Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac and ASUS, announced an expansion of their partnership to integrate the award-winning Dirac Virtuo spatial audio solution into the powerful new ROG Phone 7 series of gaming smartphones – delivering users amazingly realistic, immersive soundscapes anywhere they go.
According to Dirac Chief Commercial Officer Mats Oberg, this continued collaboration helps provide the ASUS community with best-in-class gaming and media experiences through unrivaled immersive audio performance.
“Working directly with global technology leaders is core to our mission to improve the state of digital sound reproduction across various device types and use cases,” said Oberg. “By integrating Dirac Virtuo into ASUS’ new flagship smartphones and laptops, we are delivering on our vision to show the world that immersive, clear, and balanced sound experiences don’t only have to come from an expensive surround sound theater system. We are committed to working with device makers of all types to ensure premium sound experiences are available to everyone, everywhere.”
Dirac Virtuo enables a high-resolution spatial and immersive sound experience by creating a spacious, natural soundscape beyond the physical confines the sound system with accurate sound localization.
Dirac Virtuo enables immersive sound from the device’s built-in speakers while enhancing the speakers’ overall sound quality. The solution compensates for the shortcomings of small speakers to enhance their acoustic performance dramatically, while also creating a soundstage much wider than the device itself – enabling exceptional immersion for gaming, movies, music and more without requiring multi-channel or object-based content types.
For headphones connected to the ROG Phone 7, Dirac Virtuo employs a high-resolution binaural 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, and immersive stereo soundstage than standard headphones can deliver.
“Today’s consumer demand for premium video and audio quality are higher than ever, and through our partnership with Dirac we are exceeding our community’s expectations with awe-inspiring sound reproduction across some of our latest flagship devices,” ASUS said. “The realistic spatial soundstage created by Dirac Virtuo brings audio to life in ways previously not possible, creating richer, more immersive gaming, music, and movie experiences. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Dirac to provide our ASUS community with the world’s best mobile sound.”
The ROG Phone 7 series includes two models – the ROG Phone 7 and ROG Phone 7 Ultimate – which each leverage the audio excellence of Dirac Virtuo. Both phones offer all the power that users need for any task, with the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform and advanced GameCool 7 thermal system delivering hours of carefree media enjoyment and gaming.
Furthermore, gamers who want physical buttons, greater cooling for marathon sessions, and even better sound can connect the add-on AeroActive Cooler 7, which adds a powerful thermoelectric AI cooling system, four rear ergonomic buttons, and a powerful subwoofer that creates a 2.1 system optimized by Dirac Virtuo.
