In a transfer to handle rising shopper demand for high-quality audio in mainstream house theater techniques, Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac has introduced a major enlargement of its ongoing collaboration with Premium Audio Firm to now incorporate the corporate’s Dirac Stay Bass Management resolution into PAC’s Onkyo, Pioneer, Elite, and Integra AVR items.
Particularly, Dirac Stay Bass Management is now built-in into the Integra DRX-8.4; the Elite VSX-LX805, Pioneer VSA-LX805; and the Onkyo TX-RZ70 — all of which at the moment are obtainable.
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Dirac Stay Bass Management, a part of the Dirac Stay household of room acoustic options, is designed to assist customers handle their subwoofers. The function aggregates measurement and placement knowledge from every subwoofer to find out how a system’s bass is distributed all through the room. It then identifies inconsistencies within the low-frequency response and compensates to distribute bass evenly all through the room.
The function additionally corrects for the time alignment of subwoofers with the primary speaker pair, assuring that your entire spectrum of audio is precisely reproduced. All of this processing permits the subwoofers to be positioned wherever within the room — wherever most aesthetically pleasing — with out sacrificing efficiency for design, or vice versa.
The collaboration between Dirac and Premium Audio Firm’s manufacturers and merchandise enhances each firms’ house theater capabilities, providing their clients premium, high-quality audio experiences at a spread of worth factors.
“Mainstream shoppers are demanding premium audio greater than ever earlier than, and correct and compelling low-frequency response has solely grow to be much more crucial in having fun with the complete spectrum of sound,” mentioned Fredric Tapper, Dirac’s VP of house and professional audio. “On the identical time, high-quality audio now have to be accessible from the skilled integration and audiophile degree to the broader shopper markets.”
Dirac Stay Bass Management delivers easy and evenly distributed bass, an nearly inconceivable problem to perform by handbook tuning. It provides key advantages, together with smoother low-frequency transition on the crossover level between subwoofers and audio system; constant low-frequency response all through the listening space; bass administration on a number of subwoofers; and versatile subwoofer placement
“The mixing of Dirac Stay Bass Management, together with availability of the Dirac Stay Room Correction, places professional-level acoustical room management inside attain of all listeners,” Tapper added. “In collaboration with 4 of the trade’s most iconic manufacturers, Dirac is proving that the world’s greatest room acoustics software program is not only for audiophiles — it’s for everybody.”
Dirac Stay Bass Management is a part of the Dirac Stay household of audio processing, which additionally contains the Dirac Stay Room Correction (additionally included within the Onkyo, Pioneer, Elite, and Integra AVR items.) The answer’s patented impulse response correction maximizes the efficiency of a sound system — quick and simple. Its advantages embody improved localization of sound sources, improved readability and intelligibility in music and speech, and a deeper and tighter low-frequency response freed from resonances all through your entire listening space.
The 2-year-long integration of Dirac Stay with PAC’s AVR manufacturers, together with the latest inclusion of Dirac Stay Bass Management, brings that room management functionality to a a lot bigger market, giving mid-priced AVRs a house theater audio expertise beforehand solely obtainable via higher-priced techniques.
“Premium Audio Firm’s Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite, and Integra manufacturers have constructed a spectacular popularity by making high-end audio high quality obtainable to a mass market at inexpensive costs for many years,” mentioned Rob Standley, president of expertise and product for Premium Audio Firm. “Our persevering with cooperative relationship with Dirac, which started with Dirac Stay Room Correction and now has grown to additionally embody Dirac Stay Bass Management, helps lengthen all of our manufacturers and expertise to wider vary of shoppers, who profit from improved audio high quality, and has created the inspiration for much more innovation and collaboration sooner or later.”
Dirac Stay Bass Management is on the market to end-users for an add-on payment of $349 (for the single-subwoofer model) and $499 (for the multi-subwoofer model). It comes with every unit for no further cost.
