This thread is for all questions about EQ / Equalizing

On the document it says to put it on what you like, but I am wondering what the maximum would be for ideal quality. I do like bass so wouldn't mind some more than 5.5 but not sure what is a reasonable amount or not. Thanks.

I have read that the Meze 105 AER is about 80-90% of the 109 pro, but with the 105AER sounding this good, at less than half the price, I can’t think of why you would spend more.

This coming from a person who owns Focal Clear mgs and Arya Organics (among others).

I did not know they would sound (and feel) this good!

I am not an audiophile, but these sound very good as I put them through their paces.

I went to find an EQ from oratory1990 but there doesn’t seem to be one for the regular edition. So if anyone has one that better follows the SPL Frequency Response curve I’d like to see what your EQ settings are.

I’d be using Equalizer APO/ Peace Equalizer (I probably sound dumb ik)

MY MAIN USES WOULD BE FOR GAMING/MUSIC

So, if anyone here has any EQ setting they’d like to share it would be appreciated.

I'm the developer of Discata, a music player for iPhone. I'm posting here because it is built around correcting headphones, and I'd like feedback from people who care about that.

It plays files you own, offline, not streaming apps. Formats are MP3, AAC/M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF.

For the sound:

- 8,849 AutoEq headphone correction profiles. Search for your headphones; it remembers the profile per output.

- A parametric EQ with up to 32 bands and a draggable curve, plus a 10-band graphic EQ

- Crossfeed

- Six virtual 8D rooms gathered from freely available open-source research

- Loudness normalisation to -14, -16 or -18 LUFS, with a true-peak limiter

- A "Sound On / Original" switch on Now Playing, so you can compare the processed sound with the original file

There is no account and no analytics of my own.

It is free with ads (one short ad card after about every 7 minutes, only between songs). A one-time purchase, £9.99 in the UK, removes them for good.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/discata/id6817341697

Which headphones or features are missing? I'd like to know before I decide what to build next.

Was just messin' around, heard it, thought I liked it, and thought I'd share.

Preamp: -10.5 dB

Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 100 Hz Gain 14.5 dB Q 0.300

Filter 2: ON PK Fc 100 Hz Gain -6.0 dB Q 0.300

Filter 3: ON PK Fc 400 Hz Gain 1.5 dB Q 1.000

Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1100 Hz Gain -2.5 dB Q 1.500

Filter 5: ON PK Fc 2000 Hz Gain 3.0 dB Q 3.000

Filter 6: ON PK Fc 2500 Hz Gain 4.0 dB Q 2.000

Filter 7: ON PK Fc 3000 Hz Gain -2.0 dB Q 1.000

Filter 8: ON PK Fc 3500 Hz Gain 3.0 dB Q 3.500

Filter 9: ON PK Fc 5500 Hz Gain -5.5 dB Q 2.500

Filter 10: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain 2.0 dB Q 1.000

[Repost from r/headphones]

Hey there, used to rock a pair of superlux hd 660 pro, decided it was time for them to go and went back towards gaming and picked up a pair of Hyperx Cloud Alphas, sound is a bit of a nostalgia hit from the times i used to play only on gaming headphones, but the Superlux 660 Pro had such great sound separation, awesome positioning and so on. Loved the headphones even without EQ done to them.

Now looking to go back into that area and saw some options, the Sennheiser HD400S and the Audio Technica ATH-M20X. What do you guys think and what are your opinions?

I'm mainly looking for something that is wired, great sound separation and positioning (as much as you can get in that budget), comfortable and closed back. I currently live in Romania so a lot of really niche brands might not be available for purchase here.

Thank you so much in advance.

Hi, I have recently purchased the Moondrop Edge 2 because, owning the UCTS on ear tws and loving the tuning, I was curious how it would sound in headphones and the edge 2 seems to be the latest or maybe even the only over ear one that advertises using their in house developed B&K 5128 measured VDSF Natural Timbre Tuning preference curve.

I’ve had it for a couple of days now and while the build and quirky things like the fixed-axis frame(rigid yokes/non-swiveling yokes) made me question whether this was a botched product at first, I put my preconceptions aside and so far, my impressions are that … I can’t get enough of it!

To my ears, it sounds closer to the Rtings curve than harman in both bass and treble and I feel it might be sitting somewhere in between the 2, having strong bass but less emphasised than harman and less rolled off treble than harman but possibly not as emphasised as Rtings.

Honestly, I’ve never heard tuning so well balanced before in any headphone I’ve tried, wired and wireless, not without eqing it first and even then, I feel I prefer it to Harman, Rtings and others I’ve tried so far…

I listen to different genres too and this seems to work great for all of them. To give you an idea, I put this Apple Music Best Of playlist together to try songs I know well and like from various genres and I feel it works well with all of them: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/best-of/pl.u-8aAVXLaHo9kzWd1

I’ve attached a screenshot of the stock tuning vs their 4128/4195 VDSF Target response for reference.

I’m curious to find out if others have tried it and what you thought of it.

Thanks

Hi, and apologies if this has been answered before, I did not find it… I was trying to download the hd560s oratory1990 preset from https://opra.roon.app/products/sennheiser::hd560s?profile=oratory1990_harman_target&visible=oratory1990_harman_target but I noticed that in both the web ui and the apo txt file download, some values are different from the pdf:

Filter: ON PK Fc 4350 Hz Gain -3.0 dB Q 5.00 - in the pdf Q is 6

Filter: ON PK Fc 1200 Hz Gain -2.2 dB Q 1.40 - pdf has gain -2.2

Filter: ON HS Fc 9000 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 0.71 - pdf has gain -2

I attached a screenshots of the UI and pdf as well

Is opra using older versions of the profiles?

Thanks

Hello, I recently bought the DT770 Pro X and a JCALLY JM6 pro dac, bought it based on a recommendation from a user here on Reddit.

But even after applying the Oratory 1990 EQ preset, I still hear distortion and annoying sounds at high volumes.

Is it the DAC's fault, or is there something else I'm missing?

i am not an expert, just a casual user.

Thanks in advance

Hi does Anyone have eq settings for the Sony WH 720N, i couldnt seem to find the eqs for them if anyone has them can u pls share...

So just looking for some suggestions and opinions here. I’ve never eq’d before so I found this page and applied the 1990 standard profile to my hd560s using the Fiio eq app. If anyone else here has a Fiio m21 and applies this eq profile what do you usually have your gain and volume level out of 120 set to ? I for sure hear the difference from no eq at all to this profile I just feel like some of the detail is still muffled depending on track. I do realize it could just be a track/mastering issue but just curious for opinions too. I’ve only listened for maybe a half hour after applying the profile. Also thank you for the profile as well, I think I will thoroughly enjoy it once I get use to it and get the correct volume.

Apparently in 2023, hd560s has undergone silent change that made oratory 1990 EQ obsolete. Is there a new EQ for hd560s? Should we even EQ it?

Version 2026.10.08 fixes “Third-party AUv3 plug-ins did not appear under Plugins” and with this fix we can now use the Toneboosters Morphit plugin to apply 6 target curve eqs including Harman AE/OE, Studio, HiFi(usually my favourite) and Diffuse Field(pretty sure this is a typo and it’s really their commute target) as well as other AUv3 plugins system wide and even simulate other headphones!

Never thought I’d see the day, but here it is and we have Masahiro Sato https://github.com/satomasahiro2005 to thank for this! Many Thanks!

Happy listening!

I have a severe hearing loss (about 55-60 %) due to neuritis. I love the music but streaming through the hearing aids it's the most awful experience for a music lover. Listening through common headphones isn't an option for me too. I needed a very good headphones that can play the music with the perfect quality and without any distortions when I use an equalizer to compensate my hearing loss. That's why I bought HIFIMAN Edition XV open headphones and iFi ZEN DAC 3 amplifier. I listen to my music with the DAC's Power match and XBass buttons turned on. I have already installed Equalizer APO and Peace on my PC, but I don't know if it's the best software stack for me. I don't have any knowledge of audiology and I don't know how to set up my equalizer to compensate my hearing loss according to both my audiogram and my headphones' audio profile. That's why I would like to ask somebody to help me telling me the appropriate settings so that I can be able to hear and feel the magic of the music truly again.

Bellow are my audiogram details about pure tone audiometry (air conduction) for both ears.

Frequency (Hz) | Right Ear (dB) | Left Ear (dB)

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125 | 25 | 20

250 | 40 | 40

500 | 55 | 50

1000 | 60 | 55

2000 | 50 | 45

4000 | 55 | 50

8000 | 50 | 50

Habe mir diese Kopfhörer bestellt.
Die alten Einstellungen vom Fiio JT1 passen überhaupt nicht. Welche Einstellungen benutzt ihr um es ein bisschen aufzupeppen.
Ich spiele die Musik Mit dem Fiio JM21 in der Fiio Musik App ab.

I got these clip-on headphones but they are niche, and I couldn't find any Harman-like tunes for them.

Luckily I was able to find an SPL frequency response image of how they behave but no raw data.

Additionally using some tools I was able to digitize it somewhat into .csv data that can be plugged into AutoEQ (the website), but the tune it throws at me while it sounds great seems too aggresive with a preamp of -12.49 db

Preamp: -12.49 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105.0 Hz Gain 11.1 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 33.0 Hz Gain 1.2 dB Q 2.98
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 67.1 Hz Gain 3.0 dB Q 2.69
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1688.6 Hz Gain 1.0 dB Q 1.38
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 3199.8 Hz Gain -11.7 dB Q 4.04
Filter 6: ON PK Fc 4145.4 Hz Gain 4.0 dB Q 4.85
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 5409.5 Hz Gain 2.9 dB Q 6.00
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 6329.7 Hz Gain -7.0 dB Q 5.94
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 8591.2 Hz Gain -2.9 dB Q 2.51
Filter 10: ON HSC Fc 10000.0 Hz Gain 6.8 dB Q 0.70

so I'm left wondering what can be done to get a proper, decent tune with all I gathered

and no, I am sadly unable to send my headphones to u/oratory1990 :(

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as for the csv data (probably not 1:1, but close enough to the graph), here it is.

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Finally, worth noting that these headphones are a bit different to tune because of their design
but any help is much appreciated!

I found a preset for these headphones but it is only for them with ANC turned on. Would it make that big of a difference from the intended sound.

For anyone getting their system wide PEQ on iPhone from dongles and not yet aware, like myself until today, an app called EffectDeck is now available in iOS 27.

It runs EffeTune effects and has over 100 of them including 15 band PEQ. A dream come true I’d say, for anyone using iPhone to stream music so thought I’d share in case there are others that are unaware.

Effects docs can be found here: https://effetune.frieve.com/docs/plugins/eq.html

Enjoy!