Consumer Electronics

The manufacturing competition within consumer electronics is fierce. Manufacturers are expected to keep costs down and constantly improve their products, all at a very low margin.

As a manufacturer of consumer electronics, you can use the Dirac HD Sound™ software to improve the sound of your sound systems or your product's built in sound system, at the same time as you can reduce time-to-market and speaker costs.

As new efficient audio formats become available and as storage capacity can be obtained at a low price, a much more sound-aware consumer is arising. Yet, according to recent issues of Consumer Reports publication, a high rating in sound is very rare among manufacturers. With Dirac HD Sound™ you will not only get a performance increase of the sound, but also several prominent benefits in the manufacturing that will make you more competitive.

Performance benefits of Dirac HD Sound™ for consumer electronics:

• Voice correction - voices become clear and intelligible
• Stereo image correction - sound is decoupled from the loudspeakers
• Bass correction - a deeper and tighter bass
• Listening fatigue minimization
• Tonal & transient correction

Manufacturing benefits of Dirac HD Sound™ for consumer electronics:

• Shorten tuning time
• Reduce quality variations
• Shorten time-to-market
• Swift design iterations
• Enable the use of a smaller or lower quality cabinet
• Decreased hardware costs with maintained performance

In terms of implementation the filters can be run on a DSP or from a PC or Mac computer.

For more information about Dirac HD Sound™, please see the Technologies section.

For more information regarding licensing, please contact us.