Repeating my listening, I heard, essentially, no change at all: The brighter, or perhaps clearer, or more sharply focused sound and the deeper or stronger ambience elements remained. Enough so that I went back to Dirac Live on the laptop and jiggered my target curves for all five channels, knocking everything down an additional 1.5 to 2.5 dB or so, from 1,500 Hz to 15 kilohertz. But here and throughout, my impression of enhanced brightness that wasn’t really brighter remained, and it grew even stronger when invoking Dirac over multichannel music via Dolby PLII/Music. I spent an hour or more with my treasured copy of The Sheffield Drum Record (on CD), where Dirac clearly moved the kit into a more convincing and subtly more lively acoustic space-and this is a fairly tight studio recording.
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One unexpected but subtly dramatic Dirac effect was one I simply stumbled across: On an ordinary Red Sox broadcast, the background crowd noise, which normally sounds more like a distant waterfall, became subtly more granular and lifelike, letting me more easily pick out the occasional distinct voice from the general ballpark buzz. 1 (an HDtracks download) enjoyed a noticeably tighter soundstage-which also seemed slightly deeper, and at the same time a bit narrower, or at any rate not wider in proportion. For example, a rich but fairly diffuse rendering of Elgar’s Symphony No. Dirac shifted the Krall tune’s finger-snaps to dead center, from slightly left (where they appeared in non-Dirac playback), and made a perceptible sharpening of image location on a wide variety of recordings.
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Such as plucked acoustic guitar, harpsichord, and hi-hat ticks, transient leading-edges seemed highlighted-more prominent and snappy while not actually louder, as if richer in top-octave harmonic content, despite the fact that Dirac rolled off the top two octaves by a decibel or more. The finger-snaps that open Diana Krall’s “My Love Is” clearly demonstrated both a more percussive snap and a richer, longer-seeming reverb tail. With Dirac engaged, reverberations sounded, not louder, but deeper, smoother, or shall I say, creamier, and perhaps even very slightly longer. However, there was certainly more going on than that.
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So even casual listening reveals tighter bass octaves, along with the tonal-balance corollary of better-defined and seemingly more prominent midrange and treble. Why was this unsurprising? Because Dirac, like Audyssey and most every other system I’ve tried, corrects the room-effect buildup of 50-to-120-Hz energy I well know to occur in my room, as it will in most others.
#EMOTIVA DIRAC LIVE FULL#
Please note that both Dirac LE and Dirac Full licenses are not transferrable, and that Dirac Full sales are final.My initial reaction, unsurprisingly, was that the sound was brighter. Create custom target curves, adjust frequency ranges for correction, create and rearrange speaker groups-you have ultimate room-correction power with Dirac Full. Yes! Go beyond the capabilities of the included Dirac LE with Dirac Full. With a true balanced audiophile signal path, high-performance HDMI video switching that supports up to 4k/60Hz, and Dirac Live for Emotiva™ room correction, this made-in-the-USA masterpiece offers audio performance and sound quality that competes with the best analog preamps, combined with video performance and features that rival home theater preamp/processors costing up to ten times as much." "The XMC-1 redefines everything you know about affordable home theater. Of course I could just buy a DEQX, but even used ones are kind of expensive. However I would like to know how far it could take you in comparison, maybe 80-90% or less?Īlso can you do something like outside speaker correction with the Dirac Live Full? This option would seem to solve the problem of using DSP room correction with home theatre/multi channel audio?
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For those of us who are less technically inclined, I know it would be more limited in scope than what is possible with FIR filters and a custom MiniDSP setup. I have been reading about MiniDSP and Dirac Live on another board, and this pre/pro made me think about it as an option for room correction.