{"id":158806,"date":"2023-03-17T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=158806"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T05:08:39","slug":"stormaudio-processors-now-with-new-dirac-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/stormaudio-processors-now-with-new-dirac-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"StormAudio processors now with new DIRAC technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DIRAC\u00a0&#8216;s\u00a0new generation of\u00a0Active\u00a0Room\u00a0Treatment\u00a0(\u00a0ART\u00a0) technology was unveiled at\u00a0<i>CES\u00a0<\/i><i>2023<\/i>\u00a0in January\u00a0.\u00a0The French manufacturer of processors and multi-channel amplifiers for home cinema equipment\u00a0StormAudio\u00a0announced that with the new firmware, its processors will receive this functionality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/264_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DIRAC\u00a0Live\u00a0ART\u00a0works as a home theater active noise cancellation system.\u00a0The idea is to use sound to suppress certain problematic audio frequencies in the room.\u00a0ART technology uses the speakers in your theater to control reverberation, reflections and other room effects.\u00a0The DIRAC Live room correction remains the first step, performing a basic calibration.\u00a0Bass Control manages the integration of a subwoofer into a multi-channel audio system, and now, with ART, the processor will also be able to deal with room reverb issues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/265_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DIRAC ART technology will be available exclusively to users of\u00a0StormAudio\u00a0processors starting in Spring 2023.\u00a0Compatibility has already been confirmed for all\u00a0ISP\u00a0Elite\u00a0series processors (\u00a0<i>MK\u00a0<\/i><i>1,\u00a0<\/i><i>MK\u00a0<\/i><i>2,\u00a0<\/i><i>MK\u00a0<\/i><i>3<\/i>\u00a0) and will be confirmed later for other models.\u00a0The new firmware is already available for free download and installation on all processors of the company (\u00a0<i>ISP\u00a0<\/i><i>Elite\u00a0<\/i><i>MK\u00a0<\/i><i>1,\u00a0<\/i><i>MK\u00a0<\/i><i>2,\u00a0<\/i><i>MK\u00a0<\/i><i>3,\u00a0<\/i><i>ISP\u00a0<\/i><i>Core\u00a0<\/i><i>,\u00a0<\/i><i>ISP\u00a0<\/i><i>Evo\u00a0<\/i><i>,\u00a0<\/i><i>I\u00a0<\/i><i>.\u00a0<\/i><i>ISP\u00a0<\/i><i>,\u00a0<\/i><i>ISP\u00a0<\/i><i>Master<\/i>\u00a0&#8230;) software version\u00a0<i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i>4.4r1\u00a0.\u00a0_\u00a0_\u00a0The new version of the software fixes previously identified bugs and adds many new features.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/266_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Main innovations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>StormEasy Easy Setup Wizard<\/li>\n<li>Multiple sound profiles for a specific speaker configuration (up to 6)<\/li>\n<li>Low latency mode for games, karaoke systems or live music<\/li>\n<li>Changing the sound mode along with changing the active input<\/li>\n<li>Sound delay steps<\/li>\n<li>Management via CEC<\/li>\n<li>HDMI signal pass through when processor is in Standby mode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIRAC\u00a0&#8216;s\u00a0new generation of\u00a0Active\u00a0Room\u00a0Treatment\u00a0(\u00a0ART\u00a0) technology was unveiled at\u00a0CES\u00a02023\u00a0in January\u00a0.\u00a0The French manufacturer of processors and multi-channel amplifiers for home cinema equipment\u00a0StormAudio\u00a0announced that with the new firmware, its processors will receive this functionality. DIRAC\u00a0Live\u00a0ART\u00a0works as a home theater active noise cancellation system.\u00a0The idea is to use sound to suppress certain problematic audio frequencies in the room.\u00a0ART technology uses [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/stormaudio-processors-now-with-new-dirac-technologies\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":158811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-158806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}