DTS – Saving Us from Poor PC Audio Quality
ETC Editorial
Entertainment Technology Center
DTS has announced an enhanced featureset for PC audio chips that license their technology. The new DTS Premium Suite II includes:
– DTS Clear Voice: Noise suppression and echo cancellation for voice-over-IP and video conferencing applications.
– DTS Clear Audio: Noise compensation technology to intelligently boost frequencies that may be drowned out by outside noise.
– DTS Audio Restoration: Enhancement technology that seeks to restore compressed audio to the quality of the original source.
– DTS Enhance: Augments the low and high frequencies of compressed audio to improve the perceived quality of lossy compressed audio at lower bit rates.
These features are currently available in an all-in-one Onkyo PC on display at their booth as well as in select Realtek audio codecs.
It’s great to see DTS focus on a market that has lagged so far behind the rest of the CE market when it comes to audio quality. While consumers carefully examine video card performance when buying a new PC, audio performance is rarely even considered. This typically results in a consumer having a brand new computer with a $300 video card and a sub $2 audio card.
The demonstration I heard sounded great and I look forward to seeing (hearing?) this product suite find its way into more products.
