We all know the HTC One M9's sound is some of the best, if not the best around. And HTC made a pretty big deal about it with the unveiling.
I was waiting for Samsung to mention the sound of the S6, but they never said a word. Sound is very important to me in a phone and a dealbreaker if it's really poor.
Does anyone know what the specs are for the onboard sound?
Not much detail has come out other than the fact that the speaker is at the bottom and I think AndroidCentral said Samsung claimed its 50% better sound than S5, then added "and we agree that it doesn't sound as terrible" (I believe source is their review preview of S6) I personally use Bluetooth LG Tone+ so I almost never have to sorry bout the onboard speaker.
it will be louder, but as all samsung phones, it will still sound like a tin can. maybe one day samsung will finnally start taking notes from HTC (and the Sony Z3) when it comes to making a phone with proper sounding speaker(s) on a $500 device+
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it will be louder, but as all samsung phones, it will still sound like a tin can. maybe one day samsung will finnally start taking notes from HTC (and the Sony Z3) when it comes to making a phone with proper sounding speaker(s) on a $500 device+
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Honestly I doubt it, I don't think people use phone speakers enough to care. Most people just use Bluetooth speakers or head phones as opposed to the device's built in speaker, probably not worth the investment for Sammy. I like the idea don't get me wrong, just don't see it happening, at least not anytime in the next couple years.
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Honestly I doubt it, I don't think people use phone speakers enough to care. Most people just use Bluetooth speakers or head phones as opposed to the device's built in speaker, probably not worth the investment for Sammy. I like the idea don't get me wrong, just don't see it happening, at least not anytime in the next couple years.
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earbuds for music, yes, but a phone is a multimedia devices (videos, movies,etc) where dual front speakers really shine..
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Let me know where you can get an S6 for $500 please !!!
I reckon Samsung didn't mention it because they know it's something they won't beat HTC on with their current design structure.
Until you see two large speaker grilles on Samsung's devices like HTC's, there won't be any competition on that front. Software tricks only go so far.
Now what they could (and should) potentially look into is making a spectacle of the devices' abilities when it comes to headphone usage. That's something that they can make their mark with without the necessity of altering their more "form meets function" design style as opposed to HTC's more "function over form" style.
HTC boomsound speakers blew on my m7, several times. The m8 sounded good, but it doesn't justify such a terribly long phone with a 5" screen. That bezel is worse than iPhone bezels.
It's ugly. If the trade off for better speakers equals that design, then no way.
Missed the OP's question and just took it as a chance to complain about Samsung.. (tft)
Seriously. What are these HTC fan/Samsung hater people even doing here???
TO the OP.
I haven't seen the specs anywhere yet.
Note 4 Exynos had the Wolfson DAC. We can hope the premium S6 will get the same attention.
Most don't have a good enough system hooked up to the device to even notice the on board differences so I'm not sure it really matters.
Those that do have a good system probably aren't using a phone, as is through the headphone jack are they?
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Thanks.
Massive difference in speaker from S5 to S6...
It has a WolfsonMicro WM1840 sound chip.
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It has a WolfsonMicro WM1840 sound chip.
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Is that good?
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Missed the OP's question and just took it as a chance to complain about Samsung.. (tft)
Seriously. What are these HTC fan/Samsung hater people even doing here???
TO the OP.
I haven't seen the specs anywhere yet.
Note 4 Exynos had the Wolfson DAC. We can hope the premium S6 will get the same attention.
Most don't have a good enough system hooked up to the device to even notice the on board differences so I'm not sure it really matters.
Those that do have a good system probably aren't using a phone, as is through the headphone jack are they?
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it's called opinions, and everyone is entitled to have one. i have owned 3 galaxies since the s2, so i am aware of how crappy sounding samsung speakers have always been. it's fact that sony, htc, and hell, even apple have better sounding phones. it has sh*t to do with being a htc or Sony fanboy..
the s6 finally has improvement in sound, but nothing to brag about when comparing to other phones on the market.
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yeah but i think thats for the headphone jack only, the wolfson DAC is the best out of all the devices out there
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Found some interesting videos showing off the video and audio capturing performance of the S4 and HTC One.
Full review can be found here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/smartphones/22096/samsung-galaxy-s4-vs-htc-one-camera
HTC One
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We already knew the HTC One had very good audio recording quality, that said, I'm very impressed with the S4's audio recording quality as well.
Yup. Although I do go to concerts, I never record the live performance. Still, it's good to see the GS4 can handle audio recording pretty decently even in that environment.
Is it just me or does S4 in this video have significantly better audio? Sounds more clear and less noisy?
Camera, HTC looks a bit more saturated than S4 to me.
When i listen to the two examples on my one the one's recording is clearly better, the sgs 4 sounds quite high pitched, the singers voice and cymbals aren't great.
Let's just hope HTC doesn't have to remove those microphones.
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Let's just hope HTC doesn't have to remove those microphones.
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"-HTC will transition to improved microphone designs once its inventory of STM microphones is exhausted."
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/24/htc-nokia-injunction/ (under Press Release)
The GS4 clearly sounds better there, a lot clearer.
I wanna know how well it does with loud music though because all Samsung handsets in the past have struggled so much you might as well not bother.
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The GS4 clearly sounds better there, a lot clearer.
I wanna know how well it does with loud music though because all Samsung handsets in the past have struggled so much you might as well not bother.
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I'll be taking a One/S4/808 to a Tool gig in a couple of weeks.
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I'll be taking a One/S4/808 to a Tool gig in a couple of weeks.
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I listened to one of the other videos and the HTC One sounds better there where it had more bass..... so I'm afraid it'll suffer from the same issues.
I also don't get why the FoV is so narrow, it's nice in a way because it is more zoomed in, however that is the only situation really where you'd want that.
Both are very impressive quality, I still can't quite understand the rationale of recording gigs rather than just enjoying them, but at least doing it now means you get a decent recording and not an unintelligible mess.
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When i listen to the two examples on my one the one's recording is clearly better, the sgs 4 sounds quite high pitched, the singers voice and cymbals aren't great.
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When I listen to it on my PC, with a dedicated sound card, and through my speakers and sub. They sound so close in quality. I would give the edge to the S4 though.
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When I listen to it on my PC, with a dedicated sound card, and through my speakers and sub. They sound so close in quality. I would give the edge to the S4 though.
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Lol,
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When i listen to it on my htc one without a dedicated sound card, through the onboard speakers it doesn't sound so close, i would definitely give the one the edge!
So much tension...
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Lol,
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When i listen to it on my htc one without a dedicated sound card, through the onboard speakers it doesn't sound so close, i would definitely give the one the edge!
So much tension...
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i listened to both on my 2.1 speakers both are very good
GS4 feels more natural , ONE feel like there is DRC on the audio
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When I listen to it on my PC, with a dedicated sound card, and through my speakers and sub. They sound so close in quality. I would give the edge to the S4 though.
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+1 probably subjective but I prefer the more clearer vocals without much background distortion. Both sound good obviously.
I wonder which one is more "accurate" though.
It's pretty common that a less accurate sound is more appealing to the ear (the reason why stuff like Beats is liked). I'd rather a more "accurate" sound be recorded; I can always apply the processing afterwards but I can't remove it if it's already there.
Ok I have to be honest while listening to it carefully on my Genius speakers the S4 sounded more sharp and more detail while the HTC One had bad noises lol
Haha post this in the HTC side the comments will lean more HTC LOL this threads funny every time I see this year after year whos better Sammy or HTC . Well I have the one and the I9500 octs on the way and the sprint s4 soon too . But last time around s3 was louder less clear than HTC also cam on HTC in tests with my friends s4 HTC has a slight edge on the cam quality but s4 has more features . I can say I'm not biased to either cause both are great the childish anger is silly though .
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Update on the S4 concert ability: not good
Skip to around 3:00 and "enjoy" the distortion... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2ryc-LTpI
Glad I got the One
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Update on the S4 concert ability: not good
Skip to around 3:00 and "enjoy" the distortion... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2ryc-LTpI
Glad I got the One
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So they have a defective mic, these things happen.
Wow, on my AKG K240 Studio Headphones the One really sounds distorted while the S4 sounds absolute clear. I am actually thrilled how good the recording with the S4 sounds, even there is no "Voodoo Sound" (anybody remember this from the S1?). There is a heavy pumping on the One where the S4 seems to handle the dynamic much better.
Really good job Samsung! :good:
I'm wondering if anyone has been able to figure out if the Nexus 5 has the Audience Earsmart noise cancellation chip, like the LG G2. That is the feature that I most miss from the Nexus One, when I upgraded to the Nexus 4.
Qualcomm's Fluence noise cancellation if far inferior to the Audience chip. But I don't really want to have to get the G2 or an S4 to get Audience's noise cancellation.
Well, if anyone is interested, AnandTech finally did one of their incredibly thorough reviews of the Nexus 5 and confirmed what I suspected, which is that the N5 uses Qualcomm's Fluence for noise cancellation, not the Audience chip:
http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/7
In their noise suppression test, the N5 did seem to do better than other Fluence based phones, so it's nice that Fluence may be improving. But it's still nowhere near as good as the Nexus One was with the Audience chip (or the iPhone 4, before Apple also bizarrely dropped the Audience chip from the iPhone 5).
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Well, if anyone is interested, AnandTech finally did one of their incredibly thorough reviews of the Nexus 5 and confirmed what I suspected, which is that the N5 uses Qualcomm's Fluence for noise cancellation, not the Audience chip:
http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/7
In their noise suppression test, the N5 did seem to do better than other Fluence based phones, so it's nice that Fluence may be improving. But it's still nowhere near as good as the Nexus One was with the Audience chip (or the iPhone 4, before Apple also bizarrely dropped the Audience chip from the iPhone 5).
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It's nice that we have something. I've talked to people before on IPhone 4's and it's unbelievable how well the noise cancellation works on those phones. One of our sales guys was in a very noisy factory and it literally sounds like he's in a mostly quiet room.
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It's nice that we have something. I've talked to people before on IPhone 4's and it's unbelievable how well the noise cancellation works on those phones. One of our sales guys was in a very noisy factory and it literally sounds like he's in a mostly quiet room.
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Yeah, I'd rather have some noise cancellation than no noise cancellation, but it's ridiculous how much better the Audience chip is than Qualcomm's Fluence, as you've experienced with the iPhone 4.
But the thing that's hard for me to let go of is that the Nexus One had the Audience chip (before the iPhone, by the way, but of course Apple still got the credit for "discovering" noise cancellation). Everything else since then has been a big step backwards. There's just no reason to have to put up with Fluence, when Audience exists. There's no reason the Nexus 4 and 5 should be leagues behind the Nexus One for any feature. And meanwhile Audience has been improving its chip, which was already even years ago way better than anything else available today.
The only company that seems to get this is Samsung. They put Audience in all their top end phones. It's so much better than everything else, why bother. I think everyone else is probably being cheap/greedy about the licensing fees. There's no excuse in a flagship phone. Apple has no excuse going backwards with the iPhone 5. Even HTC stopped using Audience. It was in the One X, but dropped in the One (shame on you HTC, the One is an expensive phone, you don't get to cheap out on the noise cancellation--especially since the One is supposed to be "the" high quality audio phone).
Anyway, perhaps one of these days I'll have to just get a Samsung phone. I really don't like the designs. But I really miss the Audience chip from the Nexus One.
In a phone that's counting every penny I can see exactly why Google did it. Always wondering how they got so much phone into such a small price bracket and this is just one more way they'd rather integrate then use a separate processor for. Maybe in the Moto X.
So my Nexus 5's speaker is absolute garbage compared to my Nexus 5. the range is just non-existent and it has incredibly bad distortion during phone calls, and most music and videos.
Right now i'm ready to return the phone and spend another year with my nexus 4 over it, but before i do, i'm curious to know if mine might just be defective.
So to all the other owners, do you have distortion, pops and the like when making phone calls or having any audio through and how does it compare to your previous phones, especially any other Nexus 4 owners.
Right now my N4 sounds like my $150 desktop speakers compared to the N5.
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So my Nexus 5's speaker is absolute garbage compared to my Nexus 5. the range is just non-existent and it has incredibly bad distortion during phone calls, and most music and videos.
Right now i'm ready to return the phone and spend another year with my nexus 4 over it, but before i do, i'm curious to know if mine might just be defective.
So to all the other owners, do you have distortion, pops and the like when making phone calls or having any audio through and how does it compare to your previous phones, especially any other Nexus 4 owners.
Right now my N4 sounds like my $150 desktop speakers compared to the N5.
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thats horrible, lets hope they are defective because i get my nexus 11/06 that would be a huge deal breaker if the speakers sounded like crap. coming from an htc one
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thats horrible, lets hope they are defective because i get my nexus 11/06 that would be a huge deal breaker if the speakers sounded like crap. coming from an htc one
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Yeah that's why i'm posting because i find it incredibly hard to believe that the Nexus 5, in 20 god damn 13 had worse speakers than my G1 from 2008. And just to test, i broke out my G1, MyTouch 3G and Nexus One, and played the same ringtones on each. No distortion on any device but the N5.
The Verge even said in their review that they had distortion on the speaker which almost leads me to think this is normal, and unacceptable.
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thats horrible, lets hope they are defective because i get my nexus 11/06 that would be a huge deal breaker if the speakers sounded like crap. coming from an htc one
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all reviews are saying the speaker is terrible. same with the camera. but they're comparing it to 600+ dollar phones, you get what you pay for, the bulk on the 350 dollars is going toward the processor and screen
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all reviews are saying the speaker is terrible. same with the camera. but they're comparing it to 600+ dollar phones, you get what you pay for, the bulk on the 350 dollars is going toward the processor and screen
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That is true, but my $300 Nexus 4 from a year ago sounds 100 times better than my $400 (32gb) nexus 5 from this year.
And also the whole $700/$350 thing is kinda bull****. Though that phone does cost $700 to buy, it costs the same as what a nexus costs, usually around $150-$200 to produce. Google just cuts out all the middle men and carrier BS to get the price to be that low. Yes they do make sacrifices but my damn G1 sounds better than my Nexus 5, so that has nothing to do with cost.
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So my Nexus 5's speaker is absolute garbage compared to my Nexus 5. the range is just non-existent and it has incredibly bad distortion during phone calls, and most music and videos.
Right now i'm ready to return the phone and spend another year with my nexus 4 over it, but before i do, i'm curious to know if mine might just be defective.
So to all the other owners, do you have distortion, pops and the like when making phone calls or having any audio through and how does it compare to your previous phones, especially any other Nexus 4 owners.
Right now my N4 sounds like my $150 desktop speakers compared to the N5.
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No, it's not just you, I thought it was me!
I came from an HTC One X and the call quality is terrible; a bit like what I imagine being a little bit deaf is like and when I'm playing a video or have a call on speaker, the thing buzzes and vibrates. Not good compared to my previous phone.
ugh. this isn't looking good. i really was hoping i was the only one. Hope we get a lot more replies here tonight.
Only one speaker?
On mine I noticed only one side is playing the music? anyone else?
I'm hoping it's something like a mic and speaker... and not a deffective
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On mine I noticed only one side is playing the music? anyone else?
I'm hoping it's something like a mic and speaker... and not a deffective
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thats correct. one side is the speaker and one is the mic. evidently this is normal practice on the iphone and many other devices. I just found out today.
Hows your quality though?
Two things i hear the crackle/pop on guaranteed is the ringing of a phone call and for some reason Lindsey Stirlings Crystalize, the first 30-40 seconds. lots of other examples but those two are the easiest and most noticeable i found.
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So my Nexus 5's speaker is absolute garbage compared to my Nexus 5. the range is just non-existent and it has incredibly bad distortion during phone calls, and most music and videos.
Right now i'm ready to return the phone and spend another year with my nexus 4 over it, but before i do, i'm curious to know if mine might just be defective.
So to all the other owners, do you have distortion, pops and the like when making phone calls or having any audio through and how does it compare to your previous phones, especially any other Nexus 4 owners.
Right now my N4 sounds like my $150 desktop speakers compared to the N5.
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On mine I noticed only one side is playing the music? anyone else?
I'm hoping it's something like a mic and speaker... and not a deffective
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Just got my white 32gb N5 today and indeed mine is suffering from similar issues. At first I was thinking my right speaker was DOA but I later learned it's not a speaker at all and is a mic - the N5 is a mono device. So, I played some music, an audio book and tried out some ringtones. A pop was audible on some ringtones and the audiobook. The sound gets pretty distorted when at the top two levels. I wonder if the pop is down to the audio coding because now I've downloaded higher quality files, the pop has gone away and distortion not quite as bad at high levels. Yet to try out a phone call over the speaker.
I've tested some music at 320 bit rate and hd video on youtube and the play store and same issues. and then no issues at all on the nexus 4.
Great I was so excited to purchase my first nexus phone. Ugh
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You know, I was at Pete's Coffee last night with my girlfriend and 2 people were talking next to us about this exact same issue. A man in his early 30s was talking to a buddy of his about the Nexus 5, and naturally, I zoned out from what my girlfriend had to say overheard their conversation.
They were talking about the Nexus 5 and how one of them who had the phone loved it, except he said the speaker was very poor quality.
Hopefully mine does not have this issue when it arrives this Thursday.
The Nexus 5's speaker is actually pretty darn good. Not quite HTC One level but damn close. It uses the same chip technology the HTC One has but only has a mono speaker on the bottom edge instead. It should be MUCH better than the Nexus 4, the Galaxy S4, or similar.
If it is sounding distorted, it is quite possibly a damaged speaker or chip, and should be RMA'ed. Reviews (unlike what some whacko said) have actually been pretty positive about the speaker.
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The Nexus 5's speaker is actually pretty darn good. Not quite HTC One level but damn close. It uses the same chip technology the HTC One has but only has a mono speaker on the bottom edge instead. It should be MUCH better than the Nexus 4, the Galaxy S4, or similar.
If it is sounding distorted, it is quite possibly a damaged speaker or chip, and should be RMA'ed. Reviews (unlike what some whacko said) have actually been pretty positive about the speaker.
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Your now the second person i've seen to say that it's good. How much have you tested it though? phone calls? loud movies? music?
I want to keep this phone, or at least get a replacement, but i got about 5 people with me saying they have similar issues so it's getting harder to imagine that it's a defect.
My sound is pretty faint. I'll be lucky if I hear a text or call
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I have played music from a couple different sources at full volume and I haven't heard any distortion.
I actually just watched a full review of the phone here in the General section, and he says the speaker is absolutely great! although he does not ever test in the video.
Been using mine all day. A bit of music and a fair few YouTube video and I've not noticed any problems at all. Nowhere near as loud as the Note 2 I'm coming from, but few phones are as loud as it. So far I'm happy with speaker quality
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Well since some of you do not seem to have this issue I'm going to hope those of us with it just have defective units and i'm going to exchange mine.
If the one i get has the same issues though, i'll be sticking with my Nexus 4 for another year.
Hello,
I did some reading on the Nexus 5 and most of its problems I can live with, but many people complained about bad sound quality via the headphone output.
Can you confirm or deny this? I use my phones mainly as mp3 players and therefore the sound quality is extremely important for me.
Honestly, I don't get what the fuss is all about. Perhaps I damaged my ears with loud music in my teenage years but think it sounds great (the headphone port, of course)
Plugging into the headphone jack on the Nexus 5, it actually sounds better than when plugged into my PC which has a Creative SoundBlaster Recon3D PCIe (~$150), if that says anything.
Coming from an S3 with Wolfson audio DAC (digital to analogue convertor) I think the Qualcomm DAC is substandard. I have a nice set of Audio Technica headphones, so the difference is noticeable. However, HOWEVER... I find with viper4android (which needs root) the audio quality on the n5 goes from "OK, nothing special" to "oh man, wha???" So I actually wouldn't swap it for anything right now. N5+Viper+good cans = fantastic experience
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Coming from an S3 with Wolfson audio DAC (digital to analogue convertor) I think the Qualcomm DAC is substandard. I have a nice set of Audio Technica headphones, so the difference is noticeable. However, HOWEVER... I find with viper4android (which needs root) the audio quality on the n5 goes from "OK, nothing special" to "oh man, wha???" So I actually wouldn't swap it for anything right now. N5+Viper+good cans = fantastic experience
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Yup. Viper makes all the difference.
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Yup. Viper makes all the difference.
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Coming from an S3 with Wolfson audio DAC (digital to analogue convertor) I think the Qualcomm DAC is substandard. I have a nice set of Audio Technica headphones, so the difference is noticeable. However, HOWEVER... I find with viper4android (which needs root) the audio quality on the n5 goes from "OK, nothing special" to "oh man, wha???" So I actually wouldn't swap it for anything right now. N5+Viper+good cans = fantastic experience
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I am a bit skeptical about this, can software tweak really fix hardware shortcoming of the sound module?
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Honestly, I don't get what the fuss is all about. Perhaps I damaged my ears with loud music in my teenage years but think it sounds great (the headphone port, of course)
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Can you tell me which headphones are you using? Some people are so used to crappy sound quality with $5 ear buds that they can't tell the difference (no offence meant )
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I am a bit skeptical about this, can software tweak really fix hardware shortcoming of the sound module?
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Yeah.
RabbiShe said:
I am a bit skeptical about this, can software tweak really fix hardware shortcoming of the sound module?
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Yes of course. All hardware is driven by software. The fault of the sound module could be hardware, in which case software can compensate for it by re-processing the audio.. Or even add CPU processing to give more powerful hardware processing to give better audio... OR the problem is software in the first place, in which case software can replace it.
For example, you can massively increase audio quality on a PC, for any app (including spotify and other streamin services) by cutting out unecessary processes and dedicating more resources to audio processing...
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http://www.windowsxlive.net/fidelizer/
Well, i decided to order it. I hope to god i'm not making a mistake, since it has to last me for at least 5 years, before i can get a new phone. Since i'm a just a poor peasant boy, with not many ducats in his pouch.
By the way, will flashing cm12 void the phones warranty?
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Well, i decided to order it. I hope to god i'm not making a mistake, since it has to last me for at least 5 years, before i can get a new phone. Since i'm a just a poor peasant boy, with not many ducats in his pouch.
By the way, will flashing cm12 void the phones warranty?
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You wont be disappointed. Like I said, I have some reasonably expensive headphones and after Viper, its a really pleasant experience.
Depends where you bought the phone regarding warranty. If you got it directly from play store, you're fine. Buying it anywhere else, the warranty is with LG not Google. They're a bit more picky as if the tamper flag has been triggered, LG are likely to refuse warranty, whereas google themselves dont care.
Damn, i knew it.
I went to pick up my nexus 5 and then, filled with excitement and xmass cheer, unboxed it at home. The very second i placed my finger on the on/off button i knew something was horribly wrong. It rattled. Somehow, almost a year later, i still got the flawed version of the nexus 5 from the early batch, which had the rattling button, small speaker holes and all those other nasty early adopter problems. I immediately jumped into my car and returned it (managed to do it just before the store closed for holidays pheww) and now my Christmas is ruined. :crying:
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Damn, i knew it.
I went to pick up my nexus 5 and then, filled with excitement and xmass cheer, unboxed it at home. The very second i placed my finger on the on/off button i knew something was horribly wrong. It rattled. Somehow, almost a year later, i still got the flawed version of the nexus 5 from the early batch, which had the rattling button, small speaker holes and all those other nasty early adopter problems. I immediately jumped into my car and returned it (managed to do it just before the store closed for holidays pheww) and now my Christmas is ruined. :crying:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49111828
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Damn, i knew it.
I went to pick up my nexus 5 and then, filled with excitement and xmass cheer, unboxed it at home. The very second i placed my finger on the on/off button i knew something was horribly wrong. It rattled. Somehow, almost a year later, i still got the flawed version of the nexus 5 from the early batch, which had the rattling button, small speaker holes and all those other nasty early adopter problems. I immediately jumped into my car and returned it (managed to do it just before the store closed for holidays pheww) and now my Christmas is ruined. :crying:
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This!
There is no "flawed" version. Its a cheap phone so quality control is not as strict as more premium phones. Some have big speaker holes some have little ones (and that makes no difference anyway) and some have loose buttons and some do not. Its just the way it is.
If you don't want a cheap phone, pay double and get something else
Also its worth noting that it depends how you press power buttons. If you tap it from 1 inch away, then all nexus 5 rattle. Actually in that case its the OIS in the camera rattling and not power button.
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Damn, i knew it.
I went to pick up my nexus 5 and then, filled with excitement and xmass cheer, unboxed it at home. The very second i placed my finger on the on/off button i knew something was horribly wrong. It rattled. Somehow, almost a year later, i still got the flawed version of the nexus 5 from the early batch, which had the rattling button, small speaker holes and all those other nasty early adopter problems. I immediately jumped into my car and returned it (managed to do it just before the store closed for holidays pheww) and now my Christmas is ruined. :crying:
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You've confirmed for yourself what we've been trying to tell people since December when the false rumor was started, there was no revision.
It's practically unheard of for any device to have a hardware revision only 1 month after launch, because that would mean they knew about the issue well before the launch but decided to release the defective devices anyways.
Funny enough the exact same fake rumor stuff is happening with the Nexus 9. One user compares 2 devices after an RMA and suddenly there is a "confirmed revision by HTC" rumors flying around everywhere. Hint: that didn't get a revision after only 1 month either.
Interested in other people's opinions on the S6's internal DAC. I just bought a Beyerdynamic A200P because it was on sale for $140. Eager to try it out I waited all week and received the unit last night and have been testing it for hours, doing many between headphones and ports, and honestly, I really can't tell any differences.
I was under the impression from audiosnob (audiophile) posts that the S6's internal DAC was basically garbage and that spending $70 or more on a simple accessory would be a night and day difference. I'm trying real hard to notice if there are any subtle differences but all I'm really sensing is volume differences; audio doesn't feel cleaned up, soundstages don't feel any wider, and I'm starting to suspect maybe it'd just be better to stick with the S6's standard hardware rather than carrying around and using other hardware.
The s6 internel dac is one of the best in the market for mobile phones. You wont need a dac for headphones you have. Only reason external dac is recommended for studio headphones with high impedance because they need the volume and power to drive them.
Comparing between external dac and the wolfson internal dac is nihil for your setup and just overkill
I was googling some questions and came across some threads/comments, they were old, from just at the time the S6 launched. I already knew Exynos SoCs typically had Wolfson SoC's, but that didn't keep people from ****ting on it. I didn't know why, I thought it sounded great, but when I don't have certain equipment people rave about, then I'm pretty much forced to take their word for it and try it myself. Never having a dedicated DAC for my phone(s), I didn't know what to expect, how much different music would sound, and to my surprise, I couldn't really distinguish any differences. Without a reference to go by, I don't know how good or bad I have it, I guess I just didn't know that I wasn't missing out on anything.
I think the lack of time I had to act on the sale rushed my decision.
Your not the only one who got misguided by those who are calling themselves audiophiles. Thats why im telling you.
Anyway you should try combination dolby atmos with vipermod. Gives a very nice bottom/fat sound and mid boost which i like alot
jody2k said:
Your not the only one who got misguided by those who are calling themselves audiophiles. Thats why im telling you.
Anyway you should try combination dolby atmos with vipermod. Gives a very nice bottom/fat sound and mid boost which i like alot
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gj,thx