Peerless and Dirac announce strategic partnership
October 23, 2024
Peerless and Dirac Announce Strategic Partnership to Empower Home and Pro Audio Manufacturers to More Efficiently Create World-Class Room Correction Systems
The partnership integrates Dirac’s award-winning Dirac Live solution into Peerless’ Flow DSP audio development platform to enable home and pro audio companies to more seamlessly and efficiently integrate premium room correction into their product portfolio.
BRIDGEND, Wales, and UPPSALA, Sweden, October 22, 2024 – Peerless and Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac today announced a strategic partnership that promises to revolutionize sound reproduction across the home and pro audio markets. The collaboration merges Peerless’ expertise in acoustics and audio modules with Dirac’s excellence in room correction to enable manufacturers to leverage the Flow DSP platform to seamlessly integrate Dirac Live into their audio products.
The integration of Dirac’s cutting-edge Dirac Live Room Correction solution into Peerless Flow DSP, as part of the comprehensive X-IN-1 technology suite, offers flexible system, platform, and software licensing models. This empowers audio brands, engineers, and product managers to effortlessly incorporate Dirac Live Room Correction into their offerings using a Peerless-optimized platform combined with the intuitive and flexible Flow Studio DSP design suite. The integration is currently available on select processor architectures, such as Cortex-A, and platforms like Raspberry Pi and Amlogic A113X2. However, it can be expanded to additional platforms as needed to accommodate customer requirements.
“The acoustic expertise accumulated over Peerless’ nearly 100-year history in making excellent transducers ensures that the drivers themselves deliver premium quality,” said Jyri Pakarinen PhD, Software Business Development Director at Peerless. “When integrated into a final product, such as a soundbar, Flow DSP enables the crucial fine-tuning needed to retain top sound quality as the product leaves the factory. Finally, Dirac Live’s industry-leading multi-phase room correction guarantees the best possible sound in the end user’s home, completing the continuous chain of audio excellence our customers deserve.”
Dirac Live, now accessible through Peerless’ Flow DSP platform, is the market-leading room correction solution. It automatically addresses common acoustic challenges that all home and professional audio systems have, but hardware alone can’t address – or takes too much time, expertise, or cost to do so.
The solution is unique in that it corrects for both the magnitude and phase of the entire sound system, including the room itself – resulting in more transparent, balanced sound, tighter bass, improved staging, and enhanced clarity.
“In recent years, Dirac has accelerated its commercial work within the home and pro audio markets through collaborations with high-volume manufacturers that cater to the mainstream market,” stated Fredric Tapper, Dirac’s VP of Home & Pro Audio. “For this customer segment in particular, time-to-market is critically important, which is why we’ve partnered with Peerless to incorporate Dirac Live into its Flow DSP platform. Through this integration, home and pro audio OEMs will be able to more quickly, seamlessly, and efficiently integrate Dirac Live into their devices, which will further our mission to bring the benefits of premium room correction technology from the few to the many.”
The Flow DSP platform’s integration of Dirac Live accelerates manufacturers’ time-to-market, improves their audio development efficiency, and optimizes sound quality per dollar. The partnership represents a significant milestone for both companies in their collective mission to scale premium sound reproduction across the home and pro audio markets.
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About Peerless:
With a legacy dating back to 1926, Peerless has been setting the benchmark for audio excellence. As a component business subsidiary of Tymphany, a renowned designer and producer of audio systems, Peerless leverages decades of acoustic expertise to empower audio engineers worldwide. Offering certified and proven audio component building blocks, including transducers, audio modules, and software & licensing, Peerless is committed to enabling the creation of the world’s most innovative speaker products.
About Dirac:
Dirac develops digital software solutions that create a significantly improved sound experience for all types of sound systems. Our customers include enterprises, such as sound system manufacturers and streaming services, as well as consumers. Dirac is a global company with headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden and R&D facilities in Copenhagen, Denmark and Bangalore, India, with representation in Greater China, Germany, Japan, Korea, and the USA.
Peerless Contact:
Taylor Moore
Market Manager
taylor.moore@tymphany.com
Dirac Contact:
Daniel Griffin
Griffin360