I care about good audio quality when listening to music, but not having the biggest budget I bought myself a pair of Samson SR950 Studio Headphones. Despite the name they are rather cheap for what they offer. They aren’t perfectly balanced of course, which is why I like to play around with equalizers to get a better sound profile.

Unfortunately this particular model was not in the AutoEQ database of presets. As such, I assumed there was no hope and I resorted to eyeballing (or earballing?) the equalizer controls for what sounded nicer to me.

Just today however, I came across an article by Jaakko Pasanen which detailed how to make your own equalizer profiles. Turns out that if you have a frequency response measurement available, converting that data into something you can use in EQ apps across platforms is quite easy.

Following the guide I converted the image of a graph created by Samson (image link) into a .CSV file using the WebPlotDigitizer tool (after being forced to make an account, because of course).

You can download the .CSV file and create your own profile on AutoEQ’s website.

Below are some presets I generated myself if you want a quick download:

The AutoEQ collection is massive but it’s good to learn that creating equalizer presets for your own equipment is this straightforward (provided you have a frequency response graph available).