Open Sound Connect
Open Sound Connect: Sony headphones on your Mac
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Open Sound Connect is a Mac app for Sony MDR-1000X, WH-1000XM2–XM6, WH-1000XX headphones: noise canceling and ambient sound, equalizer, DSEE, Speak-to-Chat, scenes and a menu bar panel. Local headphone controls. No app analytics.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Apple
- Audio
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Partial A Mac UI and settings panel are buildable, but controlling the headphones depends on reverse-engineering Sony's proprietary Bluetooth command protocol, which varies by model and firmware.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI with IOBluetooth) that speaks Sony's RFCOMM command protocol, which must be reverse-engineered from packet captures and existing community projects. The hard part is mapping the undocumented opcodes and parameters across models and firmware versions, which needs Bluetooth and reverse-engineering experience.
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Attention rank: #162 of 293 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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