“BMW were one of the first car manufacturers to realise that it was not just about how their car engines performed, it was about the whole experience, and high-quality audio can add a huge amount of satisfaction to the overall experience of owning a vehicle. At the time, any kind of digital signal processing tended to be seen as a bad thing within the Hi-Fi and AV markets, but in the car market they were less conservative and were open to what we had to offer. He explains, “Dirac Live was our first product, but it was not the home cinema market that we got our first contract in, it was the automotive sector as we signed a deal with BMW in 2004 to include our technology in the company’s in-car audio systems. Mathias recalls that the company’s first contract came from a surprising source. The name of the company was inspired by the British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, some of whose work lies at the heart of what Dirac delivers today. So, in 2001, four PHD students and two professors began Dirac proper, combining the knowledge in digital signal processing that they had gained from years of study with a passion to improve music and audio for everyone.” “Right from the start we were keen that our technology should be able to help everyone, no matter what type of equipment they were using or what environment they were in. Our first experiments were with quite low-quality speakers, but we were delighted by how much we could improve sound even when the equipment was not of the best quality. Mathias explains, “The group that went on to found Dirac all did their masters on digital techniques to improve sound in the Signals and Systems Group at Uppsala University in Sweden. The idea was to use digital technology to improve the sound of speakers without having to alter them physically. The Dirac Live platform in particular has been finding friends as part of room correction and bass enhancement approaches carried within products by companies such as ARCAM, AudioControl, Lexicon, miniDSP, NAD and StormAudio, Datasat, Bryston, Emotiva, Focal, Lexicon (Harman), quadral, Monoprice, Theta Digital and Wisdom. Mathias Johansson, co-founder and CEO of Dirac, audio improvement pioneer, to find out how this innovative company got started and what it can offer now and in the future.ĭirac Live has built its reputation by offering a range of audio enhancement technologies to be found in the automotive, portables/headphone markets and home cinema sectors. I think this amp might be embarrassingly close to the M33.EI spoke with Dr. I think the difference between the Purifi and nCore modules is very essentially nil in their reference implementations the NC400 - which this may be a variant of and the Purifi both score 105dB SINAD according to ASR and NAD has good experience of both modules - and get custom OEM versions made specially for them from both manufacturers.
I am still going to give the 1120 a trial, but I'll be very happy to fall back to one of these if it does turn out that I want more power. With my miniDSP it's certainly the bass frequencies that need sorting more than the top where I'm mostly happy to let the speakers do their own thing. Honestly though it's really the up to 200Hz that counts the most.
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Though it's likely the reduced licence that only goes up to 200Hz with upgrade available for around £100. The Dirac Live function lets users to measure their room’s acoustics using a supplied microphone and intuitive app, and then upload correction curves to the MDC2 BluOS-D. No it's got Dirac on board - last paragraph of the "Future Perfect" section.