With accurate studio reference sound, you can seamlessly switch between speakers, headphones, and rooms. You can also now make custom adjustments to the target curve in real-time with the new custom target feature. With an applied calibration profile the software sets the frequency response target to be completely flat across all audible frequencies so you can make music that sounds great everywhere. There are quite a few combinations of what type of sound people like and the app is trying to figure it out.In less than 20 minutes you can calibrate your existing studio speakers with a SoundID Reference measurement microphone and calibrate your existing headphones with more than 280 headphone calibration profiles already included in the software as ready-to-use presets. Some people like treble and some people actually don’t like it so much.

“Some people like a lot of bass and some people hate it. “Our taste for sound is genuinely different,” Popelis said. The next step involves what Popelis calls “preference optimization,” which involves comparing samples of music that sound slightly different to home in on your audio likes and dislikes. Sonarworks co-founder and chief product officer Martins Popelis told me that the first stage of the SoundID process does for consumers what Reference 4 does for musicians: It removes the “sound signature” of a given set of headphones (more than 360 makes and models are listed in Sonarworks’s database, including Apple AirPods) to “establish studio reference sound…which happens to be the same sound that artists actually hear in the studio.”

Sonarworks’s desktop SoundID Listen app works in tandem with the SoundID mobile app (pictured), which lets you create a personalized SoundID audio profile.īesides its SoundID and legacy True-Fi software, Sonarworks is also responsible for Reference 4, a software suite that allows recording artists to calibrate their headphones and studio monitors to deliver true reference sound.

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