Hear greatly improves audio quality in movies and music throughout all of your Mac OS X applications. With Hear, music is richer, movie sound and dialog is clearer and games will blow you out of your chair!
- 3D Sound - Like movies? like'em more with virtual cinema quality sound experience. Sound will approach you from all angles, even from behind. You are there with Hear.
- Equalizer - Perfect your sound with Hear's studio quality N-band equalizer with built-in peak limiter. You've got control.
- Speaker Correction - Control speaker resonance to increase frequency range and enhance sound.
- Center Channel Control - Control the volume and width of the sound coming from your own virtual center-stage for performance-grade audio effects. A concert in your house.
- Virtual Subwoofer - No Sub? No problem. Let Hear use your existing speakers to boost your bass. Don't you need more thump in your life?
- Ambience - Fine tune reverb to emulate any venue from phone booth to concert hall. Either way, it's music to your ears.
- Fidelity control - Music the way it was meant to be heard. Restore frequency, coloring and intensity lost during the recording process. Put more "hi" in your "fi".
- Much more - Hear can control the volume and quality of each application independently. You can control 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.
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Unfortunately due to the increasing use of sandboxing in OS X, Hear no longer works with many current apps, most importantly iTunes. Hear indeed does NOT work with its main target app!
In a Blogspot article of mine you can find a very cumbersome workaround to make it work again by routing audio through Soundflower and Audacity, but no normal person will want to do this. (Moreover, this hack adds about a second of delay.)
The Prosoft website states that Hear is no longer supported so it will probably be only a matter of time before it breaks completely. I really wish some company would step up and make an equivalent that works (I'm looking at you, Rogue Amoeba).
<< Hear is no longer under development and there is only limited support available. >>
Too bad. I used it for years and have not found another app with the same feature set.
Any alternatives that work as well? I really only want the compression to level out poorly created podcasts. the EQ I can handle. So until they fix this issue I cannot recommend it anymore.
"Mac OS X 10.9 implemented a new security feature called Sandbox. This term describes applications that are secluded from other programs for security purposes. Safari and included plugins happen to be one of these applications.
Hear and other softwares cannot take control of Sandboxed applications."
If that were true then no "softwares" could capture or control Safari's output, but there are plenty of apps that can. I use Audio Hijack daily to record audio from Safari, mostly from one of the plugins. So if AH can capture audio from a sandboxed app, why can't Hear?
Coreaudio is also sandboxed, yet AH is able to capture any system audio, so the dev's answer is incorrect.
Besides, their direct competitor (Boom) works with Safari, so obviously their assertion that no software can control Safari audio is fallacious.
I tried Boom but didn't like the sound. I prefer Hear although its many options can be overwhelming and seem to need frequent tweaking, such as when changing genres in iTunes.
I dislike all of the the presets and have created my own for headphones, podcasts, tv etc.
There's absolutely no reason for Hear to not work in Safari and it's a major shortcoming, thus only 2.5 stars because of this and the bogus excuse.