Filed under: Audio, Macintosh, Commercial
Hear it loud and clear
by Joey Celis Jul 16th 2008 at 1:00PM
The built in speakers that come with Apple's notebooks are fine for most basic audio tasks. And if you want better sound you could hook up a set of external speakers. But external speakers aren't always an option and that shouldn't mean that you have to give up on better sound. With Hear, you can add some slick audio processing to make your notebook speakers sound bigger than what they really are.
Hear uses digital signal processing (DSP) to shape the audio coming from your applications (iTunes or DVD player) giving them a much needed boost in equalization and reverb allowing your music or movie to sound its best with the notebook speakers.
To make things easy, Hear has packaged a variety of presents to get you going. If you're the tweaking type, you can adjust the knobs and faders till you get the sound you're after.
In our testing we found the processing fine for most audio content and really enjoyed the phantom center channel option giving a weighted anchor to all the movies we watched.
Hear isn't only for your built in speakers, it also works great with headphones or external speakers. But if all you have is the notebook built in speakers, Hear will definitely make them sound better.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joel Korzep said 1:14PM on 7-16-2008
I have been looking for something like this for a long time now. Thanks, guys.
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Halo2Master said 1:22PM on 7-16-2008
"To make things easy, Hear has packaged a variety of presents to get you going."
Well that is very nice of them, but I have a feeling you meant to say "presets".
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Jhongerkong said 4:09PM on 7-17-2008
No. Didnt you hear? Free puppies and cake included.
Allen said 2:21PM on 7-16-2008
What is a windows version of this?
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Jhongerkong said 4:09PM on 7-17-2008
A miserable little pile of software?
Max said 11:11AM on 7-17-2008
Fifty dollars? No thanks.
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Fido said 1:23AM on 8-25-2009
I am looking for something which gives me a co,pany for a long time but this stuff would not be capable of this................
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