EQK 3.0
Dynamic AI assisted Equaliser- A casual listening revolution
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Dynamic AI assisted Equaliser- A casual listening revolution
137 followers
EQK is the first Mac app with dynamic AI EQ, an equalizer that re-tunes itself per song in real time. Give every app its own EQ, headphone correction, and output device. No virtual drivers, just native macOS audio capture. 10-band parametric Tone Desk, 3,985+ AutoEq headphone profiles, per-app limiter, full signal-chain metering, and a free built-in FLAC player with synced lyrics for the songs that you own. 100% local, no telemetry, no subscription. Tune every app on your Mac.
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EQK 3.0
Launching today
EQK is the first Mac app with dynamic AI EQ - an equalizer that re-tunes itself per song in real time. Give every app its own EQ, headphone correction, and output device. No virtual drivers - just native macOS audio capture. 10-band parametric Tone Desk, 3,985+ AutoEq headphone profiles, per-app limiter, full signal-chain metering, and a free built-in FLAC player with synced lyrics for the songs that you own. 100% local, no telemetry, no subscription. Tune every app on your Mac.
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EQK 3.0
EQK began as a way to make sound enhancement through the equaliser accessible beyond audiophiles- to let the rest of us experience music the way the small minority who know the basics already do.
Most people don't know how much difference an EQ tweak can make to their listening experience. Two things kept them out: the technical, formalised structure of every existing EQ app made the first step overwhelming; and the learning curve was steep enough that meaningful benefit only came after real effort.
EQK solves both. The learning curve, by running an on-device engine that together with Apple Intelligence- dynamically tunes music on the go, learns it side-by-side to apply a more accurate EQ on the second play, and saves the per-song, per-app profile locally. Up to 1,000 songs get their own remembered EQ shape, refreshed every second to twice a second- saved by the app, not downloaded.
The intimidation, by dressing what was otherwise a cerebral process in a UI meant to keep you inside the experience of entertainment, not analysing it.
v3.0 introduces the Optimiser engine. It scans for broken song profiles, incompatible layouts, and anything else that might break the seamlessness of the app.
Since a large part of EQK is made by AI, and the whole thing began as a vibe-coded experiment, the Optimiser is a unique answer to what to do with the creative freedom AI gives us in a short amount of time: use it to accelerate the intelligence and working of the dynamic AI EQ engine itself. Some songs may appear over-EQ'd but the overall response from listeners so far has been phenomenal. The Optimiser doesn't touch code, only broken and incompatible app-created data.
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honestly this looks really solid, the per-app EQ and headphone correction are exactly what i've been missing on mac. one thing though, would be amazing if you could add a quick A/B compare button right on the main panel so i can instantly hear the difference with the AutoEq engaged versus a flat profile without opening a separate window.
EQK 3.0
@farrell_gardner Thanks for the kind words Farrell. Yes we do have a button similar to compare on the top right of both the equaliser section and the headphone correction section. If you click on “Bypass” you will be able to instantly hear the raw original sound of the app. We totally get how this nomenclature is unique to the audiophile community and given the nature of the app will consider something that displays its function to the general user better.