HIGHRESAUDIO playlists: Show more keeps going. In 3.3.7 the New, Recommended and Popular playlist pages stopped loading after a few screens and the Show more button disappeared. Now they keep loading as you scroll, as far as HIGHRESAUDIO's own app goes: the tab's own playlists first, then HIGHRESAUDIO's other editorial playlists. A finished list says "All N shown." Microphone permission: when the Room tab asks for the microphone, the text now says that the last few test recordings stay on this device. The app already kept the last six room-sweep recordings (Files app, HeadMania, room-captures); the old text wrongly said nothing was stored. Nothing is sent anywhere. The sound is unchanged.

HIGHRESAUDIO streaming. A new HRA Streaming tab plays the HIGHRESAUDIO catalogue through HeadMania's filters and Neuromancer, when you sign in with your own HIGHRESAUDIO streaming subscription. Browse, search, open albums and playlists, mark favourites with a heart and sort your tracks. An album or playlist plays on by itself, also with the phone locked. Built with HIGHRESAUDIO's cooperation. Bluetooth headphones. The app now plays to Bluetooth headphones such as AirPods. Bluetooth is a lossy link, so the music plays at the headset's own rate and the filters step aside; Neuromancer, AutoEQ and the effects stay. If the headphones disconnect, the music pauses where it was; press Play when they are back. A peak guard leaves headroom for the Bluetooth encoder, so loud masters do not clip there. While Bluetooth is the output, the settings it does not use are greyed and say so. Headphone profiles. On the new Headphones tab each headphone has one entry: its correction from AutoEQ or your own PEQ, crossfeed, the effects, and the outputs it loads on. Connect that headphone and its entry loads; other outputs get none of it. AutoEQ and PEQ stay beside it and edit the headphone in use. Effects rebuilt. Bass Thump, Vocals Presence, Speed / Transient, Harmonic Exciter, Parallel Detail, Crossfeed and Soundstage Width now do what their names say, and a change glides in instead of jumping. Pre-amp. The pre-amp you set in PEQ or AutoEQ now always applies; at ×8 and above it used to be undone. − and + buttons sit beside each pre-amp field, as the iPhone keypad has no minus key. No more starting over. With your own files and HIGHRESAUDIO, changing the filter, the rate, an effect or another setting while music plays now carries on from where you were listening. Lock screen. HIGHRESAUDIO albums and playlists show their cover there, and Previous and Next work for them and for your own files. Music another app sends keeps those buttons greyed. Network streams. A short Wi-Fi drop no longer ends a track from a control point or HIGHRESAUDIO; the app tries again and continues. A control point's track is fetched once and kept in memory, so a seek into the part already received does not wait for the network; a dotted line on the Play tab's waveform shows how far it has arrived. A seek just after Play to a network player no longer shows the wrong time or loses music. Played to a network player, a HIGHRESAUDIO track shows its cover and title there. Room correction. The Room page is rebuilt around one choice, Measured or Simulated, each with its graph and status. A measured correction is kept when you then draw the room, a first sweep that was too quiet repeats itself, and placement suggestions keep the speakers at a normal stereo angle. Fixes. The progress bar and time are right on Bluetooth and on high-resolution DACs. Audirvana titles keep their quotation marks. The Signature Edition card folds to one line.

Pulse and Unleashed ×1.5 lift only the hits. With Neuromancer Revelio or Revelio Eco, Pulse and Unleashed ×1.5 used to lower the music slightly in the moment just before each drum hit, to keep the overall level unchanged. Now the music before and between the hits keeps its level, and the hits rise from it. In our measurements on the desktop app the punch is as strong as before, Pulse plays at the same level and Unleashed ×1.5 slightly louder. Unleashed ×2 is unchanged. Pause that reaches your network player. When this iPhone or iPad plays to a network player, Pause now pauses the player too; until now it kept playing what it had already received. If the player refuses the Pause or Play, the app says so and stays as it was. Music another app sends. When mconnect, JPLAY, Audirvana or another control point sends the music, that app controls it: the lock screen greys out Play, Pause and Stop, and you pause, skip or stop in that app. A song you choose in the Music tab still plays here at once. Secure links. Music a control point sends with a link that starts with https:// can now play. The app tries a plain connection first, then once more over a secure one. Linear Phase and Mixed Phase on the Efficient engine. At 1M taps and above, Linear Phase and Mixed Phase now use the Efficient engine (Settings → Filter Engine, on by default), except file playback with Fast Start off. They need less processing and keep the same filter delay. The output is not bit-identical (the same filter taps, summed in a different order). Turning the engine off restores Classic. Fixes. When a network player accepts the music but cannot play it, for example because its DAC is off, the app no longer closes: it says what happened and reports the track as stopped, so the control point stops instead of skipping to its next track. No more false "audio is breaking up" warning after Pause and Play to a network player. The Play tab's text no longer overlaps the signal chain. Credits. AutoEq and the measurement labs behind its headphone profiles are now credited in the AutoEq tab and in About. The Neuromancer model credits in About now have their own heading.

Control HeadMania on your computer. A new button at the top right switches this screen between this iPhone or iPad's own HeadMania and HeadMania running on your Mac or PC on the same Wi-Fi, so you can choose its music and filters from here. The computer needs HeadMania 3.2.7 or newer; on a PC, press Start Server first. The computer plays through its own outputs; the phone makes no sound in this mode. The same button brings you back. CUE albums. An album saved as one file with its .cue sheet now shows as separate tracks in the Music tab, each with its own title, and plays on from one track to the next. Add Files accepts the .cue as well: pick the album file and its sheet. Revelio's Pulse, more choices. With Neuromancer Revelio or Revelio Eco, Pulse is now a choice: Off, Pulse, Unleashed ×1.5 or Unleashed ×2. Unleashed gives drum and percussion hits a bigger lift in the bass, midrange and treble, brings voices slightly forward, runs small extra models on the processor, and plays 3 dB quieter to leave room for the taller peaks. Playing with the screen locked. With the screen locked, iOS could close HeadMania after about a minute, because one network task kept a processor core busy. That is fixed. Clearer messages. When a track sent from a control point does not start, the Play view now says why and what to check: your internet connection, or the music server on your home network. Smaller fixes. Tapping a song in the Music tab plays it even when a control point left its stream paused on this device. After you press Play or Stop yourself, a track a control point sent earlier no longer starts on its own when you come back to the app. If Neuromancer cannot keep up while DSD goes to a network player, the music continues without it until the next track or seek, as it already did for PCM.

Efficient filter engine on iPhone and iPad. Organik, Organik Touch, Organik Pulse, Organik-Adaptive and Transient-Perfect at 1M taps and above, and AURORA Organik and AURORA Organik-Adaptive, now run their long Organik filter in two layers that need less processing. It is on by default; Settings → Filter Engine switches back to the Classic engine. Organik Touch, reworked. Touch now gives its short path only to the first 20 ms of each hit, at every length; everything else stays on the long Organik filter. Organik Pulse sounds the same and needs less processing. Touch and Pulse with hi-res files. They now play most 88.2–192 kHz files with their own filter, up to 768 kHz, where they used to switch to plain Organik. Network players. Change the filter during a track that the app relays from Audirvana, JPLAY or mconnect to a network player, and the progress bar now moves with the music instead of falling behind. A DSD stream relayed to a network player now ends cleanly: the control point moves on and the last seconds are no longer cut. Neuromancer. If a model falls behind during a track, the music continues without it until the next track or seek. Smaller fixes. Saving a setting during playback no longer resets or stops the filter that is playing. The two AURORA multiband filters no longer cut up to 1.5 ms from the end of a track. In room correction, a failed sweep is repeated where it stopped, and the DAC returns to its playback rate after a measurement.

Neuromancer Eco. Neuromancer, Awakened and Revelio now each come in a lighter Eco version, trained to follow the full model with up to about three times less processing. Its correction is close to the full model's, not identical. Choose it when you want the device to work less hard, and switch to the full model or to Original to compare. A faster first Play after an update. iOS prepares each model the first time it loads, which could hold the first Play after an update silent for about 15 seconds on iPhone. The app now does this shortly after it opens, so by the time you choose music the wait is usually over. No more background tests. Neuromancer's speed is now measured from playback itself, so the tests after each update, and their "Checking" note, are gone. Signature Edition codes. A redeemed code is now recognized and activates Signature Edition, and you can redeem one in the app (Redeem code, iOS 16.3 or later). Restore gives a clear answer, and you can buy during the trial. Network players. The "breaking up" warning no longer appears on healthy streams. When a player really falls behind, the app says how much it receives against what it needs and suggests restarting the player first.

Neuromancer comes to iPhone and iPad. It is a neural renderer: a network with 8.5 million learned values that shapes the attack of each note as the music plays, before the filters do their work, and changes little else. It runs on the Neural Engine, entirely on the device, and it is free. • Four choices: Neuromancer (bass-note attacks), Awakened (aimed at attacks only, sustained notes left alone), Revelio (drum attacks), and Revelio's Pulse (snare, stick and hi-hat attacks; the strongest, up to about 2 dB). • The changes are small on purpose. Switch to Original to compare, and choose by ear. • It is experimental and demanding. It needs iOS 27, and it was tested on iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPad Pro with M5. It keeps the Neural Engine and processor busy while it plays, so expect more battery use and a warmer device. The first time you open this version, the app times each model on your device by itself; where a model cannot keep up, Neuromancer stays off. • Playback starts about three seconds later, by design. Radio: Radio Club 80 — Euro joins the lossless stations, with its operator's written permission. Also new: a short intro when the app opens (Skip passes it), and an iPad now appears as "HeadMania.org iPadOS" in control points.

New filters: Organik Touch and Organik Pulse. Attacks such as a drum strike or piano hammer take a short filter path while the sustained sound around them keeps the long Organik reconstruction; Pulse separates more selectively around detected hits. Both are preview filters with extra processing and playback delay — choose by listening. Room correction, further along: • Measurement is a guided six-capture flow, with a floor plan optional. • Lingering bass: resonances that keep ringing after a note are detected and can be shortened where the analysis finds a correction that passes its checks. Ringing reduction is experimental and the prediction is not a measured result. • Fullness keeps more of the bass balance you prefer; recalculating from saved recordings needs no new measurement; the previous design can be restored. • The correction table lists response and ringing filters side by side, and the room graph shows detected and remaining ringing. • Correction can be switched off before playback starts, and a floor-plan draft survives switching tabs. Radio: Pure Lounge Radio and Pure Classix Radio join the lossless stations, with their operator's written permission. Fixes: the app reconnects to its engine after a long stay in the background instead of showing "Reconnecting…"; the first screen no longer stays blank on a slow launch; exported room files can be picked when importing. Room correction is still in testing and not fully validated.

New: room correction. Sweep your room with a microphone, see its bass resonances on a graph you can edit, and cut them. Measuring is free. Room correction in HeadMania works only in the bass, where the room dominates what you hear, and it is applied as a set of parametric cut filters (minimum-phase biquad notches). It is not a FIR convolution and not a full-spectrum "smoothing". How the filters are arrived at: 1. Measurement. A logarithmic sweep is played through the speakers and recorded with the microphone (Farina deconvolution). With several positions around the listening seat the responses are averaged; with a single position, only the bass is corrected. 2. Mode detection. From the averaged curve we extract the room's own one-octave trend and look for the peaks that rise above it. Those are the room's resonances, each with its frequency, height and width (Q). 3. The filter. For each mode, a notch whose zero is placed on the resonance's pole, with the Q matched to the measured width ("matched modal cancellation", Mäkivirta et al., JAES 2003). The aim is not just to lower the level of the peak but to cancel the resonance itself, meaning its ringing in time, which is what muddy bass is. Below the room's Schroeder frequency, magnitude and decay are the same phenomenon, so a correctly matched notch is also the time-domain correction. 4. The limits. Cuts only, no boost. A filter may not dig a hole below the room's trend, and the sum of the cuts is bounded by a headroom budget so no clipping can occur. The resulting filters are shown on the graph and can be adjusted by hand. What it does not do: it does not correct reflections or speaker-boundary interference (those cannot be fixed with EQ from a single position), it does not work above the bass region, and it does not yet apply a separate decay filter. Alternatively, without a microphone, the same filters can be designed from a simulation of the room (FDTD) based on the dimensions and speaker positions you describe.