AutoEq is a project for automatically equalizing headphones. While this project is now familiar to many people engaged in headphone hobby, it has always been a bit of a pain to use if you want anything else than the pre-computed presets.
autoeq.app is a web app using AutoEq but now with a graphical user interface in the browser without needing to install anything yourself. All the same features and power that has made AutoEq great is now available on any device in your browser. The main driver behind developing a web app was to give an easy way for users to tweak their experience and not needing to settle for the single preset.
It's well know at this point that the preferred bass and treble levels are very individual and therefore should always be optimized. There are a lot more than those two though and I encourage you to explore the advanced parameters in the app. The player in the app simulates whatever equalizer app you choose so that you can quickly tweak and compare different profiles without needing to alwyas import them to the eq app.
You can even create completely custom changes to the frequency response target with sound signature or copy a sound signature from another headphone to simulate (roughly) other headphones on your single pair.
A fair bit of design, development and testing has gone into this app but no doubt there are still problems and room for improvement. Please share your opinions and discoveries and I'll take them to consideration for future updates.
I've also updated all measurements in the same release so all the data you have in the app (and the Github repo) are now the latest and greatest from all supported sources.
I started using AutoEQ for the 1st time today, and am so glad to discover there is a thread here, started by you. I had already sent you a gushing accolade via private conversation, on this forum.
I have been researching DSP to improve the sound of speakers and headphones for years, but yours is pretty good. Best I have heard. What I think is more pertinent, besides the technology, is to focus on the results, and how the human being perceives the changes.
Cumulatively, I have been listening to my headphones (IEM's in my case) for about one hour, and the thing I can say is this. I have never heard such a huge difference between songs, I am listening to.
Between for example Michael Jackson's Thriller and his other albums, the difference in tone is so shockingly apparent. You almost wonder can this be the same artist.
Secondly the difference in audio levels. The dynamics.
I use Spotify, and have it set to NOT normalise. I should expect that this would play older music quieter, and more recent music louder, cos with the loudness wars, things got louder over the ages. Today was the 1st time I had to deliberately increase the volume on my listening device, when I went from some more recent music to Micheal Jacksons Thriller. And today was the day I noticed a huge massive difference in volume/audio level, between an advert on Spotify, and when the next song from Thriller was played. The advert was louder, much louder.
I cannot measure it (well I can, but not with my ears), but something interesting is happening in your correction, worth a lot more of my time to investigate and learn to use optimally.
Whatever you are doing, I'd definitely like to become adept at using.
Thanks for such a remarkable tool
One question. On the github, I can see which headphones a contributor has measured, but can I view who has submitted a measurement for a specific headphone, in case there are more than one, so I can try out the different EQ corrections, from these multiple measurements of the same headphone.
