No, not on the same level as ART can do.
You can get rid of nulls and reduce major resonances with multi sub but you cannot drastically reduce RT60 in the whole frequency range below 150Hz the same way ART does it.
I‘ve seen several measurements of ART now and even in a custom home theatre with a single bass array and meters worth of absorption depth, Dirac ART still provides massive improvements.
This post reads like marketing blurb.
Be aware that when any maker brings a new product feature to market, its importance and effect is vastly exaggerated.
And if there is a measure that this product scores better on by a good margin, then the importance and audibility of that measure is vastly exaggerated.
Then the prone-to-overexcitement first-adopters get their hands on said product and huge levels of audible improvement are reported, driven by confirmation bias of course. A legend is born. Game Changer.
Soon, even the middle-adopters are wetting themselves in excitement at said product filtering down to their market segment. "I won't buy any product without this feature." "I can't wait for this feature to appear in my market segment."
Man, such easy money for the makers.
I prefer to be evidence-driven. All I am, sincerely, pressing for, is quality experimental evidence that Dirac ART is clearly perceptually preferred to an expert implementation of multiple subwoofers plus EQ up to the transition frequency, in a sensibly furnished or modestly treated home audio room. Without that, it's just an ambit claim and a pretty graph. Where is the experimental evidence that reducing decay times in the bass, beyond what can be done with passive multi-sub-and-EQ techniques, is audibly preferred in domestic rooms? Remember, there is a threshold of audibility of decay times, aka "enough is enough", and further improvements are pointless, except to the maker who sells them.
Hence, until persuaded otherwise with quality evidence, I am going to recommend that people treat Dirac ART as, at best, a time-saver. Other than time saved, it looks like a solution in search of a problem, aka marketing gold.
