Dirac HD Player app for iPhone and iPad
Thinking of buying expensive earphones? Try this first! Dirac HD Player is an easy-to-use music player based on advanced technology that genuinely improves the sound from Apple’s original Earphones, EarPods and In-Ear Headphones.
BENEFITS:
- NO SOUND EFFECT, but instead tailored to control the acoustic properties of the original iPhone earphones – the only way to achieve a genuine improvement that causes less listening fatigue.
- NATURAL SOUND with increased clarity in music and voices. Deepens the bass, removes resonances and acoustic problems.
- NO COMPLICATED SETTINGS, select your earphone model and hear the difference by switching ON/OFF.
- VERY COST EFFICIENT and green alternative to buying expensive earphones.
- USES THE USUAL SIMPLE FUNCTIONALY that you are accustomed to with your iPhone, while the optimization runs in the background.
Listen to music from your iTunes library with improved sound quality. No technical know-how is needed. Under the hood however, it uses technology normally used in some of the world’s best hifi, studio and cinema sound systems.
Due to physical constraints, it is impossible to design a perfect earphone solely with hardware components. Dirac’s audio scientists have made precise acoustic measurements of the original iPhone earphones, allowing a tailored digital software processor based on Dirac HD Sound® technology.
Like a pair of glasses improves the perception of poor eyesight, this technology improves and corrects the sound, so that it becomes cleaner and closer to a perfect sound reproduction. It has nothing to do with sound effects or graphic equalizers used in other apps.
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COMPATIBILITY:
The sound improvement is tailored for Apple’s original Earphones, EarPods and In-Ear Headphones. The app should not be used with other earphones.
Utilizes the iTunes music library.
DRM protected music is not playable by Dirac HD Player (or any other 3rd party app).
Please note that iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud not yet fully supported.
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Dirac Research AB is a Swedish audio research firm that specializes in digital sound optimization solutions. The company was founded in 2001 by researchers from Uppsala University, in Sweden. Today Dirac supplies sound technology to some of the most high performing brands in the world, including BMW, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Datasat Digital Entertainment.
Latest reviews of Dirac HD Player app for iPhone and iPad
Unfortunately the full version crashes instantly on my iPad 3 and on my iPhone 5. I am unsure about the reason cause the limited version works. Please release an update and get into that matter.
This is an amazing app. It works very well. The difference in sound is very significant. Earpods are amazing on their own, however, with this app they gain $200 in value IMO. You can hear all the layers of music. All the frequencies in high fidelity. Highly recommended. iTunes Match is not yet supported though.
I own a set of P5s and C5s from Bowers and Wilkins…This app plus the new earPods that come bundled with your iPhone and iPod touch give both Bowers and Wilkins phones a serious run for their money. Although the P5s and the C5s have the edge when it comes to noise isolation (and therefore listening in noisy environments) I actually prefer listening to my earPods now in semi-quiet places (amazing sound signature and superior comfort and ergonomics—the apple engineered hardware always sits just right in my ear for maximum comfort and sound delivery, unlike the BW options which are much more fiddly about placement). Dont hesitate, just buy this app. Although, you cant directly access your iTunes Match library from within the app, the sound quality makes the minor inconvenience of pre-downloading music within the bundled music app barely worth a mention. Update: Dirac no longer accesses your music--even locally stored music. The effect was wonderful when it worked, but it would seem the developer is no longer interested or capable of supporting its own product.
Bought this app years ago, but they never updated it, with new iPhone this app does not work at all, money wasted.
I dont know how they do it (and neither does anyone else), but Rolls Royce, BMW, and Bentley use Dirac technology in their vehicles and they cant all be wrong. This app was specifically designed to improve the audio qualities of the ubiquitous basic iPhone/iPod/iPad Earphones and Earbuds based upon extensive analysis of their inherent designs. Mission accomplished. Youll be astounded by the improvements in frequency response and spatial imaging. Truly astounding, and HIGHLY recommended.