EQ App for Overall iPhone System

I hear you Plaxico. Apple has historically been doing a terrible job on the audio front. It took them 11 years to make a marginal improvement to their ear buds. It's ridiculous that a company with that much cash is unwilling to invest in high end audio. It would be like if Bentley sold their cars with their own branded tires that performed like those assembled on the model T. Apple, since you obviously cannot engineer good speakers, try partnering with a company that does.

Oh, and one other thing- lets make sure that architecture of IOS does not constrain audio adjustment. The current presets (which only apply to the music app) belong on a Playskool music player. Adults prefer to adjust sound, not toggle arbitrary music genre settings and ambiguously named sound schemes. Deep? Deep what? Actually, Playskool might have more colors to choose from. Can't sound any worse than IOS audio with the amazing mono audio on my $700 ipad. Good thing they got around to stereo with the ipad mini and not the latest new ipad.

Apple needs to create a Vice President of Technology Standards because as they work to advance on new highly advanced technology, they are continuing to neglect the best standards that have been set in older technologies. As a result, the consumer ends up with an inferior basic tech (audio) that has been neglected by the focus of the advanced tech (retina display). The finished product will never be truly polished if they continue to operate this way.

I'm not anti-Apple. I really want them to make great sound. Steve Jobs was a perfectionist in many areas, and I feel it would be honoring his legacy if Apple made it their mission to work on creating the best audio from all their devices.

I just got a new iPhone 6 Plus. It *****. I have had a Droid for the past 8 years. However, I have supported Apple products since I can remember. I had a Verizon Droid, then Droid 2, then AT&T Samsung Note 3 (best phone), and now finally a Sprint iPhone 6 Plus. They could not get a Samsung Note 4 or Motorola Nexus 6 so I got an iPhone 6 Plus. Forget that I could not get any of my apps from google play, but I couldn't find any good free apps. Free apps in Apple Store suck. They are almost completely useless. They have several Google apps that have EQs that will play Pandora, Beats, or anything that comes out the bluetooth, audio jack, or on board speaker. NONE of the Apple apps do this! NO good alarm programs, EQs, Moon Reader Pro, etc... I made a mistake. I will see how long I can stick to this. I wish there were excellent apps that someone could convince me to get, but the EQ just shot most of it down.

That is a great post.

I agree with you. Some brilliant young designer should be able to solve this. Possibly by not altering any other app, but simply modifying the output signal of the headphone jack or the Bluetooth signal.

The kind of thinking "you're just out of luck" and suggests that what you want is ludicrous- shows a person who is not creative and lacks imagination.

Ok, then i think youre in bad luck my friend. What you ask of is that one app should play the music and another app should alter the sound from that app. What i know, thats not possible on any device running iOS.

Unfortunately, it looks like we'd be stuck with the genre streams they provide. As far as I can tell, there is no (non-jailbreak) way to have an overall EQ for all iOS audio: every EQ app seems to limit you to sounds played through the app, whether from your library or from the app's proprietary streams, so no EQ'd Pandora or Spotify or Digitally Imported or … :-(

Sitting here listening to Pandora on some nice earphones, this truly does suck. All this cpu power, and no equalizer.

At least in my old truck, I can use the el-cheapo eq on the head unit to adjust the sound. The original poster might have some luck plugging their iphone into their component equalizer.

Might be inconveninet to lug that equalizer around while jogging though. 🙂

Does Android have this sort of functionality? Its exactly the sort of thing I'd look for - hey, a feature I'd like is missing, can I write it myself? With apple stuff, no way, they don't let you. But can you do that with android? Might be worth switching if so.

Android has many EQ apps that work independently of the source player. Also, it doesn't matter whether the output is through the headphone jack, or Bluetooth. I use it for all of my audio: Youtube, Spotify, podcasts, and my built in player.

This is one reason I found this thread. I'm looking for an EQ that works like it does on my Android. I guess I'm out of luck. I couldn't find the "Boom" app that was mentioned. Could someone post the developer name? Just searching "Boom" turns up too much stuff that has nothing to do with sound.

The problem isn't with iphone it is with pandora's player. Because it has exclusive control over what it plays and does not allow any other app to play it even on a computer you are at the mercy of their sound unless you go through the stereo you are playing through and adjust there. The EQi app also has it's own streaming music service with a subscription though.

The problem is that you can't install an EQ that is separate from a player app. On my android I can play Pandora, and adjust the levels with a separate app. If it were possible to process the sound after it leaves a player app, and before it gets to the output, I can only imagine that someone would have made that EQ already. This leaves me thinking that there is a system problem, not an app problem. Why should every player have to have it's own EQ built in? That's just bloated code.

Hah, yes, I recently relented to my wife and got a 6 after 6 years with Android. I don't absolutely hate it, but it's definitely less convenient on various fronts, and the unavailability of EQ apps that can be used universally is only the latest annoyance. Probably back to Android once I get a couple years' worth out of it.

I’m looking for an overall eq app for my iPad Pro but can’t find one. However I did find a overall app for my iMac called eqMac it really works but not great but it does eq sound pretty good. Doesn’t work well with movie or games but if just listening to streaming music works fine. I definitely want an app for my iPad.

Apple wants to force you to use their iTunes, so they limit the use of the equalizer to their product. This is exactly why I have only ever bought Android phones...if it wasn't for my employer provided work phone (iPhone), I wouldn’t even be commenting. Even the factory settings on my Samsung are better than the tinny sound from the iPhone, as if Apple purposely gave us this horrible sound to force us into iTunes.

This kind of manipulation never works. Just ask all of the people using Microsoft. Many people have downloaded Firefox web browsers because Explorer forces you to use Bing, rather than Google. Apple’s pigheadedness was especially prevalent when it came to expanding the size of the screen...a decision that has kept me a proud Samsung owner ever since I’ve owned a smartphone. Good luck Apple. With Steve jobs no longer at the helm, you better start realizing that meeting customer expectations is more important than force feeding them garbage.

Not according to info in the App Store.