Hear
Greatly improve the audio quality in movies and music throughout all your Mac OS X applications with Hear.
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Overview
Like movies? You'll like them even more with a virtual cinema quality sound experience. Sound will approach you from all angles, even from behind. Hear makes it possible.
Hear can control the volume and quality of each application independently. You can enable and disable each effect independently. You can apply the effects in any order for dramatic results. You can define and recall presets at any time. You can enjoy Hear's effects through your computer's speakers, headphones, and external speakers. And you can do it all in an easy-to-understand user interface.
Features
- MIXER to adjust the sound volume for various applications
- Most advanced N-band equalizer with built-in peak limiters
- Adjustable general settings (bass, dewoofer, fidelity) and various effects
- 3D to expand the audio environment beyond actual speaker positions
- FX for aggressive surround sound remixing
- BW that generates brain waves to help you relax
- MAXIMIZER to bring a more "live" character to the music (bass is boomier and highs are crisper)
- AMBIENCE to add reverb effect to the output
- Ability to widen the frequency range of your speaker system (or headphones)
- SUB, which expands bass frequencies like a real subwoofer does
- LIMITER to set ceiling and threshold, and control aspects of level compression
- SPACE for creating a virtual re-sounding frame behind the listener's position and bounces the sound around
- FIDELITY to restore the subtle nuances that are often damaged in the recording process
System Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.4, v10.5, or later
- 256MB RAM
Mfr. Part No.: AS-TRM-300
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Most Useful Reviews
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Hear
Well worth $40
Written by DB from Carrollton
Jun 13, 2008
Hear is awesome, awesome, awesome. I have a MacBook Pro and was considering getting some new speakers, but after I got Hear, I'm not really sure I need to. It produce s by far the best simulated surround sound I have ever heard and it clarified my speakers tenfold. The balance it creates in just the Basic Surround Sound preset is phenomenal, and the clarity, depth and volume increases is pleasantly surprising. Highly suggest it! …More
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Hear
Amazing sound using inexpensive speakers & my Mac Mini
Written by WL from Pontypridd
Aug 26, 2008
A couple of months ago I purchased the cheapest set of multimedia speakers I could find (Sony SRS-D21) with a sub-woofer. I found it on sale for about £20.00 at an electronics store in the UK. They sounded okay, but I could barely hear the sub and the clarity of instrumental music (my favorite) proved to be quite flat, even with tweaking the EQ in iTunes.
I just downloaded HEAR and it just blows me away! I'm a little put off by the retail price on their website ($49.95), but you can save $10.00 by getting it through the Apple Store (quite unusual to save anything with Apple, if you know what I mean).
Now I can pump up the sub-woofer and there are some amazing pre-sets to try. Eventually, I went the manual route with the settings, just listening until I found what I was looking for. This speaker system has now come alive!! …More13 of 13 people found this useful
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Hear
Hear By Joesoft, Is A Unique Pleasure, To The Ears Opening, to Modern Sound
Written by GD from Louisville
Nov 8, 2008
I recently downloaded Joe Soft's software, Hear. And. I have to tell you all, that after my "day job," I sit in front of my computer for hours, writing. Sure, I know, Hear "electronically" processes the music streaming down from the hard drive, what else do people expect in this age of digital, technology? We have to face it, analog technology, as beautifully warm as it is, is a thing, of the past, and, believe me, the fastest processors slowly are approximating the clarity and high warmth of analog, without the "sizzle" trailing behind the open sound. Anyway. Hear is an amazing product which (still nascent, experimenting) is one of the first to play with the sound of compressed or uncompressed, digitally magical sound. To cut pragmatically, things short, purchase it. You won't be unsatisfied. It is the only program available today which heightens the sound of any application streaming through your (now) poor sounding Mac. Just, buy it. I Promise you, you won't be sorry...especially after you learn how to unlock the sound potential it has inside, all the available settings you can muster to play with manually and soon arriving to "perfection" inside your ears becoming highly sensitive now, to the bad sound sound, inside your Mac!
…More15 of 18 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Hear
Decent product, but creates problems
Written by MB from Birmingham
Jul 3, 2009
It's a decent product, but it caused Skype to crash almost all the time. After doing some research, it's a known issue with Skype. I had to uninstall it and still can't use it. …More
2 of 3 people found this useful
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Hear
Save your money for the "Things" program.
Written by NM from PLANO
Jan 26, 2009
So, Hear may seem like a nice little program -- that is, until you try to use it.
I've exchanged emails with the JoeSoft and the ProSoft teams, and neither one of them can fix the issue. They're friendly and helpful, but they haven't been able to solve my case.
I was a Hear user when it first released, and expired my trial. Since that trial, the full version software hasn't worked more than 1 day.
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Hear
Awesome!
Written by CG from Newark
Jan 12, 2009
I use this with Pandora and I can't believe how much better the music sounds. It's night and day. The ability to control the audio for each application individually is great. I'd recommend this to anyone that would like to take control of there audio output and loves to listen to music through their Mac. …More
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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Is everyone having a problem with audio skipping while using the presets? If you've found a way to fix the problem, let me know.
- Asked by WT from Moody
- Oct 7, 2009
Most Recent
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Is everyone having a problem with audio skipping while using the presets? If you've found a way to fix the problem, let me know.
- Asked by WT from Moody
- Oct 7, 2009
