By contrast, headphones remove the acoustic environment as a variable in the monitoring chain, so in principle, even a cheap pair of headphones could be equalised to provide a neutral-sounding monitor system as long as it doesn’t suffer from serious distortion or time-domain anomalies - and as long as it’s possible to fathom out what EQ curve to apply! Nor can EQ address issues that arise from compromises in speaker design, such as port resonance and crossover distortion. Problems with speaker-based monitoring are mostly caused by standing waves and other acoustic issues in the room, and while equalisation might improve matters for a single listening position, it can’t properly solve these problems. In some ways, correcting headphone frequency response through equalisation is arguably more worthwhile than doing the same with loudspeakers. Compared with other products that do the same thing, however, it has a unique selling point, in that it’s intended to correct the frequency response of headphones as well as loudspeakers.
In fact, Reference has even outlasted the Sony headphones that were supplied with the review copy, and which eventually wore out through daily use! For those who haven’t encountered Reference before, it is a system that applies a detailed EQ curve to the output from your DAW in order to compensate for deficiencies in a specific monitoring chain and environment. It’s been nearly three years since I first encountered Sonarworks’ Reference software, and it has been an essential part of my life ever since.
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Sonarworks’ headphone and monitor correction software has spread its wings outside the DAW, and now encompasses more headphone models than ever.
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