John Atkinson first spotted Dirac Research lurking at the back of a CEDIA expo in Atlanta back in 2010 — not yet ready to demonstrate, but clearly confident enough to tease. The Swedish company was promising something ambitious: digital filters capable of correcting loudspeaker behavior not just in the frequency domain, but in the time domain as well. That dual-domain approach set Dirac apart from the room-correction crowd even then, and it remains the company's core differentiator today.
Dirac Live ART: Swedish Room-Correction Software Takes Aim at Your Listening Room's Worst Habits
Dirac Research's latest ART (Adaptive Room Treatment) software for PC and Mac promises to tame problematic listening room acoustics through advanced digital filtering in both the frequency and time domains — reviewed in depth by Kalman Rubinson for *Stereophile*.
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