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
What's New
Version 1.1.6:
- Fixed silent audio output in some apps
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
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| Downloads:65,479 |
| Version Downloads:18,775 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Audio |
| License:Demo |
| Date:11 Sep 2012 |
| Platform:Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $19.95 |
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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!
Hear more with Hear.
- 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.
Hear more with Hear.
RyanB8318 reviewed on 15 Feb 2014
Well, I decided to at least try an equalizer first. I tried Boom, but then I discovered and downloaded Hear, and it is MUCH better for this kind of thing than a simple equalizer. The sound quality is so much improved on the G-Grip with Hear that I'm completely happy with it as my PC-only speaker. I can't believe the difference.
That said, this difference was made with very conservative settings. I am barely altering the signal using the equalizer. I am also using the Fidelity effect (which provides the best improvement of the features), set to 85 Frequency, 0 coloring and 75 Intensity. Then I'm using the Speaker feature to reduce resonance and accent the mid range. (The 2 Resonance settings are at 15 and the mid-range accent is at 50.) That's it. And the difference is night and day.
Not only does the speaker bar sound much better, but it has reduced the distortion a little so that I can turn the volume up a little higher.
Why on earth didn't they just make the speaker sound this good to start with? I guess then it would have to cost $200 like the FoxL V2. Ha. But for $20 more, Hear turned an unhappy return into something more worth it. Now, if only Hear was available on the iPad.
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IH8BNL8 reviewed on 10 Jan 2014
Overall 4.5 because I want a system tray icon. There is no way of knowing if it's running or not (besides listening).
Features 5 Best audio customization app period. Most features. High quality. (10band EQ or you can use 96 bands HAHA)
Ease 4 because of this insane transparency. I lose control of it and would rather it be a login process and remain in system tray
Value 4 cause it's $20!
STability 5 haven't had any problems with Mavericks 10.9.1
Comment: There is no system tray, nor user login item. There is a "Hear" process but only when the window pane is open. When you close it, it disappears as a process but still runs indefinitely (even through a restart). There is a no daemon from Hear either. I am baffled where the transparent background process is! The user manual states "The Hear Audio Server handles all the audio processing in background transparently"...
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Petersphilo reviewed on 29 Oct 2013
Still, it's a great addition to any Mac!
Apple should buy them and add this to the Mac OS!!
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Thank Apple for sandboxing the system to death!
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I didn't even think of doing that!!
This is so great for me because this is how i listen to NPR shows, as well as The Daily Show, and i had to use Chrome for that...
Thank you again!
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if the Prosoft people are reading this, i would definitely recommend that they mention this somewhere in a FAQ on their website!
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Mrchips reviewed on 27 Oct 2013
I've just installed it after installing Mavericks (10.9.0) and it seems to be working perfectly!
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Ronl reviewed on 27 Jun 2013
Best app for tweak audio on your Mac.
Caveat: expect to have to take some time tweaking the presets (or creating some of you very own from scratch). If you're willing to put in some time tweaking... I believe you'll love this app.
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JBB_UT reviewed on 09 Apr 2013
That being said, I wish the documentation (manual) were more complete. For example, under FIDELITY it would be nice to know what the three slide switches do and how they do it. The manual, as it is, is a good start. It just needs to have more information.
Finally, they need to figure out how to get this sound through AppleTV. Music off my MacMini (server) sounds GREAT (as described above), but it now sounds substantially better than my major listening area in my media room. Somehow they need to process the digital signal going out wirelessly to the AppleTV -- OR Apple needs to take some of its cash and buy ProSoft Engineering and incorporate their accomplishment directly into the AppleTV hardware (!!).
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Duncan Adams reviewed on 25 Jan 2013
I found Audio Hijack Pro gave ME better sound and was a lot easier with the Effects tab to use to get what I want ..
I own Hear it was part of a bundle I think ... would have to go back and look .... Tried it a few times ... then went back to my Audio Hijack ... it's just easier to get the sound I want ...
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lamontDakota reviewed on 13 Dec 2012
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Thaiwest reviewed on 13 Dec 2012
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Notes: I downloaded the demo from the developer's website. I'm on Mac OS 10.7.4, MacBook Pro 15-inch 2012.
Biggest problem: Volume doesn't go louder. The volume slider for the applications (in Hear) is already to the maximum, so I can only make things quieter.
Next: It doesn't pull up volume options for Safari or Screenflow... is there a way to get those to work with it?
Also: It somehow caused iTunes to mute. I didn't select any of the options in Hear, but when I opened Garageband, iTunes went mute. Had to restart. ?
And: When it installed, the music coming from iTunes (through the macbook speakers) sounded horrible. I had to turn everything off. I don't really care about the other features right now, but does anyone have recommendations for Hear settings on the MacBook Pro?
What I need is to be able to a) make Garageband louder, because it's super quiet, and b) make browsers quiet (e.g. for noisy ads). Bonus would being able to make Screenflow louder and Mail quieter.
Can I accomplish these things with Hear?
Thank you, much obliged,
~Myra (Ignolopi)
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Thanks.
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In the coming years I think.
Hear is not compatible with Front Row and not compatible with Snow Leopard's Quicktime X.
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And there's no update from Joesoft for more than one year now! This is not serious. And they still continue to sell it on their website!
It is sad, because it is a beautifully designed products, but it just doesn't work anymore. :( Hopefully, there's some companies that put a real development on their product and take really care of their consumers. Audio Hijack Pro from Rogue Amoeba Software is the alternative and it really works the way you want!
Goodbye Joesoft! It was (almost) a pleasure using (and paying!) your software.
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So I will use SRSiWOW - that works - without restarting my Mac every time!
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We are seeing a few isolated cases, where, after some amount of time (usually a few weeks or so), that Hear requires a restart. We are looking into the cause of this and once determined, can look for a bug fix for that. Its not occurring for most customers and therefore it makes it trickier to track down and reproduce.
Cheers,
Gordon from Prosoft
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