Headphone EQ

Beats Solo3 Wireless EQ settings for Mac

Last updated: September 15, 2026

Beats Solo3 Wireless has 4 published AutoEQ corrections, from 2 measurement rigs across 4 variants of the model, 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: Four measurements across two rigs and four states of the same headphone: the 2016 unit wired and over Bluetooth, then the 2018 and 2019 production runs. Innerfidelity's wired and wireless readings of that 2016 pair stay within 0.6 dB of each other at every band, which is a useful negative result: the Bluetooth link is not what shapes this headphone. All four ask for the same thing, 2 to 5 dB out of the 125 to 250 Hz region and a lift above it, which is the midbass the Solo line was built on.

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: -4.4 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain -0.6 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 209 Hz Gain -6.9 dB Q 0.50
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 7293 Hz Gain 6.9 dB Q 0.18
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 518 Hz Gain 3.6 dB Q 0.70
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 3879 Hz Gain -7.5 dB Q 1.03
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -3.5 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 2200 Hz Gain 2.0 dB Q 3.14
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 1395 Hz Gain -1.0 dB Q 2.33
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 3421 Hz Gain -2.8 dB Q 4.75
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 4088 Hz Gain 2.6 dB Q 6.00

Preamp: -4.4 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain -1.4 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 199 Hz Gain -6.2 dB Q 0.58
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 7262 Hz Gain 6.1 dB Q 0.18
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 3618 Hz Gain -7.6 dB Q 1.39
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 550 Hz Gain 2.9 dB Q 0.86
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -3.4 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 2182 Hz Gain 1.6 dB Q 3.09
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 1366 Hz Gain -0.9 dB Q 2.15
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 3990 Hz Gain 2.4 dB Q 6.00
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 3393 Hz Gain -1.9 dB Q 4.38

Preamp: -5.7 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 0.3 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 729 Hz Gain 6.7 dB Q 0.99
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 180 Hz Gain -4.1 dB Q 0.35
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 10000 Hz Gain -2.9 dB Q 0.62
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 401 Hz Gain 2.3 dB Q 1.49
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain 1.4 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 3166 Hz Gain -2.5 dB Q 2.75
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 4221 Hz Gain 2.7 dB Q 5.99
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 2064 Hz Gain 1.0 dB Q 3.31
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 8543 Hz Gain -0.9 dB Q 3.16

Preamp: -4.7 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 0.5 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 188 Hz Gain -6.2 dB Q 0.46
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 580 Hz Gain 7.1 dB Q 0.58
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 246 Hz Gain -2.1 dB Q 1.44
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 3066 Hz Gain -1.8 dB Q 5.09
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain 0.7 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 4127 Hz Gain 1.9 dB Q 4.27
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 1431 Hz Gain -0.8 dB Q 2.46
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 2129 Hz Gain 1.1 dB Q 3.44
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 3192 Hz Gain -0.9 dB Q 3.64

What this correction changes

The largest boost is +3.5 dB at upper midrange (2 kHz), and the largest cut is −4.4 dB at lower midrange (250 Hz). Total swing across the ten bands is 7.9 dB. Averaged over its bands the bass is pulled back by 2.1 dB, more than the other two, which is where most of the audible change lands.

The 4 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 treble (8 kHz), where the ten-band figures span 6.7 dB, and least at bass (62 Hz), where they span 0.7 dB. No two of these read the same variant, so the gap is the variants and the rigs together and there is no way to tell them apart from published data. Start from the variant that matches your own pair.

Applying this on a Mac

The Beats Solo3 Wireless 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.

The Beats Solo3 Wireless connects over Bluetooth, so the Mac's own headphone amplifier never enters the picture: macOS encodes the audio and the headphone's electronics drive it from there. Nothing about amplification applies here, but the preamp does. Leave the headroom the preset asks for, because a boosted band that clips does so before the signal ever leaves the Mac.

In EQBase the fastest route skips this page entirely: open the Headphones pane, search for your model, and apply the correction. The Beats Solo3 Wireless 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 Solo3 Wireless 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 Solo3 Wireless numbers come from?

From 4 published AutoEQ measurements of the Beats Solo3 Wireless, made by Rtings and Innerfidelity. 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. The 4 variants (2016, wired, 2016, wireless, 2018 production, 2019 production) are measured separately and corrected separately.

Why is the Beats Solo3 Wireless preamp negative?

The Beats Solo3 Wireless correction needs −4.4 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.

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 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 Solo Pro EQ settings for Mac, 2 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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