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[Q] Xperia Z's Audio DAC ?

Hi all !
Does anyone happen to know how good the DAC is on the Z ?
Thanks !

phone isnt out yet..

smaghe said:
Hi all !
Does anyone happen to know how good the DAC is on the Z ?
Thanks !
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It's integrated in S4pro chip, just like N4 and OG

Thanks noxlord !
Bad news for us then ...
@lokenok Thanks Mr Obvious.

In s4pro really good DAC but quiet. So question whether there are additional amplifiers.

This is SONY we're talking about... they always paid lots of attention to their devices' Walkman feature so i'm sure they won't screw this one up.

I seriously hope the DAC is good..although there is always the root tweaks

If the DAC is not good, tweaks won't help. But I'm also confident that Sony did their work great.

NOTE 1 has a bad DAC but with tweaks it sounds great!

The HTC One s was loud and that has a S4 chip, I have also listened to the Nexus 4 and the audio is very good, also xperia T is good but just needs to be a bit louder

Yeah, sound is said to be really good on N4, but really low too.
I hope Sony techies will amplify the sound. I'd really love to use good IEMs on this device.

My local three store had a xperia z today (was very surprised at this actually) had over and hours play with it love everything about it and the audio is very good, it is more than loud enough. I also played with the nexus 4 again and the Z is louder not that the nexus 4 is low in volume.

RWSAMHTC said:
My local three store had a xperia z today (was very surprised at this actually) had over and hours play with it love everything about it and the audio is very good, it is more than loud enough. I also played with the nexus 4 again and the Z is louder not that the nexus 4 is low in volume.
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What about THAT display??

dibdin said:
What about THAT display??
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Nothing short of amazing, I was amazed by the screens on the Xperis S & T this one is a whole new league and plus its the first 1080p screen I have seen. It is just amazing and totally cannot wait to get mine on feb 28th or march 1st.

@dibdin There's already an interesting screen topic in Q&A. Let's keep it about the sound here.
@RWSAMHTC Thanks for your input ! Which kind of headphones did you try it with ? Do you know their impedance ?

smaghe said:
@dibdin There's already an interesting screen topic in Q&A. Let's keep it about the sound here.
@RWSAMHTC Thanks for your input ! Which kind of headphones did you try it with ? Do you know their impedance ?
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I tried it with my urbeats in ear headsets. I tried 15 different types of songs from bashment, reggae, rnb etc. I mostly like bass and loudness and the xperia z did very well I am very please with it. Loudness in headphones was always my main issue, now I dont need to worry about that. I also tried the loudspeaker it was loud enough not the loudest of speakers but loud enough. couldnt try any phone calls though. Also test camera and video and video audio quality which on my one x and sgs3/gn2 wasnt the greatest atall. Very impressed with the z really. Atm the only think i think it needs is a blocking mode for calls and texts.

OK great to hear [no pun intended] that the sound is 'LOUD'..Other aspects like the bass and all can be tweaked..i was hoping that i wont have to carry an amplifier.

I played around with different equalizer settings, really impressed with bass and the loudness

Odp: [Q] Xperia Z's Audio DAC ?
So the loudness of a speaker is comparable due to Xperia T?
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AmberBoy said:
So the loudness of a speaker is comparable due to Xperia T?
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Loud speaker seems louder than the T, the Ts loudspeaker was just poor imo.

sound & camera performance.

What do you think of this phone's sound sounds like, especially with headphones or external speaker playing music or videos?
Im still on lg optimus 2x. Is there any1 in here coming from the same phone could do the comparison for me?
Camera and video recorder too, please.
Thanks.

Stock camera app is terrible, as I noticed after I installed "HDR camera+". The difference in quality is hugely significant.
The sound is very fine on the headphones, especially with poweramp installed (320KBPs 44.1KHz). I think the phone speaker sounds very 'tinny', as in low quality. It does go very loud though.
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Thanks.
I mostly listen to music and looking at the clock with cellphones.

iKlutz said:
Stock camera app is terrible, as I noticed after I installed "HDR camera+". The difference in quality is hugely significant.
The sound is very fine on the headphones, especially with poweramp installed (320KBPs 44.1KHz). I think the phone speaker sounds very 'tinny', as in low quality. It does go very loud though.
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agreed on that... the stock camera quality is bad...sound however considerably god for me....

Thanks for replying.

Earphones for your Honor 7 ?

Wondering what earphones you use ? I have been eyeing the Huawei AM180 for some time now.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...for-Mate-7-black-1pcs/428079_32335105932.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...i-Fi-In-ear-Headphone/903269_32452173593.html
The alternate is the Soundmagic E10s which has good reviews.

warea said:
Wondering what earphones you use ? I have been eyeing the Huawei AM180 for some time now.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...for-Mate-7-black-1pcs/428079_32335105932.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...i-Fi-In-ear-Headphone/903269_32452173593.html
The alternate is the Soundmagic E10s which has good reviews.
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wow, not that cheap. but nice.

I'm not a great lover of mushroom type earphones, and like to be able to hear what's happening around me (especially walking through city centres). I do like in the ear though, and the older style ones are getting difficult to find, but I use these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121569462946 which are cheap, sound OK, and don't break too easily.

lybad said:
I'm not a great lover of mushroom type earphones, and like to be able to hear what's happening around me (especially walking through city centres). I do like in the ear though, and the older style ones are getting difficult to find, but I use these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121569462946 which are cheap, sound OK, and don't break too easily.
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I think that in this case of you really like good quality of sound Koss porta pro is the best choice.
Sent from PLK-TL01H

Skullcandy Smokin buds 2 wireless
http://www.skullcandy.com/headphones/SMOKINBUDSBT.html
Really nice bass, noice canceling (also for people around you), no annoying wires and they just look so nice in black/red.
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Is there any whatsapp group of honor 7.I want to join it.

AKGs all the way
I use a pair of AKG K77. Possibly the best Headphones you can buy within their price range.

Latest dual hybrid from xiaomi
Tapatalked with Honor 7

RHA ma750i, although made for Apple, works like a charm.

Try xiaomi piston v3, they are very good

crasbas said:
Try xiaomi piston v3, they are very good
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MI Hybrid is better

http://www.philips.fr/c-p/SHQ6300OR_00/casque-sport-bluetooth
12 grams, supra aural BT 3.0, waterproof. Via BT sound bad,like all,but Viper4droid,DDS for other philips with similar curve, and a upsampling via IRS to 32bit/48khz (44khz BT limited),sound pretty good in MP3 240/Spotify.
But if you conect via jack amd play loseless flac music,same config and add DD Atmos ,sound amazing. Maybe no so good ñike other HiFi top earphones ,but very very good,and 12g ,waterproof and 30 pounds,are nice,and you can connect other earphones to BT module,as well

Xiaomi Piston for sport and Sennheiser momentum Over Ear for pleasure

I think the starting question is wrong. It´s not the device that determinates the phones.
It is the wallet, first, then type of music you ear and personal preference in the way each one ears music.
Some bass heads like beats products, but what they listen is not the music as it was recorded: it's artificial enhancements, and that's fine. Some like more details in metallic instruments and others in voice and other that just want to listen to the music as they were at the studio at time of recording.
So it's up to you. You can check here.

crasbas said:
Try xiaomi piston v3, they are very good
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doongoo said:
Latest dual hybrid from xiaomi
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inside!out said:
MI Hybrid is better
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AhhdafunK01 said:
Xiaomi Piston for sport and Sennheiser momentum Over Ear for pleasure
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Guys, Im checking some possibilities - do all pilot controls of Xiaomi Piston v3 work 100% with H7?
(they work if dual hybrid and Piston v2 work)
warea said:
The alternate is the Soundmagic E10s which has good reviews.
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And does someone have newest version of Soundmagic E10M - ver.2 (with 3 button pilot)? This is also the question whether pilot works fully or not.
(This is proper Soundmagic type A / iPhone ver and middle button will work but dont know if volume buttons will)

adxuser said:
Guys, Im checking some possibilities - do all pilot controls of Xiaomi Piston v3 work 100% with H7?
(they work if dual hybrid and Piston v2 work)
And does someone have newest version of Soundmagic E10M - ver.2 (with 3 button pilot)? This is also the question whether pilot works fully or not.
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I have mi hybrid, piston gen 2 and 3. All headphones fully compatible with honor7 and all pilot buttons works fine
Sent from my PLK-L01 using XDA-Developers mobile app

best wireless headphone i have ever heared:
http://www.teufel.de/kopfhoerer/move-bt-p16096.html
yes i know it is not cheap, but it has the best sound i ever heard. Playtime up to 20h! Recharged in less than 2h! ( best, but of curse at my opinion )
combined with Neutron music player it sounds really fantastic

Try Audio Technica ATH-CLR100.

non-toxic said:
best wireless headphone i have ever heared:
http://www.teufel.de/kopfhoerer/move-bt-p16096.html
yes i know it is not cheap, but it has the best sound i ever heard. Playtime up to 20h! Recharged in less than 2h! ( best, but of curse at my opinion )
combined with Neutron music player it sounds really fantastic
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Seem great. Too bad BT doesn´t handle uncompressed music well. I mostly ear FLAC without any EQ.

couldn’t believe that you will be able to hear a difference between both ways on a Honor 7 because this is the wrong hardware for it!
But it should be good enough for a older man to hear good music during jogging etc.
Did you see, that the headset use Bluetooth 4.0 with apt-X® ?
Anyway, my suggested combination was the best quality i ever heard on my phone!
But this is also a results of using this great NEUTRON music player app too!!!

Speaker & Audio-Quality

How is the speaker audio-quality compared to something like HTC One devices?
Is the DAC & AMP somewhere near the quality of the HTC 10, LG V20 or Axon 7?
Regards Forsaked

I can only compare to the iPhone 6S.
The speaker of the P10 is a bit louder, but on the loudest setting it sounds a bit distorted or overdriven. When I set 2 steps down it sounds like the iPhone 6S in direct comparison. The loudest setting is good for ringtones and they sound really well, if you don't have songs like metal or trance as ringtone.
With headphones (Beyerdynamics DT-770) and some FLAC files I couldn't hear any differences.

Pocketnow made an audio review for the P10.
https://youtu.be/jBzEmOhfcSU

The loudness of headphone output is 1/3 of iphone 7, 40% quieter than Galaxy S7. Not very loud. Both Phonearena and GSMarena confirm this.

I can confirm that the sound in P10 is very nice in Bowers and Wilkins P5 jack.
If you run flacs and Hi-Res Audio its very nice. Blutooth in AAC is also nice.
The Sound in P10 is designed by Hardan Kardon and the DAC is made of Yamaha Commercial Audio
It is well enough loud, if you use the Huawei music app you must run DTS.
Its pros is rock, blues, vokal, acoustic, jazz, funk etc... The sound is egaging, dynamic, detailed and lively better than iphone 4S, and other mobiles ive tried. The phones strongest audio card is something called SEPARATION, between instruments, that is simply outstanding. You hear details of what drum it is, clear vokal, and all the instruments is well placed in a room.
Classical sounds nice, but is not its strongest card, it could have more clarity and focused details..
If your are a Beats head, that damage your ears with hiphop, Skrillex and tekno at high volume, maybe your not satisfyed.
I cranked House of Pain Jump around in Poweramp, and that sounded nice.
HTC 10 should on the papers have better audio sound tho.

But I want to know if the Huawei P10 is ready with drivers to connect a Dac via USB for example Dragonfly.
I ask this because alot of other people wants to know the same.

Works with ESS chipset in the B&O modular for the LG G5.

I prefer to disable DTS. Nice sound but the volume is a little lover than Htc

I just want to give my opinion on this:
I have both the Axon 7 and the P10 Plus and I must say that output is better in the P10 Plus, and I don't understand why.
I don't know what kind of sorcery does DTS mode, but it pumps the sound in a really nice way.
When you disable DTS, Axon 7 sounds better in HiFi res.
Probably is because there is no way to use the AKM DAC on the Axon 7 with a proper equalization, so even when the sound is good, it can't be used along the Dolby Atmos feature. Dolby Atmos only kicks in when using the speakers, or if you want to use it with headphones, it will automatically change to Snapdragon DAC. So far there is no way to use Atmos and the AKM dac together.
I'm using Sony XBA-H1 which I find pretty decent earbuds to test this.
:good:

Its Confirmed by Huawei that P10 use the latest Hi6403 soundchip (typical with Kirin960) that supports Hi-Rez
Its rumoured that Harman Kardon, and Yamaha Commercial Audio group has worked on the sound in P10

It's just to bad that the amplifier is to weak. It makes the volume lower than the competitors.

ClausG76 said:
It's just to bad that the amplifier is to weak. It makes the volume lower than the competitors.
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I don't know, but this P10 Plus sounds better than my Axon 7, and is supposed that Axon 7 is the best audio phone.
Activating DTS make everything more punchier and richier.

The Audio quality is great. But the low volume might be because of some EU regulations.

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The Audio quality is great. But the low volume might be because of some EU regulations.
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Problem is that we don't have a way to equalize the output using the high quality dog, because as long as we turn on Dolby Atmos, it changes to Qualcomm one.
Is a pity we don't have a stock or default equalizer besides Dolby Atmos, because is useless if we want the best quality out of the headphone jack.

I don't know if this trick or a simualy trick works
https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p9lite/how-to/guide-increase-headset-volume-t3624236

ClausG76 said:
I don't know if this trick or a simualy trick works
https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p9lite/how-to/guide-increase-headset-volume-t3624236
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Is not only about the volume, but more of the equalization, and no trick can help with that.

Galaxo60 said:
Is not only about the volume, but more of the equalization, and no trick can help with that.
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Poweramp?
Just hoping that beta testing is done soon for Hi rez audio version...
Sent fra min VTR-L29 via Tapatalk

Imnotdriving said:
But I want to know if the Huawei P10 is ready with drivers to connect a Dac via USB for example Dragonfly.
I ask this because alot of other people wants to know the same.
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Just connect and Play... I use a dragonfly Red, and It works fine

Have no problems with volume on my Sony 100 headphones jack and Poweramp or Sony music player Hi-rez
But sad not Poweramp has Hi-Rez support for Hua yet....
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Have no problems with volume on my Sony 100 headphones jack and Poweramp or Sony music player Hi-rez
But sad not Poweramp has Hi-Rez support for Hua yet....

Using stock music player with my Trinity Master IEM (2BA drivers, 1 dynamic) and it has the best sound output so far among my existing devices (xiaomi mi3, nexus 5, oppo f1s). The sound is crisp and full. With DTS, everything sounds louder but more artificial.

Question Mi11 Lack of Bass?

Hi Guys
Any way to make the Mi11 to sound better?

If you are rooted try James DSP with it's IRS files, it makes the speakers live again.

Not rooted

The equalizer not help?

The Stereo speakers are lacking bass

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If you are rooted try James DSP with it's IRS files, it makes the speakers live again.
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With so many options available, can you please share your configurations?

I had gf like that... try some headphones, buds instead. A man needs his bass

PandaKiller said:
With so many options available, can you please share your configurations?
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I use the viper irs Collection specifically beats Dolby or Dolby surround

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I use the viper irs Collection specifically beats Dolby or Dolby surround
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Dolby is an inferior music encoding algorithm.
Ok for movies and games, most times.
I use Poweramp and wav/HDCD files.
Poweramp has one of the best or best graphic equalizer for Android.
When listening to music Dolby is always kept disabled... feel the wuv.
On a high end system I use it only for Dolby encoded movies.

GUARDIANBD said:
The Stereo speakers are lacking bass
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Mi10 got better speaker, there is almost no bass comapre to Mi10

Linuxkek said:
Mi10 got better speaker, there is almost no bass comapre to Mi10
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Yeah, i thought it will be better because of Harman Kardon. I was using Iphone 12 before this device and must say that Iphone is on another level in terms of sound.