

#Waves nx vs sonarworks software
This latter interposes itself between your operating system and audio interface, so it looks to music software like a stereo output device, and is certainly the easiest solution if you never need to switch to loudspeakers.
#Waves nx vs sonarworks mac
Like Reference, Realphones is available both as a plug‑in (in VST, AAX and Mac AU versions) and as a 'system-wide' utility. I'm not sure whether Sonarworks will feel more flattered or alarmed by the similarities between Reference and Realphones, but these similarities are too obvious to go unnoticed. So you could think of Realphones as combining the functionality of Reference with that of Waves' Nx (albeit without the head-tracking), or the old Focusrite VRM Box. But, unlike Reference, it doesn't just correct for the deficiencies of your headphones: it includes optional binaural processing that attempts to recreate the experience of listening on loudspeakers in a control room. Whereas Reference is designed to work equally well with headphones and loudspeaker-based monitoring systems, Realphones is targeted purely at the former. Realphones, from Russian developers dSONIQ, closely resembles Sonarworks Reference in many ways, but there's one key difference. Sonarworks' Reference system has thus cornered a large part of the market for headphone correction, and Toneboosters' Morphit was the only alternative I knew of. The same principles can be applied to headphone monitoring - arguably, with fewer compromises - but there seems to be much less choice. There are now many 'room correction' systems, which will measure the acoustics of your control room and attempt to flatten them out in software.

Realphones aims to put all the software tools you need for perfect headphone monitoring in one neat package.
