Simple, effective and cheap
I moved house and the only room I could use for music listening is very lively, wooden floor, not a lot of soft furnishings - everything sounded pretty bad
I used HouseCurve to get an idea of what I was dealing with and decided to upgrade for £15 to get EQ suggestions
Implementing these suggestions via Roon made a huge difference and to be honest it has been much more effective than I would have thought
I appreciate that hardcore hi-fi afficianados will never approve of a lot of DSP processing but all I can say is - it really worked well for me
My wife, who is not a hi-fi buff, instantly noticed something was different and better too
I used HouseCurve to get an idea of what I was dealing with and decided to upgrade for £15 to get EQ suggestions
Implementing these suggestions via Roon made a huge difference and to be honest it has been much more effective than I would have thought
I appreciate that hardcore hi-fi afficianados will never approve of a lot of DSP processing but all I can say is - it really worked well for me
My wife, who is not a hi-fi buff, instantly noticed something was different and better too
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Unreliable
One out of every two to three sweeps actually works. Good app when it functions properly but very unreliable.
Response from developer
Hi there, sorry you're having trouble with measurements. Please reach out to support@housecurve.com or the Facebook group (see app's Help menu) for assistance. You can also check out the extensive documentation at housecurve.com.
So easy even an audiophile could do it.
Get this tool.
Good fun and effective analysis for your hifi curiosities.
Good fun and effective analysis for your hifi curiosities.
Works great with WIIM amp over AirPlay
I was able to use an external Dayton OmniMic (USB mic) plugged into my iPhone USB-C port. Also could read in the OmniMic calibration file, which is a huge bonus. Generated a 10-stage parametric EQ and loaded into the WIIM app. I’ve got fairly high-end speakers so I focused the tuning on the low-end (bass). Sounds great!
Is there a way to use this over (wired) CarPlay? It seems to default to the crappy car mic since the USB-C port is in use, and it would be better to use the internal iPhone mic since it’s compensated.
Overall great app!!
Is there a way to use this over (wired) CarPlay? It seems to default to the crappy car mic since the USB-C port is in use, and it would be better to use the internal iPhone mic since it’s compensated.
Overall great app!!
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Worked perfectly
Much easier than buying a mic of fiddling with REW. App is simple but gets the job done well, documentation by the developer is excellent. Multiple measurements and parametric EQ customization works well, I needed to lower the gain maximum and it recalculated a new PEQ for me. Exported my EQ settings directly into EqualizerAPO and it worked perfectly, and my results passed a blind test as a noticeable improvement! Great app, looking forward to further developer support and updates!
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Not much of a reason to hate this app!
I found out about HouseCurve through an online audio forum I frequent, through a post from the creator and using info from there, and the apps website, I was able to get my Hi-Fi Speaker Setup sounding a heck of a lot better! It’s not pure night and day, but it’s enough of a difference to appreciate a tool like this. Plus with it being as cheap as it is, even with the added $10 purchase, there’s practically no reason to hate this app!
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Easy solution
This is a great tool for checking your speakers and it makes calibration easy!
Great App
Great app, would be nice to download the measured plots to the iPhone to allow offline analysis.
Response from developer
Hello, thanks for the review! With the Tuning Bundle in-app purchase, you can export the measured impulse responses for use in tools like REW, etc. See: https://housecurve.com/docs/manual/plot_setup#saved-measurement. For help, please reach out to support@housecurve.com
Remove your case!
This should be part of the intro, I’ve done some audio recording with an iPhone as a USB mic. They have excellent mics BUT you must remove your case, I tested my recordings with and without my slim simple case and the results were very audible. I also found the back omnidirectional mic sounded the best.
This app seems perfect for my simple uses cases, I’ll probably buy it. The interface is a little cumbersome and limited, hopefully that’s just the free version tho.
This app seems perfect for my simple uses cases, I’ll probably buy it. The interface is a little cumbersome and limited, hopefully that’s just the free version tho.
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Works but use with caution
Leap works. I mean it using the mic and our phones so I’m not sure how effective it will be, but I just downloaded it to play around well I can say he must be very careful with this app. Like me, if you have the volume on your phone and equipment up too high when it plays the sweep it blew 59K worth of Martin Logan speakers in my system. And homes so probably should have used a more professional mic, and definitely checked the volume levels. just thought I would throw this out there to others. This is not anything against the app. Other than they should probably put a warning, but more so people don’t play with the volume up too loud.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! Version 5.1.2 now has a warning that pops up if the iPhone volume is high when a measurement is started. The quick start instructions also say to turn the volume down, but I get that not everyone is going to read them (https://housecurve.com/help), so the warning was a good idea, thanks!
