Headphone EQ

Sennheiser HD 560S EQ settings for Mac

Last updated: October 2, 2026

Sennheiser HD 560S has 8 published AutoEQ corrections, from 8 measurement rigs across 2 variants of the model, and this page carries every one of them. 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.

• Who it is for: anyone listening to the Sennheiser HD 560S on a Mac who wants its measured tonal balance pulled toward a neutral target.
• What a correction is: a set of equalizer filters that the open-source AutoEQ project computes by comparing a published measurement of the headphone with a target curve.
• What this page holds: for every measurement, the curve, its parametric filters, the same filters as copy-paste text, a ten-band version and a one-click EQBase preset.
• Which variant is yours: the 2 variants in the measurement picker are different versions of the Sennheiser HD 560S, so pick the one that describes your own pair before choosing a measurement of it. Standard means the measurement was published without a revision or condition noted.
• What it cannot do: it changes frequency response only. It will not make up for worn pads or for distortion, and it was measured on someone else's pair, not yours.
• What you need: any parametric equalizer takes the filters, on any platform. The preset needs EQBase, free on macOS 14.4 or later.

Worth knowing: Seven rigs measured the standard pads and they disagree by nearly 9 dB at 16 kHz, which says more about how hard the top octave is to measure than about the headphone. The separate worn-earpads curve below comes from a single measurer, Filk, and it is here because pad wear on this model moves the response further than the gap between most of those seven.

What the Sennheiser HD 560S correction changes

These figures come from the measurement by oratory1990, the one the picker below opens with. The largest boost is +4.5 dB at sub-bass (31 Hz), and the largest cut is −3.8 dB at top octave (16 kHz). Total swing across the ten bands is 8.3 dB. Averaged over its bands the bass is lifted by 2.0 dB, more than the other two, which is where most of the audible change lands.

The 8 published measurements on this page, from 8 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 9.6 dB, and least at midrange (1 kHz), where they span 0.6 dB. A spread that wide usually means the rigs disagree about the seal or the coupler rather than about the headphone, so prefer the measurement whose conditions match how you actually wear them.

The Sennheiser HD 560S corrections, measurement by measurement

Pick a measurement to see its 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 version, which is what the downloadable preset applies.

Preamp: -6.6 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 9.0 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 8983 Hz Gain 4.4 dB Q 2.63
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 54 Hz Gain -5.4 dB Q 0.48
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1148 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 2.38
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 491 Hz Gain 0.6 dB Q 1.23
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -3.9 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 7451 Hz Gain 2.0 dB Q 3.91
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 4502 Hz Gain -1.7 dB Q 6.00
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 1937 Hz Gain 0.9 dB Q 3.93
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 5639 Hz Gain -0.9 dB Q 6.00

Preamp: -6.4 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 7.7 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 10000 Hz Gain 5.8 dB Q 0.26
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 4986 Hz Gain -7.6 dB Q 1.41
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1228 Hz Gain -2.4 dB Q 2.18
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 59 Hz Gain -4.5 dB Q 0.61
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -6.6 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 6487 Hz Gain 2.1 dB Q 6.00
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 3186 Hz Gain -1.4 dB Q 5.30
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 3801 Hz Gain 1.5 dB Q 6.00
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 1956 Hz Gain 1.0 dB Q 6.00

Preamp: -6.1 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 6.1 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 553 Hz Gain 1.8 dB Q 0.64
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 2402 Hz Gain -2.9 dB Q 3.26
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1196 Hz Gain -1.9 dB Q 0.94
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 4389 Hz Gain -3.5 dB Q 5.72
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain 2.4 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 9496 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 2.96
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 6097 Hz Gain -2.3 dB Q 6.00
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 7068 Hz Gain 2.1 dB Q 5.97
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 3303 Hz Gain -1.0 dB Q 6.00

Preamp: -6.3 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 6.7 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 8868 Hz Gain 3.9 dB Q 1.34
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 2747 Hz Gain -2.5 dB Q 2.70
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1279 Hz Gain -1.8 dB Q 2.50
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 69 Hz Gain -2.2 dB Q 0.66
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -4.5 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 415 Hz Gain 0.7 dB Q 0.96
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 203 Hz Gain -0.5 dB Q 1.53
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 5237 Hz Gain 2.3 dB Q 5.88
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 4490 Hz Gain -1.8 dB Q 6.00

Preamp: -6.4 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 7.8 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 8563 Hz Gain 6.1 dB Q 1.23
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 1235 Hz Gain -1.9 dB Q 3.36
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 56 Hz Gain -4.6 dB Q 0.63
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 5271 Hz Gain -3.8 dB Q 1.33
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -2.5 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 2156 Hz Gain 1.1 dB Q 3.66
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 191 Hz Gain -0.3 dB Q 1.30
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 389 Hz Gain 1.0 dB Q 2.61
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 3014 Hz Gain -1.1 dB Q 4.54

Preamp: -6.1 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 6.0 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 2860 Hz Gain -1.9 dB Q 0.93
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 87 Hz Gain 1.8 dB Q 2.00
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 661 Hz Gain 0.9 dB Q 0.66
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 1096 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 1.77
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain 5.6 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 8697 Hz Gain -2.0 dB Q 4.10
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 4322 Hz Gain -2.7 dB Q 5.92
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 3754 Hz Gain 1.5 dB Q 6.00
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 4937 Hz Gain 1.0 dB Q 6.00

Preamp: -6.4 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 7.1 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 9118 Hz Gain 4.1 dB Q 1.64
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 67 Hz Gain -2.7 dB Q 0.56
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 5090 Hz Gain -3.1 dB Q 2.00
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 2021 Hz Gain 2.3 dB Q 3.59
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -5.8 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 1113 Hz Gain -0.9 dB Q 2.25
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 3777 Hz Gain 2.0 dB Q 5.93
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 4254 Hz Gain -1.5 dB Q 6.00
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 7060 Hz Gain 2.3 dB Q 5.78

Preamp: -6.1 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 105 Hz Gain 6.3 dB Q 0.70
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 5721 Hz Gain 4.1 dB Q 1.16
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 2304 Hz Gain -2.4 dB Q 0.52
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 9332 Hz Gain 2.7 dB Q 2.57
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 86 Hz Gain -1.2 dB Q 0.65
Filter 6: ON HSC Fc 10000 Hz Gain -1.9 dB Q 0.70
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 3745 Hz Gain 2.1 dB Q 5.95
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 4276 Hz Gain -2.0 dB Q 6.00
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 1194 Hz Gain -0.5 dB Q 2.51
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 1657 Hz Gain 0.6 dB Q 3.66

Ten-band or parametric EQ for the Sennheiser HD 560S?

A parametric equalizer lets every filter take any frequency, gain and width, where width is written as Q and a higher Q means a narrower filter, so it can reproduce AutoEQ's filters exactly. A ten-band graphic equalizer has ten fixed bands an octave apart, from 31 Hz to 16 kHz, all the same width, so it can only approximate them. EQBase's ten-band version sets those ten gains to match the parametric curve at the band centers, allowing for how the bands overlap, rather than reading the curve off at each center.

On oratory1990's measurement, the ten-band version stays within 1.8 dB of the parametric curve between 40 Hz and 10 kHz. Across all 8,666 corrections in EQBase's catalog the median for that range is 3.3 dB, which makes the Sennheiser HD 560S an easier fit for ten bands than most. Outside that range the gap reaches 4.7 dB around 20 Hz, below the lowest band at 31 Hz, where the parametric low shelf at 105 Hz keeps lifting by 9.0 dB all the way down and the 31 Hz band rolls off beneath its center.

Use the parametric filters if your equalizer accepts them: they are the correction exactly as published. The ten-band version is for equalizers with fixed sliders, EQBase's free tier among them, and it is what the downloadable preset applies. On EQBase Pro, applying the Sennheiser HD 560S from the Headphones pane uses the parametric filters directly, and the preset carries them as well, one switch to Expert EQ away. 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.

How to use the Sennheiser HD 560S correction on a Mac

To use the Sennheiser HD 560S correction on a Mac, apply it with an equalizer that runs on system audio, so it reaches every app at once. In EQBase the fastest route skips this page: open the Headphones pane, search for the Sennheiser HD 560S, which is in the built-in catalog of 6,033 models, and click the measurement you want. The preset above does the same from a file, for anyone who wants to see the numbers first or a specific measurement rather than the default one.

Either way the free tier carries it with no time limit. The Sennheiser HD 560S preset above sets the ten-band curve, which is what the free tier applies, so nothing on this page is behind a purchase.

The Sennheiser HD 560S is worn around the ear, where the pads decide a good deal of what the measurement rig saw. Worn or replaced pads move the response, which is why several models here carry separate curves for exactly that. If yours are old, expect the correction to be a near miss rather than an exact one.

A correction also assumes the headphone is being driven properly. A high-impedance pair running straight out of a Mac at high volume can lose grip in the low end for reasons no equalizer fixes, so if the bass still sounds soft after applying this, the amplifier is the thing to change, not the curve.

Common questions about Sennheiser HD 560S EQ

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 Sennheiser HD 560S numbers come from?

From 8 published AutoEQ measurements of the Sennheiser HD 560S, made by oratory1990, crinacle, Rtings, Super Review, Kuulokenurkka, HypetheSonics, Filk and Auriculares Argentina. 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 2 variants (Standard; Worn earpads) are measured separately and corrected separately.

Why is the Sennheiser HD 560S preamp negative?

The Sennheiser HD 560S correction needs −6.6 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 large figure by the standards of this catalog, which is normal for a model whose correction lifts the bass a long way.

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

• Sennheiser HD 600 EQ settings for Mac, 13 published measurements
• Sennheiser HD 650 EQ settings for Mac, 11 published measurements
• Sennheiser HD 6XX EQ settings for Mac, 6 published measurements
• Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro EQ settings for Mac, 11 published measurements
• HIFIMAN Sundara EQ settings for Mac, 11 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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