kmiller0202
New Head-Fier
After recently purchasing the Fiio K17, I wanted a way to take advantage of the DSP PEQ presets using the amazing community driven OPRA headphone measurement database from Roon.
If you're unfamiliar with the OPRA database, details are here. (OPRA is a community-driven, open directory that compiles headphone product information and EQ compensation curves to make high-quality audio optimization accessible to everyone, regardless of experience, software, or gear. Thousands of presets from oratory-1990, Crinacle and others for virtually all major headphones and IEMs.)
I wrote a tool to convert the entire database into importable files to use with the Fiio DSP desktop application for Amps/DACs/DAPs that utilize it. The preset files are in the Fiio .XML format so they can be used with the Windows or MacOS version of their application. I used my K17 to develop and test the presets but to my knowledge they should work with any Fiio product that the DSP application is compatible with. (Please let me know if you have a Fiio product that won't import the files. There is one section of the import file that indicates the product but I'm not sure it matters to the application.)
Here is a link to the Google drive folder containing all presets in a zip file.
I will periodically refresh the files from the OPRA database for changes are new presets as they are added.
To use these presets, just download and extract the zip file, run the Fiio DSP application on Windows or MacOS, select the custom preset you want to use, click 'EQ Import', browse to the file you want to import, click 'EQ Save', select the custom EQ you want to set it to, and that's it. Unfortunately, Fiio doesn't let you set the name of the preset instead of 'Custom1', 'Custom2', etc. but with 10 custom EQs available on the K17, it's easy to load them up with your favorite headphones / IEMs.
Feel free to comment or drop me a message if you find this useful.
