Hi
The 2X seems to have same sound hardware (Wolfson WM8994 ) as the Nexus S, would it be possible to get the advantage of the voodoo sound kernel later?
Hi Dev's,
Well recently I switched to Incredible S and I am looking for a voodoo sound enabled kernel but I can't find it.
Well I used voodoo sound kernel on my last cell and it was awesome...
So can you guys please port the voodoo sound for Inc S as well or not?
Then don't try to use any phone with Qualcomm SoC, I haven't seen one that has dedicated DAC let alone the Wolfson DAC that Voodoo sound kernel mod required.
[ranting]To add insults to injuries HTC went to Beats for their "expertises" in music reproduction. If only they went with one of Sennheiser, AKG, Bayerdynamic or Ultrasone... Beats is not an audiophile brand.[/ranting]
Was very happy to see the latest "Stable" CM9 released a few days ago. Been using it, and it looks like a winner!
Then I listened to some music. Oi! What the hell, did I just bust my headphones?
The sound quality is awful to say the least. It's always been like this for earlier ICS builds.
Can anyone shed some light as to why CM9/ICS audio quality is really bad? Did a search and all I can find was a thread saying that the RC1 candidate had this problem due to an audio routing issue.
Thanks in advance.
The.Opethian said:
Was very happy to see the latest "Stable" CM9 released a few days ago. Been using it, and it looks like a winner!
Then I listened to some music. Oi! What the hell, did I just bust my headphones?
The sound quality is awful to say the least. It's always been like this for earlier ICS builds.
Can anyone shed some light as to why CM9/ICS audio quality is really bad? Did a search and all I can find was a thread saying that the RC1 candidate had this problem due to an audio routing issue.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
am looking to flash to cm9's stable release as well and seeing your post has made me think otherwise... so far are there any other bugs or issues you've encountered?
By the way, i've only flashed ROMS a few times, i'm currently running cm7.2.. is there any particular method to follow if i were to flash cm9? or do i just install the zip file through cwm recovery?
thanks mate! cheers!
The only major issue is the sound quality. I've tried CM7.2 and the sound is superb, with CM9 the drums turn to tin can drumming! LOL
What's worse if you enable any DSP effect (which is fab in CM7.2) it just makes it much worse.
Other than that, the build is stable fast and very nice! It looks like an entirely new phone altogether. Now if we can get this issue fixed on the sound, it would be a proper release!
I've tested using Apollo Player, PowerAMP and Winamp. All of them sound really bad.
Hope this helps!
An update. Apparently, the cardboard drumming is only apparent for AAC HEv2 converted files. It goes away listening to anything 128kbps or more. BUT! Sound is still nowhere near as good as on CM7.2. It's like night and day.
This may be an obvious question, but have you installed Voodoo Sound?
decided to flash cm9 already last night and everything went really well. flashed it in less than 10 minutes.
anyway, so far sound quality isn't really that bad. I'd say average. it's not great, but not bad. haven't tried any other formats rather than mp3s and wavs but they seem to sound okay.
have you tried reflashing?
Try devil3 ics kernel. Voodoo Sound should fix the probelm
Sent from my GT-i9000, cm10 alpha, devil3 1.1.3
Thanks for that, tried it out and also decided to flash to TAJB v7.1
It's a JB ROM based on CM10 and the devil kernel. Sound is better.
Sent from my GT-P6200 using Tapatalk 2
Thank you all for your replies. Yes, I have installed Voodoo sound. Well done on supercurio for creating that. Unfortunately, all it did was amplify the rotten sound signal. Just hearing louder cardboard drumming on it.
Have posted this issue on the CM forums and haven't received any reply LOL
Testing audio quality on cutom ROMs (CM and AOKP)
Hi there (audiophile here, so haters stay away)! Been searching the forums and Google for a discussion on this, finally found it..
Been looking for a custom ROM for my SGS (I use a SGSII as my actual phone, and the SGS as a separate media player, since I can completely strip the SGS BARE ), something to basically turn it from a phone into a media player (like the Samsung Galaxy Player) lol.. Because I heard great things about supercurio's voodoo sound and the wolfson DAC I had to give it a go
As a side note, voodoo sound gives me great amplifications without distortion and the sound is good. I don't think it's leaps and bounds better in QUALITY compared to the Yamaha in the SII, but the amplification definitely is (and I need the amp because I use beyerdynamic 32 Ohm cans which are pretty hard to drive )
Anyhow, I digress... Tried different ROMS, all with voodoo sound installed (i.e. all rooted). Tried stock Gingerbread, along with CM7.2 (Stable), CM9 (Nightly), AOKP M5 and M6.
Perhaps it is the "placebo effect", but I find the dynamic range and sound-stage is completely destroyed by the custom ROMs (or is it the kernels?).. The only ROM that I can listen to comfortably is the stock ROM (with stock rooted kernel by Chainfire). Does anyone agree with my observations? Would love to see if it's just me or I might be onto something?
I haven't tried CM9 stable on my SGS yet so maybe that's improved. But I am really torn. The stock rom is f***-ing (are we allowed to swear on these forums?!) slow! The phone is nearly unusable compared to AOKP/CM.
So what's the solution guys?! Are we tied to the stock rom to achieve the best audio quality? Or is there a custom rom out there that is lightening fast but preserves audio reproduction quality?!
Please discuss your findings here!
Cheers!
Thanks for your post there, I thought I was the only one! It looks like we won't get much more assistance as the devs are probably focusing on higher priorities right now.
I too have this problem. I used to have a nokia 500 , with which i had downloaded many original songs from nokia music , but since i used mobile data to download , the songs are 32kbps bitrate.
In cm9 , the bass cracks like anything. in cm10 , the bass is smooth and nice sounding. I tried copying cm10 audio libs to cm9 , but no changes occur.
The only way to solve this problem is to use songs with a bitrate of 160kbps +. Even then , cm10 has better sound quality. CM9 is a lot more stable , wish someone could port cm10 audio libs to cm9
Damn, cheers for that feedback. Nice to hear that at least the sound on CM10 is good! CM9 music... urgh... A pity since music is a major driver for me.
inverse_of_zero said:
Hi there (audiophile here, so haters stay away)! Been searching the forums and Google for a discussion on this, finally found it..
Been looking for a custom ROM for my SGS (I use a SGSII as my actual phone, and the SGS as a separate media player, since I can completely strip the SGS BARE ), something to basically turn it from a phone into a media player (like the Samsung Galaxy Player) lol.. Because I heard great things about supercurio's voodoo sound and the wolfson DAC I had to give it a go
As a side note, voodoo sound gives me great amplifications without distortion and the sound is good. I don't think it's leaps and bounds better in QUALITY compared to the Yamaha in the SII, but the amplification definitely is (and I need the amp because I use beyerdynamic 32 Ohm cans which are pretty hard to drive )
Anyhow, I digress... Tried different ROMS, all with voodoo sound installed (i.e. all rooted). Tried stock Gingerbread, along with CM7.2 (Stable), CM9 (Nightly), AOKP M5 and M6.
Perhaps it is the "placebo effect", but I find the dynamic range and sound-stage is completely destroyed by the custom ROMs (or is it the kernels?).. The only ROM that I can listen to comfortably is the stock ROM (with stock rooted kernel by Chainfire). Does anyone agree with my observations? Would love to see if it's just me or I might be onto something?
I haven't tried CM9 stable on my SGS yet so maybe that's improved. But I am really torn. The stock rom is f***-ing (are we allowed to swear on these forums?!) slow! The phone is nearly unusable compared to AOKP/CM.
So what's the solution guys?! Are we tied to the stock rom to achieve the best audio quality? Or is there a custom rom out there that is lightening fast but preserves audio reproduction quality?!
Please discuss your findings here!
Cheers!
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I agree with you...Sound quality improves to some extent by using equalizers apk in stock roms
I got good sound effects in vortex ROM & Ac!d player.Please try & let me know
Hi,
I'm new to Android. I tested once my Logitech UE6000 headphones (which i highly recommand) with my friend i9300 phone and was amazed by the power and quality. I then decided to buy a i9305 so that i could have extra RAM and 4G but i can't get the same sound. I have already rooted and tried two ROMS :
[ROM][5 JULY][XXBMF1-V17] Ripper Rom Smooth, Stable [OTA,JKAY,240Dpi,Customizable]
and
[ROM][LINARO][30/06/13]SentinelROM v4.80-CM10.1 Source-Fast, Stable, Battery[GPL]
I wanted to try the audio boost mods (the ones that modify Default_gain.conf files) but i realised this file doesn't exist on i9305. So i'm wondering if the i9305 do have the Wolfson audio DAC first and then if there is a way to boost the volume
the thing is it doesn't that's what you get for the cost of 4G and 2Gb of ram
Actually i thought i had made enough researches but not
I did a cat /proc/asound/cards and was able to see the WOLFSON. I had to put a 4.1.2 ROMS as it seems the 4.2.2 with CYANOGEN 10.1 don't have the default_gain.conf file. I don't know why but whatever my problem is fixed and i can enjoy amazing sound quality now
Hey guys,
I was looking for a good quality mp3 player recently to use with my entry level ATHm20x and it was a surprise for me to find out that the old SGS had the best audio chip among phones. So, now i use this phone mainly as a audio player. flashed cm10.1 and installed voodoo control by supercurio and the sound quality is amazing.
I just wanna ask if the newer roms runnig android5 or 6 or support this voodoo sound? (roms with stock kernel)
Im currently on jb 4.4.2, its smooth and fast, how does new builds compare to this?
And its amazing to see the amount of dev support this phone getting, there's something magical about this little thing.
cheers
christo_tj said:
Hey guys,
I was looking for a good quality mp3 player recently to use with my entry level ATHm20x and it was a surprise for me to find out that the old SGS had the best audio chip among phones. So, now i use this phone mainly as a audio player. flashed cm10.1 and installed voodoo control by supercurio and the sound quality is amazing.
I just wanna ask if the newer roms runnig android5 or 6 or support this voodoo sound? (roms with stock kernel)
Im currently on jb 4.4.2, its smooth and fast, how does new builds compare to this?
And its amazing to see the amount of dev support this phone getting, there's something magical about this little thing.
cheers
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They do. Not sure about other LP/MM ROMs but i was able to play 24/96 flac files on Resurrection Remix using USB Audio Player Pro, without resampling.