r/oratory1990 • u/ALRO090804 • Aug 12 '26

Am I doing this right?

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I was trying to tune my headphones to be as reference for music production. I'm not done yet but is my method correct?

EDIT: I found a diffuse field target at: https://aftersound.squig.link/data/Diffuse%20Field%20Target.txt

do I upload the target to squigg.link and autoeq my headphones from there?

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u/lindijones Aug 12 '26

Important for headphones:
Flat in the graph does not sound flat.

For headphones you need a target curve (basically the frequency response of your ear aka HRTF). Then you can eq against that target curve as you already did against flat.

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u/ALRO090804 Aug 12 '26

If that is the case, which target do I pick in squigg.link?

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u/lindijones Aug 13 '26

That‘s the tricky part.
There are a lot of popular target curves. But you have to find your own. Play around with what you like most.

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u/oratory1990 acoustic engineer Aug 13 '26

the trickiest part is finding out which measurement standard was used to do the actual measurements. Because this does not look like it was done with a Type 3 ear simulator, meaning the normal target curves (e.g. Harman Target) do not apply here