{"id":153681,"date":"2023-01-08T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=153681"},"modified":"2023-01-08T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:37:27","slug":"dirac-live-active-room-treatment-new-functionality-of-the-sound-calibration-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/technology\/dirac-live-active-room-treatment-new-functionality-of-the-sound-calibration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirac Live Active Room Treatment: New functionality of the sound calibration system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dirac\u00a0, known for its audio calibration solutions for specific listening room acoustics, announced at\u00a0<i>CES 2023<\/i>\u00a0in Las Vegas a new\u00a0<b>Dirac\u00a0<\/b><b>Live\u00a0<\/b><b>Active\u00a0<\/b><b>Room <\/b><b>Treatment feature in its\u00a0<\/b><b>auto<\/b>\u00a0-calibration system .\u00a0This function treats the home theater surround system as a whole, not as separate speakers.\u00a0Based on this approach, Dirac Live Active Room Treatment performs spatial sound optimization when all speakers interact with each other to reduce bass decay time and, as a result, get rid of hum and amorphous sound in the low-frequency region.<i><\/i><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/73_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far, the most effective way to reduce bass decay time has been to install physical noise absorbers (bass traps) in the corners of the listening room.\u00a0Dirac claims Dirac Live Active Room Treatment eliminates this need.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/74_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Dirac Live Active Room Treatment feature works with any audio system that has more than one channel.\u00a0Moreover, the more channels in the surround system, the more effective the spatial optimization will be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/75_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>According to Dirac, the new functionality will appear in Storm\u00a0<\/b><b>Audio<\/b>\u00a0&#8216;s AV receivers and processors in the spring\u00a0.\u00a0For components purchased after January 1, 2023, these features will be added after a system firmware update at no charge.\u00a0Previously purchased receivers and processors will require the purchase of a\u00a0<b>Dirac Live Active Room\u00a0<\/b><b>Treatment<\/b>\u00a0license , which will cost $\u00a0<b>299<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirac\u00a0, known for its audio calibration solutions for specific listening room acoustics, announced at\u00a0CES 2023\u00a0in Las Vegas a new\u00a0Dirac\u00a0Live\u00a0Active\u00a0Room Treatment feature in its\u00a0auto\u00a0-calibration system .\u00a0This function treats the home theater surround system as a whole, not as separate speakers.\u00a0Based on this approach, Dirac Live Active Room Treatment performs spatial sound optimization when all speakers interact [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/technology\/dirac-live-active-room-treatment-new-functionality-of-the-sound-calibration-system\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":153682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-153681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}