Dirac has partnered with McIntosh, making the award-winning Dirac Live Room Correction solution available to McIntosh customers through the Dirac Live-enabled MHT300 Home Theater Receiver.

Powered by patented technologies, Dirac Live is the market-leading room correction solution that automatically addresses common acoustic challenges that all home audio systems have but hardware alone can’t address, or takes too much time, expertise or cost to do so.

The McIntosh MHT300 Home Theater Receiver is a 7.2-channel AVR with 32-bit DACs that provides up to 150W per channel simultaneously for up to 1,050 total watts of precision-engineered audio.

The Dolby Atmos and Dolby DTS:X compatible receiver supports 8K/60Hz and 4K/120Hz video and features a range of modern connections including HDMI, delivering bandwidth of 40Gpbs and an eARC HDMI channel for audio return.

Dirac Live Room Correction digitally compensates for the room’s impact on audio performance to enable a sound experience previously only possible in a professional studio. The MHT300 accomplishes this through a patented mixed-phase impulse response correction technology that corrects not just magnitude response but also time domain, which is exclusive to Dirac Live and critical for creating accurate staging, clarity and tight bass.

Dirac Live Room Correction also generates an auto-target curve based on the sound system’s unique measurements, which makes it easier for users to get even better sound quality from their system automatically. This auto-target curve is then fully customisable so users can get their speakers to sound exactly how they want.

“McIntosh is renowned as one of the leading makers of high-end home audio and home theatre equipment, and by working with Dirac to integrate the sophisticated Dirac Live software into the new MHT300, we are offering McIntosh users an even greater level of realism and immersion for all their favourite films and music,” Dirac Home and Pro Audio vice president Fredric Tapper says.

“At CEDIA 2023, we’re excited to demonstrate how the best sound system is one that transports the listener into the scene or recording studio. Dirac Live is helping deliver that experience by ensuring MHT300 owners get the best audio experiences out of their systems, regardless of speaker locations, room size or furniture placement.”

Used by world-renowned musicians, sound engineers, high-end brands and commercial cinemas, Dirac Live’s suite of audio optimisation solutions is also leveraged by many of the industry leaders across the automotive, HiFi, headphone and studio markets, such as NIO, Volvo, Polestar, BYD, Klipsch and ASUS, among others.