Headphone EQ

Beats Solo Pro EQ settings for Mac

Last updated: September 15, 2026

Beats Solo Pro has 2 published AutoEQ corrections, from 2 measurement rigs, and this page carries every one of them. Below is the curve, the exact parametric filters behind it, and a one-click preset for EQBase. macOS has no system-wide equalizer of its own, so applying a correction to everything your Mac plays, rather than inside a single player, needs an app that sits on the system audio path.

Worth knowing: oratory1990 and Rtings agree almost exactly through the midrange, 0.1 dB apart at 1 kHz, and both ask for the same distinctive pair of adjacent moves: about 3 dB of boost at 2 kHz followed immediately by 3 to 4 dB of cut at 4 kHz. A correction that sharp is doing real work and deserves a listen before it is judged. They separate at the top, 3.7 dB apart at 16 kHz. The Solo Pro is discontinued, but it is an on-ear with noise cancelling and nothing in the current Beats line replaces that directly.

Each measurement below carries four things: the correction curve, its parametric filters, the same filters as copy-paste text in AutoEQ's format (which Equalizer APO and Peace, REW and most desktop parametric equalizers import, and which EQBase's own Expert EQ reads and writes), and EQBase's ten-band fit of that correction. The ten-band figures are what the downloadable preset applies, so what you hear matches what is written here. AutoEQ publishes its own ten-band file on the same grid, fitted to the raw measurement rather than to these filters, so the two agree closely through the midrange and can differ at the extremes.

The correction, measurement by measurement

Preamp: -2.1 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain -2.0 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 332 Hz Gain 1.9 dB Q 0.50
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 3735 Hz Gain -4.7 dB Q 0.44
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 2106 Hz Gain 5.4 dB Q 1.58
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 5816 Hz Gain 5.0 dB Q 3.86
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 58 Hz Gain -0.4 dB Q 1.36
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 31 Hz Gain 0.4 dB Q 1.68
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 163 Hz Gain 0.7 dB Q 3.66
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 233 Hz Gain -0.4 dB Q 2.45

Preamp: -3.3 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain -1.0 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 447 Hz Gain 2.1 dB Q 0.61
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 9146 Hz Gain -4.8 dB Q 0.18
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 2072 Hz Gain 5.7 dB Q 1.71
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 136 Hz Gain 1.5 dB Q 0.93
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -2.2 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 5616 Hz Gain 3.1 dB Q 5.71
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 4609 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 6.00
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 3579 Hz Gain -0.4 dB Q 2.72
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 36 Hz Gain 0.3 dB Q 1.87

What this correction changes

The largest boost is +2.8 dB at upper midrange (2 kHz), and the largest cut is −3.3 dB at presence (4 kHz). Total swing across the ten bands is 6.1 dB. Averaged over its bands the treble is pulled back by 2.3 dB, more than the other two, which is where most of the audible change lands.

The 2 published measurements on this page, from 2 rigs, do not agree with each other, and the size of the disagreement is worth knowing before picking one. They differ most at top octave (16 kHz), where the ten-band figures span 3.7 dB, and least at midrange (1 kHz), where they span 0.1 dB.

Applying this on a Mac

The Beats Solo Pro sits on the ear rather than around it, so how hard the pads press and where they land shift the response by more than most corrections do. Small adjustments to the headband are worth trying before concluding the curve is off.

Most of the measurements behind this page were made with the headphone in its normal listening mode, and active noise cancelling changes the response it is correcting. Switching ANC or transparency on and off is not a small tone change, so a correction that sounds right in one mode may not in another.

In EQBase the fastest route skips this page entirely: open the Headphones pane, search for your model, and apply the correction. The Beats Solo Pro is in the built-in catalog along with 8,665 other models. The preset above exists for people who want to see the numbers first, or who want a specific measurement rather than the default one.

Either way the correction applies to every app at once, and the free tier carries it with no time limit. The Beats Solo Pro preset above sets the ten-band curve, which is what the free tier applies, so nothing on this page is behind a purchase.

Common questions

Do these EQ settings work on any Mac app?

Yes, if the equalizer runs on system audio rather than inside one player. EQBase processes everything the Mac plays, so the same correction applies to Spotify, Safari, YouTube, games and calls. The Music app's own equalizer only affects Music.

Where do the Beats Solo Pro numbers come from?

From 2 published AutoEQ measurements of the Beats Solo Pro, made by oratory1990 and Rtings. Each one is a real frequency-response measurement compared against a target curve, and each produces its own set of filters. They are all on this page rather than averaged together, because a measurement belongs to the person who made it.

Why is the Beats Solo Pro preamp negative?

The Beats Solo Pro correction needs −2.1 dB of headroom on its default measurement, so the preset pulls the signal down by that much before the boosts are applied. Boosting a signal that is already near full scale would clip it, and the negative preamp is what buys the room. Skip it and loud passages distort. That is a small figure, meaning this correction is mostly cuts rather than boosts, so it costs very little loudness.

Can I use these filters in a different equalizer?

Yes. The filter table is a standard parametric list: type, frequency, gain and Q. Any parametric equalizer that accepts those four values per band will take them, on any platform. The one-click preset is only a shortcut for EQBase users.

Other headphones with published corrections

• Beats Solo3 Wireless EQ settings for Mac, 4 published measurements
• Beats Powerbeats Pro EQ settings for Mac, 3 published measurements
• Beats Studio Buds + EQ settings for Mac, 3 published measurements
• Beats Studio3 Wireless EQ settings for Mac, 3 published measurements
• Beats Studio Buds EQ settings for Mac, 2 published measurements

Credits

Correction data from the AutoEQ project by Jaakko Pasanen, used under the MIT licence. The measurements themselves are the work of the people credited on each curve above. EQBase ships the same catalog in the app, with the same attribution.

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