Add "Ear Fit" feature for eq correction based on in-room hearing test

[rjp]

The WiiM ultra room correction feature, Room Fit, works well. Why not expend this to provide an equalizer curve based on a in-room hearing test?
Kind of the way the latest Apple AirPods hearing aid feature works. Play a series of tones and the listener clicks the button when he hears them. Then build a custom Ear Fit curve for that listener based on his needs. This would open up HiFi enjoyment for people with degraded hearing, which is pretty much everybody eventually. You would make billions! I want a cut.

 

[canard]

A PEQ overlay to add to the one obtained by the roomfit mode?
;-)

 

[Burnside]

Any hearing aid test I've had has involved me wearing custom headphones in a closed soundproofed cabinet. Not exactly "in-room"

 

[rjp]

Possibly. I could see WiiM combining the roomfit correction and the hearing correction into a single set of PEQ filters. An even better solution would be to have a separate stack. One PEQ set for the room (which does not change much), and another PEQ set for the individual listener based on his profile.

 

[canard]

You can have fun estimating it by playing around with in-situ observation using frequency sweeps... This also applies to adapting custom PEQs to headphones... ;-)
(To be perfectly precise... the exercise isn't that simple... and it takes time...)
(In reality, here... generaly, it would just come down to subjectively observing above 1 kHz, for example... and letting Roomfit correct below 300 Hz.)

 

[rjp]

Any hearing aid test I've had has involved me wearing custom headphones in a closed soundproofed cabinet. Not exactly "in-room"

Good point. But WiiM seems very smart. I bet they can find a way to do this with in-room speakers to at least get close enough.
Maybe it would do room fit first to make sure the speakers are producing what they should be at each frequency, and then ask the listener if he can hear a series of tones like in a traditional hearing test? I get the feeling they are innovators and would excel at this.

 

[canard]

"""I get the feeling they are innovators and would excel at this""

Not too much... but they took "time" and "didn't give up," with a great deal, if not primarily, support and expertise from some participants in this forum...*
;-)))
And in the end, even if a few details need refining, it results in a functionality per current in machines of this price, very much for the general public...
Roomfit,
A rare feature for this price...
;-)

(*I should clarify...not me... ;-) )

 

[canard]

ps in reality what you are pointing out is actually an approach concerning essentially the "headphone" approach, personal and "intimate"...
The PEQ mode on the Wiim is a really great opportunity for headphone owners.
By choosing a sweep generator, you can try it out...
(Analog generators, basic ones, are generally quite practical for this kind of thing.)
;-)

 

[Wiimer]

This feature is included in many earbuds apps, but personally, I’ve never found it useful (it’s probably just a basic feature). I’m skeptical of the idea of amplifying sounds that you can’t hear.

I’m not objecting to your suggestion, but if thay’re going to implement it, I want to make sure it actually works.

 

[canard]

There are some things that are a bit more of a priority, or less specific, to develop, or simply to finalize, on the audio side it seems to me... or for example, to finalize the DLNA, etc... "many beta"
;-)
and maybe investigate it ...personally
;-)

Well, anyway... that's just my feeling...

(even the crossfeed function, which I've emphasized quite a bit here, seems like an interesting idea because it would further highlight the appeal of Wiim and their PEQ for headphone enthusiasts, but this remains a rather secondary consideration)

 

[Wiimer]

There are some things that are a bit more of a priority, or less specific, to develop, or simply to finalize, on the audio side it seems to me... or for example, to finalize the DLNA, etc... "many beta"
;-)
and maybe investigate it ...personally
;-)

Well, anyway... that's just my feeling...

(even the crossfeed function, which I've emphasized quite a bit here, seems like an interesting idea because it would further highlight the appeal of Wiim and their PEQ for headphone enthusiasts, but this remains a rather secondary consideration)

Just because thay have stopped developing non-essential features doesn’t necessarily mean that development of essential features will move forward.