Dirac Live Active Room Treatment is the cutting edge of DSP enhanced audio

Big news for audiophiles - Dirac's Live Active Room Treatment (aka Dirac ART) software is out in the real world. Unfortunately it's only available on fancy French brand Storm Audio's $20,000+ AVRs and processors, but it exists and is apparently, awesome. If you're unfamiliar with room correction/treatment software, it's like Truplay on Sonos gear or the auto-EQ on Apple's HomePods and is how they can get great sound out of such small speakers. There's not a lot of first hand reviews of Dirac's ART out there due to being on such esoteric hardware, but StereoNET has been using it for a few months and reckons "the results are remarkable". Audioholics has a nice article from earlier this year explaining how Dirac ART works (considers the system as a whole and uses a kind of noise cancellation to filter out weird frequencies) and there's a thread on Audio Science Review if you wanna know the latest on when it'll filter down to more affordable hardware. Rumour is Denon & Marantz's high end units will get a paid upgrade early 2024.