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Sonarworks' headphone calibration app adds support for Apple, Bose models
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. To create a profile on SoundID, you need to choose one of the supported headphone models and then listen to a few samples.
Sonarworks brings its SoundID audio customization to Mac and Windows
With a mobile app, you create a personalized sound profile that fits your preferences based on a selection of audio clips. Once you’ve made your picks, SoundID creates a custom profile that’s unique to you — right down the pattern of icons inside the app. Today, Sonarworks revealed SoundID Listen on desktop, so the customization is actually useful for the first time.
Sonarworks brings a personal touch to headphone calibration
Sonarworks has been helping people improve the audio from its headphones since 2018. The company's True-Fi app is loaded with more than 300 headphone-sound profiles that tune the model you're wearing so it's closer to what the producer heard in the studio. Sonarworks built its reputation by creating calibration software for studio monitors and headphones, so it knows a thing or two about audio correction. Despite offering some customization options on top of the profiles, the company admits that True-Fi never took off, so it went back to the drawing board and created SoundID.
Dirac claims its software can improve the sound of any headphones
The best headphones aren't perfect. In fact, I doubt that any company will ever make a set that are entirely without flaws. That's not because one of them does anything wrong per se, but mostly due to the fact that everyone's taste is different. Even when you find a set you really like, you probably wish there was a little more bass or a little less treble or you had the ability to manually tweak the EQ in a way that made a noticeable difference. Companies like Sony, Jabra, Sennbeiser and many more have apps that allow you to make adjustments, but even then, if you're like me, you still want more.
