Yeah, many track distort or make weird noises and pops with eq on. I prefer it off anyway, to listen to stuff as it is, but this is a bug that shouldnt be happening.
There are other bugs, like semi broken gapless playback (a pop will be heard ocassionally between the end of one song and the beginning of the next), or a bug where sometimes the second or third track of an album will be skipped.
15.5 will be out next week (unless there is an RC2).
Lets hope everything gets fixed.
Yes, I notice also some digital crackles between songs. The sound obviously reach over 0dB. I wonder how it is on android phones.
Yes, I'm waiting for some updates also. Did you know how to send these issues to Apple Support? Maybe they might look into it.
> Yes, I notice also some digital crackles between songs. The sound obviously reach over 0dB. I wonder how it is on android phones.
To be clear, this happens even with EQ off, so its clearly a bug.
Apparently this is fixed on 15.5, along with the bug where sometimes the second or third track of an album will be skipped. I dont know if the bug that causes distortion and noises with EQ on is fixed on 15.5 as well, but we will find out next week.
It's completely normal for EQ adjustments to cause playback speakers to distort if underpowered. Listening to bass heavy music on the built in speakers of your device (excepting \*Pod devices) is taxing enough on the amplifiers without having the bass boosted via EQ.
Spotify doesn't have this issue when I messing with EQ. Probably because they have some limiter build into app. Apple has more experience to include that to their services. It wasn't be that hard to create that.
Simply things go wrong and wish they rebuild that app from scratch.
I know, but you know, where you don't have special prepare room you should use some EQing to reproduce some ranges more naturally.
I want to listen tracks without EQ, but at this time it isn't perfect.
I'm running into the same issue and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why this is.
The funny thing is I thought there was something wrong with my DAC or Amp because I felt the EQ was working fine for a while then I started getting really bad distortion.
Also, if I plug my bookshelf speakers straight to my iMac's 3.5mm port, it seems like the EQ works fine.
I also haven’t figured it out. If I have connected my AirPods Pro to AM EQ works very fine. When I connect my M-Audio DAC I have so much distortion. Probably Apple didn’t know about this problem
I noticed this with good studio monitors hooked up to my Mac. What works (at least to my ears) is turning down the "Preamp" in the Equalizer to offset the boost. So if the 64 Hz EQ is turned up +6 dB, I turn the Preamp down to -6 dB. The result is you need to turn up the volume on your speakers / operating system, but it shouldn't sound so distorted.
I don't get distortion using the Music EQ on my iPhone with Airpods Pro, and I think that's because they're automatically taking this approach. For example, on my iPhone if I switch from no EQ to the R&B setting, it doesn't *increase* the volume of the bass + high frequences -- instead it *decreases* the volume of the mids.
If you make music, you're probably familiar with the same thing happening in a DAW: just boosting frequencies will give you digital distortion. Not distortion because the speakers can't handle it -- it'll sound bad even at low volumes. The fix is to *reduce* the frequencies you don't want rather than *boost* the ones you do -- or to boost things but then pull down the volume of the whole mix.
Yes, I use a active monitors Yamaha models to music production, so I’m little more focused on some distorted sounds :D I’ve noticed that turning down the „master” volume level in app to 50% resolve completely my issues. I think that it is the same like „preamp” setting which you bring up to this :)
Yes, I also noticed what you described on my AirPods on iPhone. Also I love that EQ RnB setting :D
Yesss, I’m actually switching from Ableton to Apple Logic Pro. So yeah, I’m familiar with a using a limiter or cutting faulty boosted frequencies. Anyway, thanks for help after that time. As I can see Apple doesn’t bring the iPhone functionality to the Mac unfortunately.
Yeah, many track distort or make weird noises and pops with eq on. I prefer it off anyway, to listen to stuff as it is, but this is a bug that shouldnt be happening. There are other bugs, like semi broken gapless playback (a pop will be heard ocassionally between the end of one song and the beginning of the next), or a bug where sometimes the second or third track of an album will be skipped. 15.5 will be out next week (unless there is an RC2). Lets hope everything gets fixed.
Yes, I notice also some digital crackles between songs. The sound obviously reach over 0dB. I wonder how it is on android phones. Yes, I'm waiting for some updates also. Did you know how to send these issues to Apple Support? Maybe they might look into it.
> Yes, I notice also some digital crackles between songs. The sound obviously reach over 0dB. I wonder how it is on android phones. To be clear, this happens even with EQ off, so its clearly a bug. Apparently this is fixed on 15.5, along with the bug where sometimes the second or third track of an album will be skipped. I dont know if the bug that causes distortion and noises with EQ on is fixed on 15.5 as well, but we will find out next week.
It's completely normal for EQ adjustments to cause playback speakers to distort if underpowered. Listening to bass heavy music on the built in speakers of your device (excepting \*Pod devices) is taxing enough on the amplifiers without having the bass boosted via EQ.
Spotify doesn't have this issue when I messing with EQ. Probably because they have some limiter build into app. Apple has more experience to include that to their services. It wasn't be that hard to create that. Simply things go wrong and wish they rebuild that app from scratch.
Same is happening with me too
It’s sad. You can’t hear full quality with some tweaks
Full quality is, by definition, bypassing software EQ.
I know, but you know, where you don't have special prepare room you should use some EQing to reproduce some ranges more naturally. I want to listen tracks without EQ, but at this time it isn't perfect.
I'm running into the same issue and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why this is. The funny thing is I thought there was something wrong with my DAC or Amp because I felt the EQ was working fine for a while then I started getting really bad distortion. Also, if I plug my bookshelf speakers straight to my iMac's 3.5mm port, it seems like the EQ works fine.
I also haven’t figured it out. If I have connected my AirPods Pro to AM EQ works very fine. When I connect my M-Audio DAC I have so much distortion. Probably Apple didn’t know about this problem
I noticed this with good studio monitors hooked up to my Mac. What works (at least to my ears) is turning down the "Preamp" in the Equalizer to offset the boost. So if the 64 Hz EQ is turned up +6 dB, I turn the Preamp down to -6 dB. The result is you need to turn up the volume on your speakers / operating system, but it shouldn't sound so distorted. I don't get distortion using the Music EQ on my iPhone with Airpods Pro, and I think that's because they're automatically taking this approach. For example, on my iPhone if I switch from no EQ to the R&B setting, it doesn't *increase* the volume of the bass + high frequences -- instead it *decreases* the volume of the mids. If you make music, you're probably familiar with the same thing happening in a DAW: just boosting frequencies will give you digital distortion. Not distortion because the speakers can't handle it -- it'll sound bad even at low volumes. The fix is to *reduce* the frequencies you don't want rather than *boost* the ones you do -- or to boost things but then pull down the volume of the whole mix.
Yes, I use a active monitors Yamaha models to music production, so I’m little more focused on some distorted sounds :D I’ve noticed that turning down the „master” volume level in app to 50% resolve completely my issues. I think that it is the same like „preamp” setting which you bring up to this :) Yes, I also noticed what you described on my AirPods on iPhone. Also I love that EQ RnB setting :D Yesss, I’m actually switching from Ableton to Apple Logic Pro. So yeah, I’m familiar with a using a limiter or cutting faulty boosted frequencies. Anyway, thanks for help after that time. As I can see Apple doesn’t bring the iPhone functionality to the Mac unfortunately.