Have you measured your headphones after correcting them with Sonarwork?

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  1. Darsus

    Darsus Insatiable bowels - Member

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    I was always curious how accurate Sonarworks is, since my manual correction with SineGen gives me a bit different results, but that also might depend on my ear canal.

    Have you ever tried to measure headphones after Sonarworks correction?
     
  2. Lyander

    Lyander Official SBAF Equitable Empathizer

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    This is a very random necro but I was looking through old threads and came across this. I actually did this for the HE-4XX and HD600, haha. Measurements are from 2020, I've just had the squiggles on my drive so I'm not sure why I didn't reply to this sooner-- I guess I just missed it:

    HD600 on top, HE-4XX below. BLUE for stock headphone measurements, RED for the basic Sonarworks compensation, GREEN for Sonarworks's B&K compensation. Measured on a MiniDSP EARS with a custom compensation more or less based on the SBAF EARS comp. The HE-4XX had some wear on the pads and the HD600s here had 4 year-old pads (those same pads measured here are now over 7 years old and I'm due to change them but eh):

    Feels like the Sonarworks comp is a bit too upper-mids-happy for me personally, so I didn't miss it when my trial expired. Should also note that I used 1/48th octave smoothing since the treble on the HE-4xx was very fuzzy.

    Sennheiser HD600:
    HD600 sonarworks.png

    Massdrop x HiFiMAN HE-4XX:
    HE4xx sonarworks.png

    Addendum, I should point out that I think I flubbed the HE4XX measurement in the Sonarworks sample for some reason or other. Here's a less scuffed Left/Right of the same headphones where I made sure to get decent seals on each run. These are averages of 5 placements per channel like how Tyll's old measurements were:

    HE4xx LR Average.png
     
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