Comments on: 'Hear' from JoeSoft Improves Mac OS X Audio

By: Marzzel

Marzzel — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:18:27 +0000

I’m trying hear and is such an amazing tool for audiophiles, incredible the unlimited configurations possible with it. My home theater never sounded better. But the only problem I found on hear that it doesn’t work with my Google Chrome for some reason. Hope they find soon a solution. =/

Thanks Joesoft!

By: Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:34:13 +0000

i’m using Hear with Pandoro to play fantastic music on my MacBook Pro when I’m not doing anything else requiring audio. Pandara is just a website, and probably 32 bit only, and Hear seems to work great with it — before, it was deficient in treble, but not anymore. I would much prefer Pandoro to be an app and not a websiste, as I have to keep it aftive using Chrome else it goes away. Hear is an app and no problem like that.

By: Bwyan

Bwyan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:08:08 +0000

It seems to me that when Hear has do handle the new 64-bit applications in Snow Leopard, such as the new Quick Time Player X, it can’t do anything to the sound output.

If i open the same movie file in the old Quick Time Player 7, everything seems to work fine.

It’s the same thing when using VLC. I’m pretty sure they upgraded their application to 64-bit as well, as far as I remember.

This leads me to believe that Hear hasn’t been upgraded to handle the API for sound that newer 64-bit applications might be using.

Just a though… I hope they release an update soon.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:47:11 +0000

Hear has barely been working to not working at all even before my upgrade to snow leopard. i emailed tech support to see if i can find a fix for it. they told me to check and fix my permissions. did that for both my laptop and mac pro but still to no avail. ={

By: DrLex

DrLex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:48:36 +0000

Because Hear hasn’t been updated in ages, it is still a 32-bit application. Therefore it cannot work with any 64-bit application in Snow Leopard (like QuickTime X). Luckily iTunes is still 32-bit, which is why most people haven’t really noticed this huge flaw yet.

I hope Joesoft fixes this soon, because all apps, iTunes included, will migrate to 64-bit in the near future. I hope they also fix the annoying bugs like the controls that jump back to previous settings some times, the memory leaks and the fact that it simply stops working after a while. I really like what it can do, but if I had known how bug-ridden it was, I’d probably never have paid its rather steep price.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:05:43 +0000

I don’t think 10.6.2 allows Hear to work very well either. It works for me only sometimes.

By: quepao

quepao — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:57:56 +0000

Hears works perfect also with Leopard Snow.. 10.6.2! 😉

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:35:59 +0000

Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard it does not seem like Hear does anything to the audio.

By: pure

pure — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:56:54 +0000

As I first bougt my Mac Mini I was verry disapointed by the poor sound it produced in combination with my Sennheiser HD Headhones.

Then I connected the Mac with a Yamaha Receiver, Sound was much better, but not good enough in my opinion.

Then I hear about Hear and give it a try and now I will not miss this little program anymore. With Hear my Mac sounds now more richer than it does with the Receiver before.

But I spend days to find the right adjustments because there are so many options.

For People the try Hear for the first time with a Mac Mini it is best to disable first all functions in Hear.

For me the best settings with my Headphones are to move the Superbass slider to 80%, the Fidelity slider to 15%, the Extended Fidelity should be enabled and both silders of the Contour Maximizer should be on 50%.

Give it a try and enjoy the Music!