Audeze HQ vs SXFI App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audeze HQ
Customize audio settings for your headphones. Adjust EQ, save presets, and fine-tune game/chat balance. Personalize sound to match your preferences and requirements.
- 10-band EQ adjustment
- Save up to four EQ presets
- Six built-in EQ presets
- Adjust sidetone level
- Configure game/chat mix
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With Maxwell, Audeze HQ enables you to adjust the 10-band EQ, and save up to four presets, or choose from the six built-in presets. You can also adjust sidetone level, game/chat mix, and much more. Tailor the sound and functions of Maxwell to suit your taste and needs.
SXFI App
This app uses advanced technology to map your unique ear and head shape, transforming audio for a personalized, immersive listening experience. Enjoy holographic sound that feels like it's coming from outside your headphones, with customizable EQ settings for local music files.
- Super X-Fi holographic audio
- AI-powered head and ear mapping
- Tailor-made audio profiles
- Local music file playback
- 10-band equalizer
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Imagine capturing the listening experience of a high-end multi-speaker system in a professional studio, and recreating the same expansive experience - with the original depth, detail, realism, and immersiveness – in your headphones. Welcome to the magic of Super X-Fi with SXFI App! Super X-Fi technology works by mapping the head and ear shape, and transforming audio based on those parameters, for the individual. It allows you to experience audio as if it’s coming from outside the headphones, and the headphones seemingly disappear! Leveraging on leading-edge precision technology that maps the distinct acoustics of an audio system projecting sound to the human ear in three-dimensional space, the SXFI App utilizes Super X-Fi technology to deliver a holographic audio experience that intelligently translates that complex information into an identical breath-taking listening experience for the headphones. In addition, everybody hears sound differently in the real world, depending on the shape of one's ears and structure of the head. The SXFI App’s Super X-Fi technology further uses Artificial Intelligence to map the individual's ear shape and head profile, then utilizes a computationally complex algorithm to transform and custom tailor the audio to each individual, so that it sounds perfect to each and every one, and like what they hear in the real world. Key Features: * Built-in Super X-Fi technology lets you magically experience audio as if it’s coming from outside your headphones. * Easy-to-use smart device camera-enabled head mapping that captures your unique ear and head features for a tailor-made audio profile--get the most natural headphone listening experience! * Supports playback of local music files stored in your device. * 10-band Equalizer for further audio customization. Need help? Talk to us at team@sxfi.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Audeze HQ at none against SXFI App's shown. Audeze HQ also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). SXFI App's advantage is rating (2.1 vs 1.7) and review sentiment (23% vs 14%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SXFI App holds the better App Store score, 2.1 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 42 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Audeze HQ's written reviews are positive against 23% of SXFI App's.
Audeze HQ ships an update every 3 weeks, SXFI App monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audeze HQ | SXFI App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (96 ratings) | 2.1 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.6% of reviews | 23.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 42 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Audeze LLC | Creative Labs Pte. Ltd. |
Customer experience
Audeze HQ
SXFI App
In-app purchases
Audeze HQ
No in-app purchases
SXFI App
No in-app purchases








