Peerless and Dirac Announce strategic partnership to empower home and pro audio manufacturers to more efficiently create world-class room correction systems.
Peerless and Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac have announced a strategic partnership that promises to revolutionise sound reproduction across the home and pro audio markets. The collaboration merges Peerless’ expertise in acoustics and audio modules with Dirac’s abilities in room correction to enable manufacturers to leverage the Flow DSP platform to seamlessly integrate Dirac Live into their audio products.
The integration of Dirac’s cutting-edge Dirac Live Room Correction solution into Peerless Flow DSP, as part of the comprehensive X-IN-1 technology suite, is intended to offer flexible system, platform and software licensing models. This empowers audio brands, engineers, and product managers to incorporate Dirac Live Room Correction into their offerings using a Peerless-optimised platform combined with the intuitive and flexible Flow Studio DSP design suite. The integration is currently available on select processor architectures, such as Cortex-A, and platforms like Raspberry Pi and Amlogic A113X2. However, it can be expanded to additional platforms as needed to accommodate customer requirements.
“The acoustic expertise accumulated over Peerless’ nearly 100-year history in making excellent transducers ensures that the drivers themselves deliver premium quality,” says Jyri Pakarinen PhD, Software Business Development Director at Peerless. “When integrated into a final product, such as a soundbar, Flow DSP enables the crucial fine-tuning needed to retain top sound quality as the product leaves the factory. Finally, Dirac Live’s industry-leading multi-phase room correction guarantees the best possible sound in the end user’s home, completing the continuous chain of audio excellence our customers deserve.”
The package
Dirac Live, now accessible through Peerless’ Flow DSP platform, is the market-leading room correction solution, argue the partners. It automatically addresses common acoustic challenges that all home and professional audio systems have, but hardware alone can’t address – or takes too much time, expertise, or cost to do so.
The companies say the solution is unique in that it corrects for both the magnitude and phase of the entire sound system, including the room itself – resulting in more transparent, balanced sound, tighter bass, improved staging, and enhanced clarity.
“In recent years, Dirac has accelerated its commercial work within the home and pro audio markets through collaborations with high-volume manufacturers that cater to the mainstream market,” states Fredric Tapper, Dirac’s VP of Home & Pro Audio. “For this customer segment in particular, time-to-market is critically important, which is why we’ve partnered with Peerless to incorporate Dirac Live into its Flow DSP platform. Through this integration, home and pro audio OEMs will be able to more quickly, seamlessly, and efficiently integrate Dirac Live into their devices, which will further our mission to bring the benefits of premium room correction technology from the few to the many.”
The Flow DSP platform’s integration of Dirac Live accelerates manufacturers’ time-to-market, improves their audio development efficiency, and optimises sound quality per dollar, say the partners.
