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[info] Beats Audio ... Fake optimisation..

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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aNYthing24 said:
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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HaKyLON said:
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?

aNYthing24 said:
It's a gimmick. CM7's DSP Manager is better, imo.
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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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austendale9 said:
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.

piimp said:
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

vincepg13 said:
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.
Sent g.

[Q] Is there a hack for BEATS audio to work in more than....

...the HTC Music Player.
Currently it only works in the built in music player. Bummer. I was hoping any music app on the device would be able to use Beats Audio.
RW

raerae28 said:
...the HTC Music Player.
Currently it only works in the built in music player. Bummer. I was hoping any music app on the device would be able to use Beats Audio.
RW
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Nope beats only work with HTC music player.Sound really good with a little eq,HTC music player isn`t that bad,i like it

I have an HTC ONE V, and my Beats Audio works with the Poweramp music player also, EQ settings and all.
I tested it with Beats on and off and Beats works with it, whether through headphones or Bluetooth.

Han_Dez said:
I have an HTC ONE V, and my Beats Audio works with the Poweramp music player also, EQ settings and all.
I tested it with Beats on and off and Beats works with it, whether through headphones or Bluetooth.
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Sense 4 Allows Beats To Run When You Use Your Headphone Even Without Music Player Running

FreexZx said:
Sense 4 Allows Beats To Run When You Use Your Headphone Even Without Music Player Running
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Do You Really Need The First Letter Of Each Word To Be A Capital?
And poweramp allows beats audio, even on sense 3.6 but really guys, all this hype over beats audio - its just an EQ profile, nothing more...
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Hi,
how do I enable beats on non-sense ROM ? or you saying it will not have effect on audio quality ?
As I understand, I need to flash extra mod ?
there is an app on google store, that says it enables beats audio, but I don't this its working, cause Poweramp is not showing beats settings.
thanks a lot !

ancient86 said:
Hi,
how do I enable beats on non-sense ROM ? or you saying it will not have effect on audio quality ?
As I understand, I need to flash extra mod ?
there is an app on google store, that says it enables beats audio, but I don't this its working, cause Poweramp is not showing beats settings.
thanks a lot !
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For non-sense ROMs, you're better off flashing THIS

try flash Anthrax kernel. it has system-wide beats support.
beats is like, 40% rom and 60% kernel, i heard.

Rajan_96 said:
For non-sense ROMs, you're better off flashing THIS
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+1 for BASSmod, works well with AOSP roms
Beats is overhyped, nothing special about it. I can tweak the EQ in PlayerPro and the music will sound tons better than Beats. maybe its all about personal preference, or youd just like to see the Beats symbol on your status bar lol

aznprodgy said:
Beats is overhyped, nothing special about it. I can tweak the EQ in PlayerPro and the music will sound tons better than Beats. maybe its all about personal preference, or youd just like to see the Beats symbol on your status bar lol
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I agree with this, I have my own custom EQ profile that to my ears sounds much much better than beats - beats is lacking in mid and the bass isnt too great either (yes its an improvement on no effect but still not enough for me)

Beats audio in ARHD rom?

first Thread here, please be kind.
first of all, awesome website, awesome developers, and awesome ARHD roms.
i flashed my sensation with ARHD sensation XE rom and it has been nothing but awsome so far. however, as a audiophile myself, i cannot help but noticed something changed in the audio department.
with the default HTC audio player, the music became almost unlistenable without Beats enabled. the overwhelming amount of bass pretty much ruins everything. I don't recall this was the case before flashing the ARHD rom. and when i use 3rd party player (like Winamp) with no EQ change, the music is on par with using HTC audio player with Beats turned on.
so here is my theory:
1. HTC is really play dirty here by purposely making the musics sounds so bad that user has to enable the Beats audio on models that support Beats audio.
2. Sensation is not compatible with Senstion XE rom?
is this an isolated case? or are you guys all experiencing it?
Thanks

Never had that, flash again maybe?
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yes... I also facing same issue when listen to music using poweramp. But as far as I know beats function only work with stock music player.

Sensation-al! said:
Never had that, flash again maybe?
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i think i flashed a number of times and i have noticed this every time.
could you do test on your phone?
listen to a music file with HTC music player with beats off, and beast on.
and listen to the same file with a 3rd party player with flat eq setting.
since 3rd party player cannot trigger beats audio, it should sound just like HTC player with Beats disabled.
my problem is it sounded like HTC player with beats enabled, while the HTC player with beats disabled sounds like carp (granted my head phone cost as much as sensation itself so i might hear a bit more, but the difference should be very significant to spot with just regular earphones)

For ICS, HTC have modified the Beats algorithm (imho)
So now, beats enabled is as the player should be,
Beats disabled, has HTC crippling the sound to make Beats sound better than it is
I think.....
A very nice posting from my ARHD XE

Sorry but.... do you guys use piracy OLD version of power amp? New version of it has Beats Audio in EQ. Better just buy Power Amp and get an update with Beats Audio in EQ And on topic, I don`t have this issue. Maybe it`s related on headphones, as I`m using headphones from SE Xperia Arc S, but with some others headphones sound is really bad.

I don't use Beats anymore as it sucks out my battery.
Google Music has pretty nice sound, don't need more than that.

I've found that using dsp manager as well as beats audio gives the best sound.
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Beats audio?

Hey guys, I see that a lot of ROMs have beats audio ported. On the HTC Sensation, would the Beats Audio port be equivalent to a HTC One S in terms of sound quality? And what exactly does the Beats Audio mod do to the sound?
Thanks

hyudryu said:
Hey guys, I see that a lot of ROMs have beats audio ported. On the HTC Sensation, would the Beats Audio port be equivalent to a HTC One S in terms of sound quality? And what exactly does the Beats Audio mod do to the sound?
Thanks
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Just applies an equilizer preset.

Remember that on the xe original 3.6 stock Rom, if you don't plug in headphones with a Mic you get the bass boost preset - that or beats. If you want pure sound without any effects for.your good headphones, perhaps you should try either a sense 4 rom or a pure ics one, or not using HTC built.in music player
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Sense 4.0 (ordroid) now sounds different, for the worse and j believe it is being worked on. Otherwise you can always try android revolution hd
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Beats audio gone? URGENT

Okay I flashed the cyanogenmod rom... and im not sure if i still have my beats audio because everytime it used to show a beats audio logo on the top and even in the notification bar and it had a circle with a green check next to it giving u the option to turn off and on beats audio...now not so much.. can someone tell me if i do or not and can u help me get it back if not?

Beats audio was more of a software than a hardware feature on the One X. The cm10 people and probably most of the us who use it would prefer and point you towards the DSPManager app that is installed. That gives you a fuller control over the equalizer and is typically better than the beats audio software.

Also try jet audio player.. It's awesome and has an equalizer, a bunch of presets, and you can really tweak the sounds.. I look in the themes and apps to find a copy
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You should be glad.
Beats audio is just a gimmick. An equalizer, a software feature, not hardware.
The audio engine that comes with CM10 is much better , and acid audio,,etc.

hyun18 said:
You should be glad.
Beats audio is just a gimmick. An equalizer, a software feature, not hardware.
The audio engine that comes with CM10 is much better , and acid audio,,etc.
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Agreed. Beats isn't even necessary if you use an amplifier like Poweramp. What Beats adds is hardly anything but a bit of low bass resonance. If its off and you have an equalizer you can easily make up the sound difference with said equalizer.
I happen to enjoy Poweramp. It turns my car audio setup Into an even more powerful stereo due to preamp etc.
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