PRELIMINARY
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/ Features and specifications subject to change without prior notice
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IVE
The C-DSP 8x12 DL executes Dirac Live® digital room correction, from
Dirac Research
. This mixed-phase filtering
technology will minimize the effects of cabin modes and resonances, adjust frequency response to optimum,
and improve imaging, dynamics and clarity.
To accomplish its remarkable improvement in listening quality, the
Dirac Live Calibration Tool
(DLCT) steps you
through the procedure for taking measurements around your listening area. Dirac Live® employs a sophisticated
analysis algorithm to make the optimal correction across the
whole
listening area, not just at a single point. The
user has full control over the target response. Measurements are taken with a calibrated acoustic measurement
microphone, the miniDSP UMIK-1.
In addition to correcting frequency
response, Dirac Live® corrects the system’s
impulse response
, which reflects
how the system responds to a sharp transient such as a drumbeat. Reflections, diffraction, resonances,
misaligned drivers, and so on, all combine to smear out the transient. Correcting the impulse response makes
the speaker behave much more like an ideal speaker.
The C-DSP 8x12 DL
provides, in addition to Dirac Live, a full suite of miniDSP’s
audio processing functions on
each channel. Combined with two flexible matrix mixers for audio routing, this enables advanced applications
such as in-vehicle active crossovers to be corrected by Dirac Live, all in a compact 12V-powered unit.
