sonarworks reference 3 headphone calibration

Holy shit! That's a serious Peak/null situation. many thanks to for doing me a huge solid, even though it may cost me some money in the long run! It's like, everything was present in the MH-50x, but it was all more legible in the LCD-X. Sound field felt wider and more spacious and the bottom end was less 'clamped'. The difference was immediately apparent, and although it was not life-changing, it was still definitely significant.

With the MH-50x priced at $150 and the LCD-X priced at $1,700, is the difference worth $1,500? That's a question for another day. I could also pick out the difference between the various sampled hi-hats in Busy Child more easily. With some of my 'bass test tracks' like Groove Armada 'Final Shakedown', The Prodigy 'Diesel Power', and Crystal Method 'Busy Child' it was easier to hear the difference between the three different kick drum layers, separation between little sub hits and the synth bass, etc. Compared to my lowly MH-50x cans, the LCD-X had a lot less cloudy-ness and more separation in the bottom end, a little less clanky harshness in the upper midrange, and a little more legible fizz in the upper highs. On a side note, also let me check out his Audeze LCD-X headphones, and they were pretty darn great. The derived response and correction curves are shown in screen shots below. Now I just need to wrap my brain around how to implement the correction on my stereo monitor output object in a way that will insure I never bounce or print through the correction.

It's a big difference.įor a minute there I was hoping that I could emulate the derived correction using the in-built digital 4-band parametric eq in the Dynaudio AIR system, but the correction needs to stuff like create a boosted range that has different slopes on the left and right sides of bands, so trying to emulate that curve with a 'normal' parametric eq may do more harm than good. It removed major 'boof' and 'boxiness' in the 100hz-150hz range and clank in the upper midrange, added 'juiciness' in the sub bass and 'fizz' in the very high range. But when I finished calibrating my speakers and tried the correction, the difference was pretty serious.

When I tried the software with the supplied profile for my Audio Technica MH-50x headphones, the difference was NOT huge - at least, not huge enough for me to want to deal with implementing the correction as a plugin. He went WAY out of his way to come over to my studio and lend me his calibrated SonarWorks reference mic so I could calibrate my system with the demo version of Reference v4 software.Īnd now my speakers and room sound A LOT better than they did yesterday. Got freaking dang did me a HUGE solid today.

Sonarworks reference 3 headphone calibration