There you can buy the 3 variants of the hardware/software product, each retailing at 799 USD. More Informationįor more information about the miniDSP Dirac Live Series packages, head over to miniDSP’s webpage.
However, I can’t wait to hear the results and compare.
#DIRAC LIVE HARDWARE PROFESSIONAL#
Professional studio use doesn’t feature in the marketing as heavily as I would like. The only concern – without, of course, hearing the product – is that this was designed for the audiophile market initially. The price point and dedicated hardware on offer here are really exciting. But I would encourage everyone to investigate these solutions. I could spend a lot of space here talking about the advantages calibrated monitoring has given me. I think this is a really exciting product and demonstrates how this market is growing. Analogue, digital and digital to analogue, named DDRC-22A, DDRC-22D and DDRC-22DA respectively. There are 3 hardware units available depending on what connectivity you require. That file is then loaded onto your hardware to ensure you hear a balanced sound from your monitors all the time.
#DIRAC LIVE HARDWARE SOFTWARE#
The Dirac software measures your room, creating a calibration file.
#DIRAC LIVE HARDWARE PC#
Both the microphone and the hardware unit connect to a PC or Mac via USB. The miniDSP Dirac Live solution comprises the Dirac measurement and calibration software with miniDSP’s hardware unit and measurement microphone. Apparently something new is coming from them soon as well, but this is the first affordable standalone system I’ve seen. This eats into your processing power available for plug-ins and as soon as you leave the DAW, your ‘old’ sound is back. However, the biggest drawback with the Sonarworks system is that you must run the calibration on the master channel of your DAW. Both systems work exceptionally well, with the Sonarworks sounding even more ‘pleasing’ than the Trinov in some cases. I’m an avid user of Sonarworks and the mastering house I use has a Trinov installed. Genelec, for example, are amongst the first to pioneer the idea. Surprisingly, even most monitor manufacturers still don’t provide self-calibrating solutions within their products. On the more affordable side, there a few software solutions such as Sonarworks. Trinov are considered the ultimate hardware solution, but that comes at a significant price. However, technology has slowly improved and in only the last few years this has more widely become considered successful.Īs it’s still early days, there are very limited options if you do want to calibrate your listening environment. The processing quality was considered more detrimental to the audio performance than the gains achieved by removing the room anomalies. Processing the output of studio monitors, or any speakers for that matter, was, until recently, frowned upon.
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