VU Meter Studio Remote vs ABX

Your desktop meters, on a second screen. VU Meter Studio Remote mirrors the live meters from the VU Meter Studio desktop app onto your iPhone or iPad over Wi-Fi — turning a spare device into a dedicated meter bridge you can prop up anywhere on your desk. COMPANION APP — REQUIRES VU METER STUDIO This app needs the VU Meter Studio desktop app (Windows or macOS) running on the same Wi-Fi network. Get VU Meter Studio from the Mac App Store or the Microsoft Store. No desktop app yet? Tap "Try demo mode" to preview the meters with sample data. KEY FEATURES Real-time VU metering • Stereo L/R bars with peak hold and smooth decay, mirrored frame-for-frame from the desktop Loudness suite — EBU R128 / ITU-R BS.1770 • Momentary, Short-term and Integrated loudness (LUFS) • Loudness Range (LRA) • True Peak (dBTP) Connects in seconds • Auto-discovers VU Meter Studio on your network • Or connect by hand with the host's IP and port • Optional password protection with a secure challenge-response handshake Demo mode • Preview the meters with realistic sample data — no desktop, no setup required WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Free, with no ads • No account, ever • No cross-app tracking and no advertising ID • Keeps the meters off your main screen and in your eyeline Ideal for mixing, mastering, streaming, podcasting and broadcast monitoring — anywhere you want an accurate, glanceable meter without giving up desktop screen space.

Can you actually hear the difference between lossless and the streams you pay for? ABX finds out the fair way: blind, loudness-matched and scored with real statistics. STREAMING CHECK Pick a track and the services you want to test. ABX encodes the lossless original the way each service streams it (Spotify Premium, High and Normal, Apple Music, YouTube Music and SoundCloud), matches the loudness and hides which is which. You hear A, B and X, and decide whether X is A or B. At the end you get a plain answer: which streams you could hear, and which sounded lossless to you. A FAIR TEST • Loudness-matched, so volume can never give the answer away • Seamless 20 ms crossfades, so a click can't either • X is chosen at random for every guess, and services are shuffled together • Every verdict is a one-sided binomial test, and ABX tells you honestly when a score is consistent with guessing • Exclusive output on Mac takes sole control of your DAC and matches its sample rate HEARING TEST How high can you hear? An adaptive audiogram measures 13 tones from 250 Hz to 20 kHz in each ear. See every reading with a smoothed average, your highest tone in each ear and an indicative hearing age. Levels are relative to your headphones: it's for curiosity, not a medical test. YOUR RESULTS, EXPLAINED • A streaming map of what you can and can't hear • A summary written for you on your device by Apple Intelligence (on supported devices) • Free PDF reports and share cards with every setting and score LISTENING NIGHTS Run a session for your audio club, hi-fi store or friends. Name each listener, keep the same track and services for everyone, and get a group report showing who heard what. FREE, WITH ABX PRO Free: the hearing test, plus a full blind Streaming Check against SoundCloud's 64 kbps stream using the included public-domain recordings. ABX Pro is a one-time purchase, with no subscription. It unlocks: • Every streaming service in one blind session • Your own music: WAV, AIFF, FLAC or Apple Lossless, including hi-res • Advanced codec ladders: MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, Opus and Vorbis from 320 down to 32 kbps • Group sessions and group reports • 3 to 10 guesses per service, exact re-runs and exclusive output on Mac One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac, and works with Family Sharing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Encoding, playback, statistics and reports all run on your device. No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and SoundCloud are trademarks of their respective owners. ABX isn't affiliated with them; each preset uses the service's published codec and bitrate.