Sonarworks Headphone Calibration software

[rutter]

Will there be mobile support with Reference 4 eventually?

 

[Roll]

Will there be mobile support with Reference 4 eventually?

From what I gather, no mobile for Reference 4. The Ref 4 is for a different market than the audio headphone listening group...

 

[rutter]

That's interesting. I really don't see a point to Reference, even if you're a producer. It's also funny to me how with Reference you can tone up and down the treble but having to tilt the lower frequencies in the opposite direction whereas with True-Fi you can tone up the treble by pretending you're older without affecting other frequencies but can't tone it down. Seems like they have some work to do to make more sense out of things. I think I'll have to go with True-Fi. The only thing giving me pause is that it's only a standalone application without plug-ins, right? Can you make the standalone application work fine with the sort of programs you'd use plug-ins?

 

[dwinnert]

I am off this week so was goofing around and picked up a pair of ATH-M50X's on sale at Guitar Center. Always curious how they sounded as they are so polarizing. Seems like people either like them or hate them. Also wanted to try True-Fi and none of my current headphones had profiles, so I was able to kill two birds with one beer.

Anyhow, I like the M50X's.....but I really like them using True-Fi.

But, how hard would it be to just make your own EQ profile? Or is True-Fi doing some other type of magic that an EQ cannot duplicate?

 

[rutter]

But, how hard would it be to just make your own EQ profile? Or is True-Fi doing some other type of magic that an EQ cannot duplicate?

Money questions. I already bought True-Fi but very much wondering about this. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't doing anything awfully special.

 

[thecrow]

I am off this week so was goofing around and picked up a pair of ATH-M50X's on sale at Guitar Center. Always curious how they sounded as they are so polarizing. Seems like people either like them or hate them. Also wanted to try True-Fi and none of my current headphones had profiles, so I was able to kill two birds with one beer.

Anyhow, I like the M50X's.....but I really like them using True-Fi.

But, how hard would it be to just make your own EQ profile? Or is True-Fi doing some other type of magic that an EQ cannot duplicate?

nothing wrong with the athm50x

great value for money - solid build, cable options

 

[Mr H]

oh crap
is the summer sale over?

 

[Richter Di]

My Reference 4 Headphone Edition couldn’t be started anymore. Windows said that the progam could suddenly not be found. So de-installed and re-installed. Now my licence code does not work any longer. What
Anybodyelse with similar problems?

 

[sup27606]

I am not sure what’s happening, but the true-fi software is crashing 70% of the time when used in conjunction with Audirvana. This seems to be happening every time I start a song that doesn’t match the sampling rate of the previous one being played. I don’t think I tweaked any settings in Audirvana except select the resampling algorithm to SoX and setting forced upsampling to 2x. I was really considering buying it since it made some subtle but noteworthy improvements to my Sennheiser 6xx. Has anyone else experienced this or have any suggestions to fix. I will take it up next with the company.

As for the impression, What it did to the 6xx was introduce the sub-bass where it was non-existant before, lower a mid bass hump (less cuppy vocals) and filled in some dips in the treble region. This has the effect of improving the ambient sounds in the recording like the brushing of clothes and smacking of lips of the artists that increase realism and resolution. Also the better extension of the treble means better imaging, texture and sparkle in classical recordings. Interestingly, the treble improvements are accomplished without sacrificing the smoothness of the 6xx at all, in any of the variety of recordings I listened, from the newest to the late 50’s. Please note, all the above improvements are subtle, not night and day, but it just takes you beyond those few extra miles that opens up a new arena of realism. The very subtle differences with a flat frequency response also shows, how natural sounding the 6xx is to begin with, with the right amps of course.

If this works without crashing most of the time, it would be a winner in my view.

 

[rutter]

You're using a Sennheiser 6XX and you're impressed by an improvement in the brushing of clothes and smacking of lips? Are you listening to asmr? That must be one hell of a headphone because the differences I hear with an HD800S and an LCD-X are much less subtle.

 

[sup27606]

That must be one hell of a headphone

Exactly my opinion!

 

[apollogreed]

Just sent in my HD800 for some individual calibration, shipping turned out to be pretty pricey (here from Canada) but oh well, I'm just hoping not to go through what @groovyd went through last year. If all goes according to plan hopefully I'll have properly calibrated cans by the time my new V281 comes in .

I did notice @groovyd sent in his headphones with his custom cables. Were we supposed to do that? Should I have sent in my Impact Balanced cable with my Senns?

 

[groovyd]

Just sent in my HD800 for some individual calibration, shipping turned out to be pretty pricey (here from Canada) but oh well, I'm just hoping not to go through what @groovyd went through last year. If all goes according to plan hopefully I'll have properly calibrated cans by the time my new V281 comes in .

I did notice @groovyd sent in his headphones with his custom cables. Were we supposed to do that? Should I have sent in my Impact Balanced cable with my Senns?

I don't think it makes a big difference. I really just did it for convenience of them having proper connectors for it but I am sure they already do and most likely just use their own cables in their calibration rig.

 

[jaakkopasanen]

I created eq settings for over 700 headphone models and when combined with EqualizerAPO they are sort of budget True-Fi. There is a thread about this here and the project can be found in Github: https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq.

Unfortunately I don't have True-Fi nor any headphones supported by it so I cannot compare it to AutoEQ myself. I would appreciate anyone using True-Fi trying out AutoEQ and reporting back with how they compare and if one is better than the other.

 

[Richter Di]

I created eq settings for over 700 headphone models and when combined with EqualizerAPO they are sort of budget True-Fi. There is a thread about this here and the project can be found in Github: https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq.

Unfortunately I don't have True-Fi nor any headphones supported by it so I cannot compare it to AutoEQ myself. I would appreciate anyone using True-Fi trying out AutoEQ and reporting back with how they compare and if one is better than the other.

Great idea.