I just recently purchased a G-Project G-Grip sound bar for my Mac. I already have an audio system where I'm running a DAC to the system, so I just wanted something small and decent to use "for PC stuff only." In reviews, the G-Grip supposedly sounds as good as the Jambox at a much lower cost. Well, to tell the truth. I don't really care for it. It just doesn't sound good on its own. I was thinking of returning it and trying the FoxL V2, which apparently has much better sound quality.

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.

Sadly Hear no longer applies to Flash in Safari 7.0 and 6.1 (i just use Chrome to watch the Daily Show)
Still, it's a great addition to any Mac!
Apple should buy them and add this to the Mac OS!!

Hear 1.1.6 is not supported in Safari 6.1

I am a classical listener and came upon HEAR while looking for something else. I downloaded the demo and was very impressed, so I bought it the same day. I've been an audiophile for over 50 years and basically believe the "the less signal processing, the better." However, in the world of MP3 and AAC (iTunes) this rule breaks down because you're starting out with a highly processed signal from the get go. I have missed the "sweetness" of tone that vinyl used to have (though I have not missed the surface noise of same). I have a lot of music in iTunes and was "living with" the stridency of string sound that sometimes was there. With HEAR and using the Classical preset, the stridency has been almost eliminated and the sweetness of the vinyl sound has returned. I am running the sound through a NAD amplifier and Paradigm tower speakers. Music simply sounds more musical again. I am more than satisfied with this addition to my iTunes server.

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 (!!).

Why are people attempting to use Hear as an aid for sound-PROduction and then getting pissed off because it doesn't work worth a damn? Hear is a sound-REproduction tool. It's meannt to be used with music-players ONLY. I use it with every music-player from iTunes and BitPerfect to high-end players like Pure Music and Amarra. If you din't like what you Hear using its presets out of the box, you can modify Hear to your heart's delight and, when they cease to delight, it's no problem to change them or to revert them. I haven't tried to use Hear in conjunction with Audio HJ Pro, but Hear plays well with Digital Power Station, AstoundSound, and iWow. Use Hear as it's supposed to be used, for sound-REproduction, and, though you may not be satisfied enough with it to decide to buy it, at least you won't be criticizing it because you've tried to pound a square peg of REproduction into the round hole of PROduction.

I wanted to try this software, i have a license bought from here at MacUpdate.com but when i run Gear, i see just the dock icon and nothing else, from the menu i can't open any window... already tried t o delete prefs, unistall and reinstall. I'm running 10.9.2. I need a software to lower only USB volume cause them are too loud even at minimum volume.

It seems the download link has some problems, I can't able to download it.

Doesn't seems to work with Flash 11.1.102.55 (playing safari videos) on Safari 5.1.2. Also doesn't work with Safari embeded videos. Any fix or solution for that?
Thanks.

PROSOFT SUPPORT As Gordon noted, we are working on a new version of Hear that will be available in the coming months.

In the coming years I think.

Hear is not compatible with Front Row and not compatible with Snow Leopard's Quicktime X.

Yes, definitely a memory leak. What a pity, such a great app.