Choritsu調律

Keep Apple Music bit-perfect — then tune your headphones to their target curve.

A lossless sample-rate switcher and parametric EQ for Apple Music, in one quiet menu-bar panel. No driver, no admin, nothing left running in the background.

macOS 26 Tahoe+ · v2.3.0 · free & open source (MIT)

一目 · A look

One continuous popover

The EQ docks to the right of the main panel — now playing, source-matched rate, and the response curve over a live spectrum.

Choritsu with the parametric EQ panel open: an AutoEQ preset imported, the response curve drawn over a live spectrum, draggable band points, and per-band frequency/gain/Q controls

Sennheiser HD600 AutoEQ preset, applied to Apple Music through a muted process tap.

Now playing panel with artwork, transport, the sample-rate card in sync, and the output device with volume
Now playing & source rate
Output device picker
Output device picker
Sample-rate override menu from 44.1 to 352.8 kHz
Manual rate override
特長 · Features

Tuning, end to end

無損

Lossless rate-matching

Locks your output device to the track's real sample rate — 44.1 to 192 kHz, within a second of a track change — so macOS never silently resamples behind your back.

均衡

Parametric EQ

A multi-band PEQ for headphones and speakers. Import an AutoEQ preset, drag the response curve, scroll to set Q, watch the live spectrum, keep a profile per pair.

無垢

No driver, no admin

The EQ runs through a muted Core Audio process tap — no virtual sound card, no kernel extension, no admin rights, and clearly marked when it's on.

再生

Now playing & transport

Artwork, title, album, a live progress bar, and play / pause / previous / next — right from the menu bar.

硝子

Native Liquid Glass

Built on real macOS 26 glassEffect materials, in a calm wabi-sabi palette that disappears into the desktop.

言語

Localized

English, 日本語, 简体中文, and 繁體中文 — including the EQ panel.

仕組み · How it works

Outside the signal path, until you ask

Choritsu infers the playing track's sample rate from the Core Audio log stream, then changes the same device setting you could change in Audio MIDI Setup — pure HAL property access, nothing in the audio path.

壱 · 01

Follow the source

Detect the decoded rate and match the output device, debounced so it never flaps mid-track.

弐 · 02

Tap, only if asked

Turn on the EQ and a muted process tap feeds Apple Music's audio through a biquad cascade — no driver.

参 · 03

Stay correct

EQ coefficients recompute on every rate change, so a correction holds from 44.1 to 192 kHz.

Get Choritsu

Download the disk image, open it, and drag Choritsu.app to your Applications folder. The build is ad-hoc signed (not yet notarized), so clear the quarantine flag once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Choritsu.app

macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple Music (subscription or local library)