I'd be interested in a low latency headphone amp that is able to load Sonarwarks profiles, preferably multiple profiles and target curves selectable via buttons. At this moment i have 3 situations when ik comes to headphones
1) audio played back from Spotify Youtube and VLC, mostly for referencing, i have to switch presets in systemwide from my speakers to headphones.
2) audio from my DAW i have instances of the SoundID plugin on different monitorbusses, this works well by itself
3) live audio coming from the mixer application on my interface, there is no instance of sound ID or any other form of correction in this scenario. Running the live audio throught systemwide while still using the mixer app (UA Console, with plugins and all) would be complicated and induce latency of which i'm not sure i could accept.
4) mixing live recordings on headphones on location, on a mixer probably somewhere in a dressing room. Right now there's no way to use correction software
For my speakers i will probably switch to a newer generation of Neumanns with their own DSP and software for correction.
For headphones, the described headphone amp with DSP would work for al these cases.
Looking furher than my own user case: I've been looking into headphones with a very good low end and came across hifi forums where some of the users were EQ'ing their headphones. These users might be future customers if you develop a device like this
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Hi Sebastiaan De Rooij, thanks for your post and feature request, it is really appreciated!
At the moment, a headphone amp with integrated DSP able to run Sonarworks calibration profiles is not on our roadmap for the near future, but we'll take note of your feedback as we continue working on epxanding our integration partners. Thanks for sharing :)