Feature: Audiogram Support

[ocinon]

Disclaimer:

• I have checked for a similar issue, and I am sure it hasn't been reported before.

Description:
People with limited hearing usually get audiograms showing the minimum loudness required for several discrete frequencies. The iPhone has a great feature that allows users to input those audiograms so people can hear frequencies that they are missing again. While it is possible to use an equalizer to push up those frequencies, this is NOT the same as the correction required, as it does not consider the frequency's dynamic range. People have a minimum and maximum loudness for each frequency. The frequencies with a reduced minimum level have to be compressed instead so that this frequency range is audible to the person, but the minimum and maximum remain within the dynamic range.

While it is possible to create this manually using a compressor, I assume it will be too complicated for most people to input by themselves. An equalizer option that combines an equalizer and compressor, ideally with dynamic bands that allow users to input the numbers they get from their audiogram, would solve this.

User flow & interface:
An audiogram view. Options to add another entry at a specific frequency. Set the decibels for that frequency. Optional function to lower the maximum loudness in decibels for that frequency. Option to input separate audiograms for the left and right ear.

[tryonkus]

+1 On this. The only system wide EQ Apple allows on iOS devices is an audiogram, and it makes a huge difference for someone like me with hearing loss--in fact, that is the primary reason I bought eqMac. I can sort of fake my audiogram by entering the values I have and positioning the other sliders by estimating an interpolation of the plot.

There are several apps for iOS which will either generate an audiogram by doing a quick and dirty hearing test or by entering the values, but the second method is now built into iOS under Accessibility. Apple hasn't put this into MacOS, and it would very helpful to have it available in eqMac.