For those who have bought OSS-3D (ended with beta version) and waited painfully for working release of OSS-3D (never come anyway), they should know that Hear was developed by the same developer of OSS-3D. Thus there are still severe legacy problems in latest version (1.0.1) of Hear right now.

In Leopard 10.5.3 with all Apple updates applied, after Hear installation and reboot, look at all processes through Activity Monitor utility. You should notice two entries have turned red:

UserEventAgent (Not responding)
coreaudiod (Not responding)

More worrying fact is after Mac OS upgrade from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 and Hear upgrade from 1.0 to 1.0.1, Core Audio Daemon (coreaudiod) has started to turn red just like UserEventAgent which never happen before. Then there is long standing problem of inconsistent volume level unless Hear front-end is executed immediately after execution of every application. In other words, you have to keep executing Hear front-end repeatedly during login session to maintain consistent volume level throughout the session. This frustrating problem still exist today with Hear 1.0.1 just like previous OSS-3D beta versions.

So please fully evaluate software before posting in this forum to avoid giving misleading information to those uninitiated software buyers. We are suppose to give review constructively with responsibility rather than posting solely for news purpose and based on personal emotion (I don't care how happy you are).