The CONEQ™ measurement technology is applied to make a precise measurement of how loud the loudspeaker reproduces tones of each frequency and to produce a respective correction filter. The CONEQ™ filter application technology is any of the software or hardware equalization tools supporting CONEQ™ in order to apply the generated correction filters.
The first step of applying CONEQ technology is the measurement of Acoustic Power Frequency Response of a loudspeaker and synthesis of the CONEQ correction filter. This is done by one of the editions of CONEQ measurement software.
CONEQ™ Starter
The CONEQ™ Starter software enables basic use of the CONEQ™ technology – simple CONEQ™ measurement, automatic filter generation and filter export for use in hardware and software tools supporting CONEQ™. For advanced measurement and filter synthesis options the CONEQ™ Workshop application is required.
CONEQ™ Starter is licensed on a per-use basis. The license allows to save ten sets of CONEQ™ correction filters which is enough to measure and correct ten systems with arbitrary number of channels each. When all ten filter sets are saved, it is still possible to use CONEQ™ Starter for measurement. Licenses for saving additional filter sets are available on request.
CONEQ™ Starter is included with every APEQ™ hardware equalizer and with every CONEQ™ software plug-in.
CONEQ™ Workshop
The CONEQ™ Workshop software gives the user full control of the CONEQ™ measurement process and numerous options to customize the filter generation. The license for CONEQ™ Workshop allows creation of unlimited number of CONEQ™ correction filters. The license for CONEQ™ Workshop also enables unlimited use of CONEQ™ Starter.
Feature comparison
The following table provides a summary of main differences between CONEQ™ Starter and CONEQ™ Workshop.
CONEQ™ Starter
CONEQ™ Workshop
User interface
Simple
Advanced
Measurement of any number of channels
Yes
Yes
Generation of filters for APEQ™ hardware equalizer and CONEQ™ plug-ins
Yes
Yes
Saving and loading measurement projects
No
Yes
Measurement averaging (composition)
No
Yes
Measurement sample rate
48 kHz
48/96 kHz
Limit for maximum gain/attenuation
+/- 10 dB, fixed
Adjustable
Filter target curve
Flat
Flat, Presets, Custom
Microphone calibration file support
No
Yes
Adjustable test sweep length and measurement length
No
Yes
Using the measured frequency response of one speaker as a target for another