Dirac-Enabled BES Chipsets Now Available To Global Headphone Manufacturers

January 19 2023, 00:55
Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac and leading multinational chipset maker BES announced a partnership to pre-integrate the Dirac Virtuo and Dirac Opteo software onto BES chipsets to be used by leading headphone manufacturers to deliver optimized performance in any headphone type. The announcement was made at CES 2023, where it was confirmed that boAt, Monoprice, and Sudio are the first headphone brands to leverage these Dirac-enabled BES chipsets in their devices.
 

Bestechnic (BES) a leading supplier of low-power wireless audio and video SoCs with excellent R&D and design capabilities in acoustics, wireless communication, embedded AI, high-performance SoCs, and comprehensive software architecture. The company provides main control chips in smart wearable devices and home appliances for Samsung, Harman, and many others.

Dirac has already formed similar partnerships with chipset designers Analog Devices and NXP in the automotive and home theater market segments. This collaboration with BES represents the first time Dirac has partnered with a chipset designer in the headphone market. The partnership enables the two companies to offer packaged Dirac-BES solutions that allow manufacturers to more quickly and efficiently equip headphones with premium-quality sound.

"Dirac is known for pioneering the industry’s most advanced digital signal processing solutions that are relied upon by many of the world’s blue chip technology brands across a range of markets," says Nilo Casimiro, Product Lead at Dirac. "However, increasingly key to our growth strategy are partnerships with leading chipset designers like BES to integrate our solutions directly onto their hardware – delivering tremendous value for our shared OEM customers. This partnership with BES represents an important step forward in our mission to deliver superior sound for everyone."

Dirac Virtuo employs a high-resolution binaural room impulse response technology to restore speaker crosstalk and correct the stereo soundstage. With Dirac Virtuo, sound seemingly comes from a pair of premium stereo speakers in front of the listener, rather than from inside their head – creating a truer, more accurate stereo soundstage than regular headphones can deliver.

Dirac Opteo elevates audio performance using Dirac's patented technologies, including MIMO mixed phase correction and mixed-phase impulse response correction, to perfect the sound via data-driven, semi-automatic tuning and advanced audio processing. As a measurement-based digital optimization solution, Dirac Opteo helps manufacturers optimize frequency response and impulse response with consistency and efficiency, improving metrics such as bass, distortion, loudness, staging, clarity and more.

"BES is dedicated to advancing state of the art consumer audio products, and this new partnership with Dirac helps further catapult us to the forefront of headphone innovation," explains Guoguang Zhao, the General Manager of BES "Our premium-quality chipsets now with pre-integrated Dirac make it easier than ever for manufacturers to equip their headphone with improved audio quality that deliver better listening experiences for consumers worldwide."
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