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So after using Beats for a while, and then reinstalling PowerAmp, I've come to the conclusion that PowerAmp kicks the sh*t out of Beats. I dont use BT for music so I dont know how PowerAmp sounds over BT, but my headphones are nearly twice as loud on PowerAmp as they are on Beats mods, Dolby or HTC Surround. Plus the bass sounds WAY better. I have a pair of Bose ear plugs, and without a doubt the rock harder thru PowerAmp. How about you?
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Beats is terrible. I pity the fool the who thinks it's good. It's like saying $10 wine is great without every having tried better ones.
Are using the beats mods or the actaul XE Rom? Cause the XE rom beats audio sounds great to me.
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I'm using the revolution rom with it cooked in and I think the sound quality is better. I uninstalled all music players and am using the HTC player now with some tweaks from Volume+
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I used mods, roms, stock, and everything else. Even winamp. PowerAmp kills em all. I cant listen to it full volume on PowerAmp. Where I really test is in transit. I cant hear even big trucks drive by me with poweramp. Beats and the rest of them sound terrible compared, and I hear traffic noise from smaller vehicles. Not to mention PowerAmp can run off or on headphones, and has an 8 band equalizer with a Preamp. It was my very first purchase from the Market and has been worth every penny. It lays the competition to waste. Not even Dsp manager can compare. I hate to be free advertising but I find it hard to believe HTC is being outgunned by a Market app. Beats is supposed to be The Best right? Got some work to do on that I think!
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Its hilarious that it is marketed as an enhancement, when it doesn't even have settings. It seems to be merely a ****ty eq you cant adjust.
Does anyone in this thread have beats headphones or have tried them?
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Does anyone in this thread have beats headphones or have tried them?
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I have. They are nice. Not amazing though. The cable is a ribbon, which is cool. Overpriced.
Tried them too. Not worth it. I have Shure and they kick their arse
Beats is awful. HTC player can't even do flac format.
Beats does nothing for me...
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Beats is awful. HTC player can't even do flac format.
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One more reason to use poweramp.
I have poweramp and playerpro installed on my sensation. I use both of them, and I like them both. Can't decide which one I like better
I used to use Poweramp, but then thought I'd try Playerpro.
Have to say Playerppro is much better. The UI is beautiful. And with the free DSP Pack on the Market, the EQ is just as good as the Poweramp one.
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I used to use Poweramp, but then thought I'd try Playerpro.
Have to say Playerppro is much better. The UI is beautiful. And with the free DSP Pack on the Market, the EQ is just as good as the Poweramp one.
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Agreed. The new playerpro has a new updated dsp pack v2, and the UI is indeed better than poweramp. Not to mention that playerpro does not run in the background like poweramp.
I mainly only listen to metal and hardcore music, so beats was obviously a flop for my tast. I love poweramp, I like being able to make my own eq setting. Im interested in this "playerpro" but how much is it after the trial is up?? I already purchased poweramp so would it be worth buying another player?
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I mainly only listen to metal and hardcore music, so beats was obviously a flop for my tast. I love poweramp, I like being able to make my own eq setting. Im interested in this "playerpro" but how much is it after the trial is up?? I already purchased poweramp so would it be worth buying another player?
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I had already ppurchased Poweramp, but tried Playerpro and bought it too...after all , it's not exactly big money
playerpro has a "DSP Pack" free on the market, which extends the EQ and makes it pretty much identical to the Poweramp one.
Anyone as disappointed as I am in the in the winamp app? Doesn't even have an EQ or presets. booh
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I had already ppurchased Poweramp, but tried Playerpro and bought it too...after all , it's not exactly big money
playerpro has a "DSP Pack" free on the market, which extends the EQ and makes it pretty much identical to the Poweramp one.
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Ok I've played with Player Pro and I must say the UI is much better then poweramp. I just can't get equal or better audio quality as i can with poweramp. I may just need some more time with it.
O and sorry to the OP, seems this thread has been hijacked into a player discussion. With beats only limited to the htc player, it really has limitations
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Ok I've played with Player Pro and I must say the UI is much better then poweramp. I just can't get equal or better audio quality as i can with poweramp. I may just need some more time with it.
O and sorry to the OP, seems this thread has been hijacked into a player discussion. With beats only limited to the htc player, it really has limitations
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Did you install the DSP Pack from Market?
Yea, sorry OP I also find the beats mod rather "average"...
Hi all !
I just post here to talk about ( again ? ) Beats audio.
After Many tests on many roms ( Beats / No Beats ) the results are here :
Take a 2.3.4 Without Beats audio Audio quality is really fine !
even in Bleutooth A2DP, Stereo Headsets or in speaker-mode.
Now with a 2.3.4 or 2.3.5 With Beats audio :
Audio is crappy With HTC Player in speaker-mode and A2DP.
When you plug headsets it enable beats then you have a nice quality but very very close to stock 2.3.4 without Beats.....
BTW you can listen to Music on deezer or spotify your have a nice quality without any probleme in A2DP or speakermode or Stereo-headsets.
What do you think about it ?
Best regards all !
I already said this. When u have beats kn the phone, htc makes the regular sound sojnd ****ty, and enable beats, and it raises it to a little better than nornal
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You can't enable Beats in A2DP....
Is there a way to have both beats and the original equalizer??
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It's a gimmick. CM7's DSP Manager is better, imo.
I prefer using Poweramp and its equalizer presets. Sounds great!
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But I really like the HTC equaliser .. DSP manager somtimes creates overload in my music.. and power amp has a unpolished ui..
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It's a gimmick. CM7's DSP Manager is better, imo.
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I totally agree with this.
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Htc equaliser is bwtter. But good to have it and beats. How to get this?
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You can't enable Beats in A2DP....
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I installed a Revolution HD Rom 3.6.2 but I have the same problem. Beats Audio doesn't work with A2DP. Have you found a solution? any fix?
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This. Works excellently
Beats is made for beats, not other headphones. K? Got it? Cool. Stop *****ing.
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I personally quite like the difference Beats makes with the stock earbuds, maybe that's just me
It seems to pull the sound "forwards", if that makes sense, and gives it a slightly richer sound. Yeah, CM7's equalizer probably does just as well, but I'm not on CM7 yet.
I personally find that beats is much better for my ears than CM7 + DSP on my non stock reference bud phones.
CM7 is alpha state and not quite ready for prime time... there are audio artifacts still in there so the sound quality isn't quite clean as yet... but it will get there.
ver8 is much better than ver7
Overall however, The CURRENT audio quality for CM7 is horrible and i listen to a lot of classical music... for example: violin plucking and bowing sound terrible on CM7 but sound quite decent on Beats... that is quite a shame as Beats isn't much more than an EQ tuning for the Beats headset... and i am not using Beats headsets im using expensive Reference buds.
Right now I am looking for a better EQ app on market to replace beats as it does have its short comings as well.
Poweramp sounds better than beats but its ui is garbage to me
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Here's my opinion on this whole beats fiasco.
All beats focus on is BASS. The more the better. It smallens the sound stage, which is why some feel like it's "closer"
DSP manager is not tuned for you. You tune it yourself, as music is subjective to each person. I might like bass, but you might not. So tune it yourself.
Think of DSP as cookie dough and Beats as ready baked cookies. Some like ready baked cookies, but some want to fine tune it themselves, adding chocolate or ****.
All in all, I HATE beats. It's nothing but a marketing scheme to me.
Yes, at one hand it's maketing. And it's working. There are options with better sound. But, if you like bass based music, Dr Dre's sound is quiet good. The Beats headphones are strong, at least I like the cable. It's a better headphone with a smaller range of happy users.
I like bass music a lot!
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Beats is made for beats, not other headphones. K? Got it? Cool. Stop *****ing.
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Plus one fukin thousand people on this forum are such haters. At the end of the day ....
Stock sensation: my dhd with srs sounded WAY better
Sensation xe: best audio quality on any phone I've tried, it makes so much difference.
P.s I listen to music about 2/3 hours a day and I use beats studios so I can deffo tell the difference.
Oh and don't criticize beats on 3.5 Rom because we haven't got a proper port, the mods we got sound nothing like native beats on xe.
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Poweramp sounds better than beats but its ui is garbage to me
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Find me a setting combo on power amp that's better then beats & ill give you £100
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Find me a setting combo on power amp that's better then beats & ill give you £100
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Its impossible. Music depends on the person listening to it. Why so you think there are so many headphone manufacturers out there? What works for you might not work for him. You can't benchmark a headphone.
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Like the sign says..is there anyway to add beats audio to hashcodes stock cm9 rom. I know there are custom roms with beats built in but a lot of my apps just seem to work better with the stock cm9 rom he built.
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TexasRules777 said:
Like the sign says..is there anyway to add beats audio to hashcodes stock cm9 rom. I know there are custom roms with beats built in but a lot of my apps just seem to work better with the stock cm9 rom he built.
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I just installed the same one I always have, the one labelled for Gingerbread, I think.
Do you have a link to one that works? I've tried two or three different ones floating around and I get an immediate system sound f/c upon reboot.
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My ROM features Beats Audio Feel free to try it out!
gedemis said:
My ROM features Beats Audio Feel free to try it out!
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Installed your ROM yesterday. Works great!.
As for Beats Audio, I don't even know what that is or why I should care
Can you point me in the right direction?
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Installed your ROM yesterday. Works great!.
As for Beats Audio, I don't even know what that is or why I should care
Can you point me in the right direction?
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It's a set of software libraries that should provide you with better sound I'm able to hear a clear difference when comparing the stock ROM and gedeROM, but be the judge of that yourself.
I thinks it's funny how Beats Audio on the hardware side is so terrible but the software aspect is pretty damn good. I was really skeptical but the bass is much fatter in comparison and the whole thing just has better sound overall. It's now totally obvious to me the main design focus was cosmetics to make all the little hipster kids happy when they should've been smart and focused primarily on functionality. But who does that nowadays, right? On a side note, I can't stand the ridiculous white ones. They might as well make them bright yellow with flashing lights, like "Hey, everyone, look how trendy I am!"
+1 for ged's rom being awesome
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+1 for ged's rom being awesome
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Oh don't get me wrong i'm using ged's rom too and love it..i just have an issue where dsp manager does absolutely nothing (ie: i move the sliders no sound change) and any other eq app i've tried f/c's immediately when opening. I love the sound change beats provides but i also would like to be able to fine tune with and eq. I've flashed G's rom with a fresh install and 3 different downloads and still get f/c's on any eq app? So i thought maybe one of the thousands of beats.zips floating around might work if i flash it over a stock cm rom. I want your rom to work for me ged, but the lack of eq bums me out. Any idea what i'm doing wrong with dsp manager?
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Oh don't get me wrong i'm using ged's rom too and love it..i just have an issue where dsp manager does absolutely nothing (ie: i move the sliders no sound change) and any other eq app i've tried f/c's immediately when opening. I love the sound change beats provides but i also would like to be able to fine tune with and eq. I've flashed G's rom with a fresh install and 3 different downloads and still get f/c's on any eq app? So i thought maybe one of the thousands of beats.zips floating around might work if i flash it over a stock cm rom. I want your rom to work for me ged, but the lack of eq bums me out. Any idea what i'm doing wrong with dsp manager?
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yes same here dsp manager did nothing..i think its not recognizing headset input..
And tried all the equalizers but getting fcs
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Yea i even tried a DSP 1.0 zip i had used before..nothing.
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Yea i even tried a DSP 1.0 zip i had used before..nothing.
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I tried DSP yesterday. I heard difference as soon as a changed a setting. This is from the internal speakers not headphones.
So is it possible to add Beat Audio to, say, Modaco ROM?
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So is it possible to add Beat Audio to, say, Modaco ROM?
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I still haven't got any zips to work..
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I tried DSP yesterday. I heard difference as soon as a changed a setting. This is from the internal speakers not headphones.
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Same here, headphones don't register. Found an eq that works and sounds great with beats on ged's rom.
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I installed the Beats 5.1 ZIP from this thread, using TWRP on Hashcode's #10 ROM.
Works great, other than the DSP no longer works and the ROM likes to throw an occasional error at boot up to tell me so. I think this is generally intentional on the part of Beats, since it now manages sound. Since stock DSP no longer manages sound, it would make sense it no longer works.
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I installed the Beats 5.1 ZIP from this thread, using TWRP on Hashcode's #10 ROM.
Works great, other than the DSP no longer works and the ROM likes to throw an occasional error at boot up to tell me so. I think this is generally intentional on the part of Beats, since it now manages sound. Since stock DSP no longer manages sound, it would make sense it no longer works.
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Yea I actually found beats audio in of all places the play store! Now I can flash it with any rom! Just get that " sound system has stopped" error on boot but it goes away and the sound is much improved.
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Yea I actually found beats audio in of all places the play store!
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WTF?!? IIRC, Beats and HTC have an exclusivity deal in place. I'm surprised HTC hasn't requested this be removed from Play.
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WTF?!? IIRC, Beats and HTC have an exclusivity deal in place. I'm surprised HTC hasn't requested this be removed from Play.
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Yep. It's just an Apk that builds a flashable zip that you use in CWM. I didn't think it would work , but it did.
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Hello to all, I was just wonder what sound enhancer people are using these days? I come from an Android device with DSPManager on it which would give extremely rich bass. Beats audio, although enhances my sound somewhat, is no comparison. I tried installing other EQ apps but they have no effect on my device. I think maybe the Beats engine is conflicting with other EQ plugins.
If anyone could share what they use or how they got it to work I would much appreciate it I'm thinking about rooting my device and uninstalling Beats with Titanium just to test it out. Thanks guys!
I'm pretty sure I saw another thread about this. As you may already know, Beats is just a bass heavy EQ setting.
I don't know why certain DSP programs don't seem to have any effect on this phone. The only consensus I've seen if that apps like PowerAmp work the best for actually tweaking the EQ.
IDK why lots of people diss on Beats Audio on their phone. I've tried most of these eq apps and Beats gives me the best sounding music through my ear buds than any other. JMHO
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Not dissing, I really like Beats Audio. I'm just an audiophile and I love to tweak my sound to perfection
I would like to see DSP manager working on our One S because personally I believe it's the best
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For gingerbread I use beats audio and for ICS I use DSP manager
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How did you get dsp manager working, are you on sense?
Seriously nobody here uses poweramp? Best music player + equalizer out there. I found it better than dsp and very easy to understand what you are doing. You can also combine it with the beats audio and make an amazing eq for your liking.
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How did you get dsp manager working, are you on sense?
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I am completely in my senses brother. And installing DSP manager on ICS is not a big task. Do you want a proof ?
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I am completely in my senses brother. And installing DSP manager on ICS is not a big task. Do you want a proof ?
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He meant are you on sense UI
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Lol yea. I meant the HTC's user interface 'Sense'. The thing your phone shipped on. And yes, I am starting to use PowerAMP again and it works amazingly well. I used to use it on my old device in combination with DSPManager
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Lol yea. I meant the HTC's user interface 'Sense'. The thing your phone shipped on. And yes, I am starting to use PowerAMP again and it works amazingly well. I used to use it on my old device in combination with DSPManager
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Yeah poweramp is amazing
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He meant are you on sense UI
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Lol. Sorry my mistake
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elracing21 said:
Seriously nobody here uses poweramp? Best music player + equalizer out there. I found it better than dsp and very easy to understand what you are doing. You can also combine it with the beats audio and make an amazing eq for your liking.
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I've been using Poweramp for a couple years and I love it. The options and the equalizer are outstanding. I was just comparing it with Beats and there is no comparison in my opinion. I am not sure what Beats does. A t-mobile sales guy told me it decompresses the sound file. Whatever it is I am not impressed and it seems like marketing hype to me. I would prefer to remove it. I just signed with t-mobile and I am checking out the service and the phone so I am not ready to root or flash. I have not even seen a way to disable beats.
It's easy to disable. Plug in a headset, go to Sound and there you have an option for Beats. On German One S it's name is: Klangverbesserung. I don't know the english name.
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It's easy to disable. Plug in a headset, go to Sound and there you have an option for Beats. On German One S it's name is: Klangverbesserung. I don't know the english name.
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Thanks. I should have thought to plug a headset in and then look for settings. Eviently disabling it in the notification bar did the same thing although at the time the notification option was persistent. It is gone now.
BEATS
beats is the most powerful tool to optimize the music.. works with my gaming Headset and Bose in Ear.. Top Sound..
I just traded a watch for some beats headphones (studios) and realized the integrated beats thingy has no affect one beats headphones. If you shut it off the headphones automatically adjust back to "beats" performance. Idk what this concludes but thought I would share.
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From my experience, Beats boosts both treble and bass, thus making it sound richer. It is disabled by going to Settings>Sound>Sound Enhancer. Just click 'no enhancements'. Headphone must be plugged in to do so. I leave it enabled in combination with PowerAmp for pretty good quality. Still not as good without DSPManager :'(
Started to use Poweramp before DSP was invented The EQ is doing a good job and for the most time i like the sound of it. In the first days of DSP I uninstalled it because it drained to much battery.
Beats is also nice, but i don't like that it turns on for every sound the phone does.
So i am finaly back to deinstalled DSP & Beats and using Poweramp only =)
Hey guys, resently i have been testing some roms like,supercharged v6,Sonya and lithium.
I found that the lithium one its the best of them three (in my opinion) because of it's battery life and great stability.
If you want a great rom to put inside your atrix 2 i recommend Lithium with the beats audio drivers mod found on this forum.
Beats Audio:
It's in his develoment state but with this mod flashed in our Rom' we can get awesome results for listening to music.
Beats Audio its a flashable zip file that can be flashed with cwm.
You can find allthis files mentioned above in this forum:
1.Lithium rom can be found in develoment secion in Motorola Atrix 2 forums.
2.Beats Audio can be found by typing in the search bar Beats Audio.
All credits to its current developers.
HOPE ILL HELP ALL THOSE MUSIC LOVERS OUT THERE..
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did you try the motorola standard effects? works damn well for me...
i dont think its that much(if at all) better to justify the bloat
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did you try the motorola standard effects? works damn well for me...
i dont think its that much(if at all) better to justify the bloat
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I have been testing it for i while now, yes i have tried the standard effects for now (my opinion is) that the bass effect in its standard Bass sound effect makes the playing music to much noisy (depending of what type of music) but in all it's very good.
I agree that Beats Audio does a pretty good job in destroying music quality. It's more a novelty, than an improvement to sound. Just my two cents worth... but Lithium is an awesome rom. Definitely one of my favorites!
Yes' beats audio is an alternative to those that like to listen to music in a loud state' in other ways.
Yes i agree with you that lithium is a great rom and one of ny favorites too. Glad to hear that.
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Yes' beats audio is an alternative to those that like to listen to music in a loud state' in other ways.
Yes i agree with you that lithium is a great rom and one of ny favorites too. Glad to hear that.
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Lithium comes with the beats mod and Xloud baked in it
JRW
Yes it does'
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