Listening devices and phone-speaker mode

What you can hear depends on what you listen on. A 60 Hz boost is obvious on studio monitors and gone on a phone. SoundSense therefore keeps your results per listening device. Your browser can't tell which headphones or speakers are playing, so you name them yourself.

Name a device

1. On the dashboard, under Training Modules, tap the chip Which device are you listening on? Once a device is in use it reads Listening on: … with its name.
2. In the Listening device sheet, under Add a device, give it a Name — for example "studio headphones". Use a name for the gear, no personal names. At most 40 characters.
3. Pick its Type and press Save. A new device is the one in use straight away.
4. Later, tap Use next to another device to switch; the one in use reads In use. Done closes the sheet.

The types are: Closed headphones, Open headphones, In-ear monitors, Bluetooth earbuds, Studio monitors, Laptop speakers, Phone speaker and PA / venue. You can keep up to 20 devices. Edit renames a device or changes its type; Delete removes it after a second tap (Delete for good?).

What is kept per device

• Every answer is counted for the device in use.
• Levels in the ladder games are kept per device — see The level ladder and pre-listen. The dashboard card shows "Level 5 / 8" and "on" with the device name.
• 📈 Profile shows a column per device under By listening device: answers, EQ level and EQ mastery. Mastery is compared from 20 answers on a device.

Which device is in use is remembered in this browser only, so a laptop and a phone on the same account each keep their own. The device names, your levels and your results per device sync with your account; the privacy statement lists them. The hearing check is separate: its results stay in this browser.

Phone-speaker mode

Phone speakers play almost nothing below about 400 Hz, and most play only one side. Training on one would bury the low end and the stereo games in guesswork. Phone-speaker mode turns that into a fair test of what a phone can play:

• The sound is mono.
• EQ Recognition asks only between 400 Hz and 10 kHz (from level 5: 800 Hz to 10 kHz). EQ: Shelves asks only high shelves, 2–8 kHz. EQ: Two Moves keeps both moves at 400 Hz and up, with no low cut and no low shelf.
• Bass stems are left out of every game.
• Hidden: the stereo games (Pan, Stereo Width, Phantom Center, Haas Effect, Precedence Effect, Binaural Beats) and EQ: Low Cut — a phone speaker is a low cut already.
• Q width and Name the ring ask from 400 Hz up. EQ Characters hides its low-frequency controls.
• Your scores count for this device only.

It switches on by itself when the device in use has the type Phone speaker — the switch in the sheet then stays on. For any other device you can switch Phone-speaker mode on yourself; that holds for this browser. The chip then shows Phone mode, and the dashboard says "Phone-speaker mode: mono, mids and highs only — the stereo games are hidden."

Laptop speakers and Bluetooth

• Laptop speakers keep stereo. EQ questions start at 200 Hz.
• Bluetooth earbuds have no limits, but the sheet notes that the codec may cut highs above about 15 kHz. For the hearing check, wired headphones are the better choice — see Use the hearing check.