The Dirac DDRC-88D fits between your digital source and your DAC. Like all Dirac Livre DSPs, the DDRC-88D allows you to measure your listening space in all its complexity in order to automatically apply several sound compensation levels. In other words, this device is able to listen to the sound specific to your installation in a given room to compensate for imperfections (such as the resonance of a frequency in the room for example or latency caused by an off-axis loudspeaker in a speaker). The processing algorithm is even able to correct for frequency and time variations caused by the physical presence of people listening in the room.

The DDRC-88D provides surprisingly clear sound that will highlight the qualities of an installation rather than its imperfections. The result is an improved stereo image that unfolds with high sharpness, increased realism, more accurate timbre and deeper bass.

To operate this unit must be associated with a microphone not supplied. It will be particularly effective with MiniDSP microphones that provide extremely accurate pickup. If you do not already have a measuring microphone, we recommend the UMIK-1 of MiniDSP.

An accessible and highly advanced PSD

The particularity of Dirac Live DSPs is to offer you an extremely simple configuration method based on the successive positioning of a specific microphone according to a step-by-step methodology. In other words, all you have to do is tell the software your sound ambitions (full-size cinema, home cinema or listening room) and it will tell you where to position the microphone. Dirac can then automatically take measurements to "diagnose" the part and installation by comparing them to an ideal model. This DSP configuration method allows to obtain a result approaching the acoustic treatment without requiring any work or particular knowledge in acoustics.

This step-by-step adjustment allows you to benefit from a DSP configured precisely to meet your expectations according to the problems inherent to your listening room.

Naturally, the DDRC-88D algorithm is capable of simultaneously processing multiple channels. It can be used to configure a DSP on sound systems with up to 8 channels (7.1). The automatic configuration of such an installation does not require any additional complexity.

Easy to connect

To facilitate its integration into complex installations, the DDRC-88D DSP has a very intuitive connection system. Only one dB25 cable is connected to the device housing. The latter is divided into 8 to give 4 BNC inputs and 4 BNC outputs. In order not to entangle the brushes, each of these inputs and outputs is identified by a simple color code.