Roon Labs LLC. presents OPRA – Customised EQ Curves for Headphones

Roon Labs LLC. has always been driven by the desire to create a basis for music lovers to not only rediscover and intuitively use their collection in a unique way with the Roon media management and multi-room Hi-res audio streaming solution, but also to do so at a particularly high level of quality. This is exactly what they now want to guarantee, especially for music playback via headphones.

With the latest versions of the Roon app and Roon ARC, Roon Labs LLC. OPRA from Roon, a solution based on the DPS engine Roon MUSE Audio Suite for the optimal tuning of music playback for different headphones.

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OPRA from Roon – Open Profiles for Revealing Audio

As is well known, Roon has always offered the possibility of executing a wide variety of DSP algorithms, individually for each zone, with signal processing being carried out centrally by the Roon server.

With OPRA from Roon, it is now possible to optimise individual headphone tuning based on these options, both via Roon and Roon ARC.

Essentially, these are so-called EQ presets or headphone EQ curves, as Roon Labs LLC. itself describes them. Strictly speaking, this is not a fundamental innovation, because in principle it would have been possible to use such EQ presets before, but you would have had to create them yourself.

OPRA is now intended to provide a standardised basis for such adjustments, relying on an open source repository on GitHub to provide audio experts and sound enthusiasts with a trustworthy, collaborative platform for creating and sharing precise headphone EQ curves. It’s an audio initiative that facilitates the exchange of high-quality audio tunings, Roon Labs LLC says, and anyone can use it, they emphasise. It is the first comprehensive attempt to create a trusted source of EQ profiles that can be easily integrated into software.

As mentioned, OPRA has been implemented in Roon as well as ARC and is said to be a user-friendly and powerful new addition to the MUSE Audio Suite that instantly optimises audio quality for a wide range of headphone models, as Roon Labs LLC. promises.

Easy to use

The new Headphone EQ is available directly via MUSE Precision Audio Control, where it can be found as a new filter and already offers a variety of EQ curves for the headphones of various leading manufacturers. This allows you to search directly for the corresponding model and it turns out that you will quickly find what you are looking for for many current models. Various options are also available for some models, such as headphones with active noise cancellation.

Roon 2.0.43 and Roon ARC 1.0.60

The versions Roon 2.0.43 and Roon ARC 1.0.60 are now available and with them Roon Labs LLC. introduces OPRA. Of course, these updates once again offer a number of bug fixes and improvements, but these are more details, so OPRA is clearly the focus.

Prices and availability

Specifically, the Roon 2.0 Build 1480 and Roon Server 2. Build 1480 versions are available, as are the Roon for iOS 2.0 Build 1480 and Roon for Google Android 2.0 Build 1480 versions. Roon ARC 1.0 Build 323 is now the latest version of Roon ARC. All updates are of course free of charge for existing customers. According to Roon Labs LLC, interested parties can now test Roon for 14 days free of charge around the launch of OPRA.

Getting to the point

Interestingly, the DPS-based signal processing integrated into Roon from the very beginning has so far been ignored by many users, even though it makes many things possible. Perhaps this will change now that Roon Labs LLC. is introducing the new OPRA from Roon option for both Roon and Roon ARC, providing EQ curves specially created for a wide variety of headphones via Headphone EQ as part of the MUSE Audio Suite.