Sonarworks' headphone calibration app adds support for Apple, Bose models
SoundID now works with Apple AirPods Pro.
Sonarworks has expanded SoundID’s list of supported headphones with 20 more models, including Apple AirPods Pro, Beats Powerbeats Pro, Bose 700 and a couple of Sennheiser wired headsets. The company introduced SoundID at CES earlier this year, presenting it as an app that can calibrate your headphones and create a sound profile that’s unique to you. The software now supports 406 headphones across various brands.
To create a profile on SoundID, you need to choose one of the supported headphone models and then listen to a few samples. It’ll make you go through multiple rounds of testing, wherein you have to choose from two sound clips that use the same sample with different tunings. The software then analyzes your responses to conjure a personal audio profile for you. Sonarworks says the technology can “calibrat[e] each headphone to deliver sound the way an artist intended in the studio.”
At launch, SoundID was only available for Android and iOS, but Sonarworks released a version for Mac and Windows a few months later. You still need to set up your profile on a phone, but once that’s done, the SoundID Listen app for desktop can apply it to everything you listen to on your computer. SoudID is free on mobile, but the desktop version will set you back $5 per month after a free 30-day trial.
Here’s the list of new headphones the software supports:
Beats Powerbeats Pro
Apple AirPods Pro
Bose Frames Alto
Bose 700
Sennheiser HD 6XX
Sennheiser HD 58X
KZ ZS10 Pro
KZ ES4
KZ ZSN
KZ ZS10
TiN Audio T2 Pro
Shure SE846
RHA S500 Universal
RHA MA390 Universal
MEE audio M6 PRO
RHA MA750 Wireless
RHA T20
1More Dual Driver ANC Pro
Marshall Monitor II A.N.C.
Beyerdynamic Lagoon ANC
Klipsch T5 True Wireless
LG QuadBeat 3
LG EMB
LGE53