dirac Live Active Room Treatment after the Spring 2023 firmware update and by purchasing a license from Dirac’s online store at $299.

“We have been a close Dirac partner since 2017 and have always been a pioneer in implementing their cutting-edge technologies successfully,” explained Olivier Thumerel, StormAudio’s CEO. “We were the first to introduce the Dirac Live Bass Control in 2020 and are now proud to be leading again with the release of Dirac Live Active Room Treatment. Our users have always praised the performance and results of calibrating with Dirac tools on our platform, and now we are able to raise it to the next level again in partnership with Dirac.”

DIRAC LIVE ACTIVE ROOM TREATMENT AT CES 2023

Dirac will be demonstrating the Dirac Live Active Room Treatment feature at CES 2023 in its private suite at the Venetian Hotel.

HiFi Pig Says: A clever way of using the loudspeakers in multi-speaker systems to actively counteract bass boom and room reflections.