After my headphone only version making my speakers sound like crap, I spent my retirement savings on the speaker calibration upgrade with mic. My concern now is that, since my new speaker profile will also account for my specific gear choices before my headphone drivers, cabling etc, will my speakers soon make my headphones sound off? Sonarworks hopefully calibrates the sound out of their headphone tone sweep amp, so that they can't be wrong, even if they only use Fisher-Price gear before the headphones. However, gear before the drivers matters, so after hearing my new speaker sound, will I want a dummy head with 2 mics in the ears, even more than sending my cans with custom cable for individual headphone calibration only?
I'm actually pretty excited now, thinking that my speakers may soon sound more accurate than my average headphone profile does.
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Hello,
Thank you for reaching out!
The aim of the calibration is to acquire a flat profile thus the frequency response between the calibrated speakers and headphones will remain the same - flat. As per the clarity, this depends on the headphone itself as one could be clearer than the other.
For Individual calibration services, you can find more information on our website here.
Hope this helps!
My argument against my headphone curve will be against having an accurate headphone profile, unless I use a dummy head with 2 mics with the rest of my gear before them, and your new headphone with calibration ability license. I would also have to recalibrate both if I change any power cable or anything else in my setup, just like how my monitor shows a new calibration readout after changing a power or data cable. It may be a pain having to recalibrate after every little change, but so far, it's keeping my monitor color accurate, while the better power cable on the pc still improves both audio and video depth and clarity.
So, to clarify my position more simply, will my speaker edition make me wish for a headphone calibration software that uses a dummy head with 2 mics, to improve over what consumers are getting with one time individual headphone calibration that does not take the consumer's gear before them into account?
What is the cost of a dummy head with the 2 little mics? If shipping and customs on top of the cost of Sonarworks staff having to run the calibration process are keeping people from paying for it, a headphone calibration version with the dummy head and 2 mics which people could run on their own front end would be even more accurate for end users. Then people wouldn't have to care about buying supported headphones at all, either.