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Hey all!
Introduction:
I am an audiophile. I like good quality music. Previously, I had SGS1 and its Voodoo Sound was just sick. With Spotify 320kbps music and good headphones the sound was awesome.
I know that SGS3 has also configurable Wolfson audiochip, but official Voodoo Sound is missing.
However, in Siyah kernel theres some configuration options available. There's some hw eq presets in STweaks, but I looked for something more clear and more bass. So I made some custom eq, which sounds good to my ear:
Headphone Amplifiaction level: 63
Eq presets: use grpaphical eq
Band1: 11db
Band2: 12db
Band3: 2db
Band4: 9db
Band5: 8db
FLL tuning: enabled
Dac oversampling: enabled
Say your opinions and share your settings!
I'm also an audiophile, I haven't tried your settings yet(I will). But I tried multiple settings in Stweaks before and never got satisfied. Finally I flashed Ac!d Mod and installed Poweramp. Ac!d installs Noozxoide EIZO rewire.
Here are my settings
Noozxoide Line-Out-Monitor
Xlimiter ON - Effect Strenght = Moderate
Psychoacoustic ON - Effect Strenght = Medium
Balanced X-EQ ON
Digital Preset = audiophile
LogicSurround ON - Room Size = Room
Poweramp
EQ set to ROCK
Stereo X = Middle
Headset = Sennheiser IE80
With this settings I get a sound like I never had with any kind of earphones of any phone(Nokia N8 was pretty close). I hear instruments and rhythm I've never heard before. Even in bands I'm listening over 30years.
Anyway Just wanted to share.
laehtis said:
Hey all!
Introduction:
I am an audiophile. I like good quality music. Previously, I had SGS1 and its Voodoo Sound was just sick. With Spotify 320kbps music and good headphones the sound was awesome.
I know that SGS3 has also configurable Wolfson audiochip, but official Voodoo Sound is missing.
However, in Siyah kernel theres some configuration options available. There's some hw eq presets in STweaks, but I looked for something more clear and more bass. So I made some custom eq, which sounds good to my ear:
Headphone Amplifiaction level: 63
Eq presets: use grpaphical eq
Band1: 11db
Band2: 12db
Band3: 2db
Band4: 9db
Band5: 8db
FLL tuning: enabled
Dac oversampling: enabled
Say your opinions and share your settings!
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I quit using siyah because i had some lags(although except that i loved it and i'll try the next stable version again)
but wouldn't these settings be way too boomy and cause much distortion?
I remember having [email protected]
Headphone Amplifiaction level: 48-52(depends)
Band1: 4db
Band2: 3db
Band3: 2db
Band4: 3db
Band5: 4db
And i was quite satisfied.
Anything over that would cause distortion for me though...
These are my headphones:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/577508/jvc-ha-fx1x-xtreme-xplosive-impressions-hopefully-fan-thread
Kremata said:
I'm also an audiophile, I haven't tried your settings yet(I will). But I tried multiple settings in Stweaks before and never got satisfied. Finally I flashed Ac!d Mod and installed Poweramp. Ac!d installs Noozxoide EIZO rewire.
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Thanks for the settings! Gonna have a try. You prefer Ac!d, is the bass clear wit that? Because for me, bass is quite important. You'll hear all sounds from the music, like bass quitar, like you said.
nfsmw_gr said:
I quit using siyah because i had some lags(although except that i loved it and i'll try the next stable version again)
but wouldn't these settings be way too boomy and cause much distortion?
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Thanks for your setting, will have a try. Yeah I know, sometimes STweaks crashes. And maybe yes, it was quick try to get good bass and deep sound. Btw sick headphones, however in-ear doesnt fit to my ear very well. Does those have good bass play?
Btw, which genres of music do you like?
I listen pretty much everything, i.e 80's music (awesome!), Pink Floyd (some really good songs, like Learning To Fly), Dire Straits ( Brothers in Arms!) to name just random examples. But I can say hardstyle is maybe my favourite atm. Noisecontrollers - So High is a good example.
cough cough.....erm..... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633685
Official Sound Quality thread
laehtis said:
Thanks for the settings! Gonna have a try. You prefer Ac!d, is the bass clear wit that? Because for me, bass is quite important. You'll hear all sounds from the music, like bass quitar, like you said.
Thanks for your setting, will have a try. Yeah I know, sometimes STweaks crashes. And maybe yes, it was quick try to get good bass and deep sound. Btw sick headphones, however in-ear doesnt fit to my ear very well. Does those have good bass play?
Btw, which genres of music do you like?
I listen pretty much everything, i.e 80's music (awesome!), Pink Floyd (some really good songs, like Learning To Fly), Dire Straits ( Brothers in Arms!) to name just random examples. But I can say hardstyle is maybe my favourite atm. Noisecontrollers - So High is a good example.
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Yes,i heard that those earphones don't fit in everyone's ears....
The sound of these is incredible for me!
I love it!
Great bass,and good mids/highs....8.5-9/10 for me!
I mostly listen to house,some pop,dubstep,hip-hop,and a lilte metal and rock!
I'm pleased with them...
Hi guys. I want to get this table, but first of all i want to make sure this has best Sound quality with the headphones(i don't care about the speakers). How does it compare with Galaxy S3 in terms of sound quality ??
I do own a galaxy S3 and a Nexus 10. The sound quality of S3 is awesome specially with the Siah kernel. The sound with the same headphones is good but not at par with the S3.
There are some MODs you can flash to improve the stock sound, like the ACID Audio Engine: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923630
I think the dac isn't enabled good by niw with alsamixer you can do a lot of mods to get it working i don't know what switching this does but for me it sounds better for you it can sound the same and it is maybe a placebo but we have a wolfsondac so maybe is supercurio compiling voodoosound for us
Sent from my Nexus 10 using xda app-developers app
Edit: on gnex we also have some sort of audiomode with high performance sound
Hi, first time android owner here. I recently switched to the CM nightly builds, which I am loving, however I have noticed the audio quality has dropped of dramatically since switching from the standard oppo fw. Now I am streaming my music from google play which AFAIK was unaffected by the dolby sound and the dirac audio features of the oppo ROM. Is this something that should be expected? Its bad enough that Id rather not listen to music at all. Also is there a possibility of porting the audio features of the standard Oppo ROM to the current CM builds?
At this point I think id rather use a buggy, less functional oppo rom with great sound quality and that just sucks:crying:
I'm a music lover and have pretty good ears, I really like cm10.1 and other roms but the reason I left it (besides being a beta tester) is because of lag that happens after a few hours and also because of the issue with audio quality. Yeah it looses quality. Oh and camera quality as well
Sent from my Oppo Find 5
I haven't noticed much of a drop in quality, but I didn't stay on stock for long. Maybe I'll switch back to stock on the next beta and see what the audio and camera are like. I have no camera on my current ROM.
Sent from my Find 5 using Tapatalk 2
I should mention I'm also streaming over blue tooth when making this comparison.
earphones
osmosizzz said:
I'm a music lover and have pretty good ears, I really like cm10.1 and other roms but the reason I left it (besides being a beta tester) is because of lag that happens after a few hours and also because of the issue with audio quality. Yeah it looses quality. Oh and camera quality as well
Sent from my Oppo Find 5
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Well didi you try to listen music with different earphones ? Shipped earphones can only work ith dirac "ON".
I tryed to use Oppo earphones on HTC and they sounds poor. Also I found poor sounding Find 5 with HTC beats audio earphones.
If you find some conclusion pls let me know, because I'm not willing to use custom rom ..... for now. :victory:
THX
Grimmy91 said:
And do you think that oppo has a better audio than htc or with the beats EQ the One is better ? Maybe with using some good headphones like AKG sennheiser etc...
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I have had both HTC One X, and the Droid DNA and I think Oppo sounds better. I don't know about the New HTC One with Boom-Sound though?
Grimmy91 said:
And do you think that oppo has a better audio than htc or with the beats EQ the One is better ? Maybe with using some good headphones like AKG sennheiser etc...
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Oppo is champ !!! But they(OPPO & DIRAC) made calibration with shipped earphones.
When u use other earphones u must disable DIRAC
otherwise sound is crap.
DIRAC sounds good only with shipped earphones and far far better than anything eles !
I am big audiopile and so far there was no phone to listen music on.
http://www.cabasse.com/cabfx2012/ba...ic-on-wall-baltic-on-base-santorin-30?lang=en
I own a pair :victory:
whynotbgd said:
Oppo is champ !!! But they(OPPO & DIRAC) made calibration with shipped earphones.
When u use other earphones u must disable DIRAC
otherwise sound is crap.
DIRAC sounds good only with shipped earphones and far far better than anything eles !
I am big audiopile and so far there was no phone to listen music on.
http://www.cabasse.com/cabfx2012/ba...ic-on-wall-baltic-on-base-santorin-30?lang=en
I own a pair :victory:
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Completely agree. Dirac sounds horrible with anything other than the stock earphones.
osmosizzz said:
Completely agree. Dirac sounds horrible with anything other than the stock earphones.
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Sounds like Dirac is nothing more than marketing bull**** to describe an EQ preset that works around crummy earphones... Kinda like HTC's Beats Audio (which is just a crappy EQ preset too).
No No No
Entropy512 said:
Sounds like Dirac is nothing more than marketing bull**** to describe an EQ preset that works around crummy earphones... Kinda like HTC's Beats Audio (which is just a crappy EQ preset too).
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It's not bull.... and for sure this is not just an EQ preset like HTCs Beats Audio.
Most of brands use branded cost effective solution (EQ based) to impress customers but Oppo does not.
DIRAC correct phase to firms up the bass, removes resonances, focuses the stereo image and makes voices stand out like you never have heard them before.
whynotbgd said:
It's not bull.... and for sure this is not just an EQ preset like HTCs Beats Audio.
Most of brands use branded cost effective solution (EQ based) to impress customers but Oppo does not.
DIRAC correct phase to firms up the bass, removes resonances, focuses the stereo image and makes voices stand out like you never have heard them before.
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All marketing mumbojumbo for "cheesy postprocessing and/or lame EQ preset"
The fact that it only works to "fix" Oppo's cheap earbuds is a clear sign that it is just an EQ preset designed to compensate for the deficiencies of cheap earbuds.
All of the research I've read indicates that DIRAC serves to do only one thing: Compensate for cheapo earbuds to make them sound better. It will make good earbuds/earphones sound like crap, and is unncessary with them.
When you can get Monoprice 9927s for <$10:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10823&cs_id=1082303&p_id=9927&seq=1&format=2
http://lifehacker.com/5991079/monoprice-improves-on-the-best-7-headphones-youll-ever-buy
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-headphones-under-30/
And Comply foam replacement tips for $15:
http://www.complyfoam.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Comply-T-400-Isolation-Earphone-Medium/dp/B002NUJ2RM/ (for the non-waxguard version, waxguard is $20 for three pairs)
It's pointless to waste time working around crappy cheap OEM buds.
Edit: In general, Comply foam tips are one of the best "bang for your buck" upgrades for any earbud (except ones that already have foam tips)
Yeah, honestly, this crap is like the same BS they pull with Pixel count in cell cameras.
I have some very nice Westone buds that sound amazing on any phone I've had. Turn off all the garbage and you get yourself a hell of an audio experience. These guys feel like they have to provide some audio gem in name because these bloody devices are phones, not good quality audio gear. If you want to bump your audio experience, go get a portable amp and melt your brain.
The Oppo and CM sound great. Only need I have for the DSP is to tweak the sound of the speaker for voice calls.
Is there a different type of bluetooth used by cm compared to stock Oppo ROM? I read something about different compression formats like apt-x. Perhaps cm just needs a bluetooth overhaul.
crackalac87 said:
Is there a different type of bluetooth used by cm compared to stock Oppo ROM? I read something about different compression formats like apt-x. Perhaps cm just needs a bluetooth overhaul.
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I have had no issues with Bluetooth with my Sony bluetooth headset.
Google completely replaced the entire Bluetooth stack with 4.2
crackalac87 said:
Is there a different type of bluetooth used by cm compared to stock Oppo ROM? I read something about different compression formats like apt-x. Perhaps cm just needs a bluetooth overhaul.
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I used to have the s3 and apt x enables headphones and the sound quality is just on another level! Standard bluetooth SBC suports stereo up to 345kbps but idk why, for the most part, they end up sounding bad in most cases. Apt-x lets better audio pass though with minimal compression.
read these two wikies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBC_(codec)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt-X
now for dirac, it may just be an eq thing but idk. speaker sound much better with audio calls and just playing music. there is bass, and mids added (looking like an eq thing as of now). When it comes to music listening, without any mod, cm10 doesnt sound that great. With the V4A sound mod, it sounds really good. V4A sound mod on stock rom helps but not too much. IDk what oppo has done, butif there is no specific hardware thing within the phone that is activated with any rom, then i guess it;s an eq thing? anyone correct me if im wrong
osmosizzz said:
I used to have the s3 and apt x enables headphones and the sound quality is just on another level! Standard bluetooth SBC suports stereo up to 345kbps but idk why, for the most part, they end up sounding bad in most cases. Apt-x lets better audio pass though with minimal compression.
read these two wikies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBC_(codec)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt-X
now for dirac, it may just be an eq thing but idk. speaker sound much better with audio calls and just playing music. there is bass, and mids added (looking like an eq thing as of now). When it comes to music listening, without any mod, cm10 doesnt sound that great. With the V4A sound mod, it sounds really good. V4A sound mod on stock rom helps but not too much. IDk what oppo has done, butif there is no specific hardware thing within the phone that is activated with any rom, then i guess it;s an eq thing? anyone correct me if im wrong
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I'm positive it's an EQ thing. Might be able to achieve similar results by playing with DSP Manager
I feel like the audio quality improved on the external speaker with cm10.1
osmosizzz said:
speaker sound much better with audio calls and just playing music. there is bass, and mids added (looking like an eq thing as of now). When it comes to music listening, without any mod, cm10 doesnt sound that great.
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Entropy512 said:
I'm positive it's an EQ thing. Might be able to achieve similar results by playing with DSP Manager
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I'm having big battery issues with my Galaxy S2 and was considering the switch to the Find5, the good sound quality being one of the strongest argument for me so the fact that Dirac is only an EQ to compensate crappy earbuds is kinda bumping me out
A long long time ago I used to listen to music on a iAudio X5 / Shure E4g combo, with great quality (the integrated EQ helped, but still wow, great sound). Now I'm on the GS2, and it's fine with a pair of Ultimate Ears 400vi but I'm not coming back to crappy earbuds, so if the only plus of the Find5 in the audio corner besides the speaker is an EQ then I guess I'll have to wait until the next big cheap thing
What do you think? Considering Oppo opened its sources from the start is it possible that the sound capabilities of the stock rom get ported to other roms like CM?
osmosizzz said:
With the V4A sound mod, it sounds really good. V4A sound mod on stock rom helps but not too much?
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How does it work on CM? Gotta test that right away on my S2
You definitely have to play with v4a until you get the right sound for you. And sound settings varies from headphone to headphone
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May be an eq thing but stock ROM produces better sound and louder volume. Bass is also stronger on stock ROM.
Sent from my Find 5 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
whynotbgd said:
When u use other earphones u must disable DIRAC
otherwise sound is crap.
DIRAC sounds good only with shipped earphones and far far better than anything eles !
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took your statement and did a test myself on stock rom and on firefly (international) , found some good music and hooked up the stock headset in the find 5, sounds great with DIRAC , as you said, then switched headset after have playing music in a periode, then tested with DIRAC enabled on my beats audio headset (stock from htc sensation xl), and sound was still really good, not much diffrent, only beats had more bass , but that headset is also a inear headset, which usually gives more bass.
Then just today, after flashing a codefireXperimental rom, as name say, not released at all, and then tested both headsets again, this time, ofc without DIRAC, but nothing else, no audio mods at all. and stock headset is a little bit more bad in cfxp than in stock with DIRAC, but not at all as in other custom roms ive tried. then switched to beats headset, very little diffrent here, from stock rom with DIRAC and now in custom rom.
After all, i think that audio quality ,cant only be blamed at DIRAC , if you look in this link , its pretty impressive who uses DIRAC, so im sure its not crap only
whynotbgd said:
Shipped earphones can only work ith dirac "ON".
Also I found poor sounding Find 5 with HTC beats audio earphones.
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Thats not true, it works fine without DIRAC enabled, and after testing my own beats headset with dirac and without in custom roms, i dont hear at all that the sound is more bad with Dirac than it is without, infact i like the audio more with my find 5 and beats audio, even in cfxp, than i do with beats audio on my htc sensation xl.
Today I bought a new note 3 and it's a really awesome device, but I was really disappointed with its audio quality.
I'm not talking about the speaker quality which is very bad indeed, because it is not as important to me as headphones audio quality output.
I tried to enable and change the adapt sound settings, and to change the equalizer, but my galaxy s4 still sounds way better to me.
Maybe that's because of the audio chip? I got the i9500 and n9005 versions.
Help me please
TheNewLegend said:
Today I bought a new note 3 and it's a really awesome device, but I was really disappointed with its audio quality.
I'm not talking about the speaker quality which is very bad indeed, because it is not as important to me as headphones audio quality output.
I tried to enable and change the adapt sound settings, and to change the equalizer, but my galaxy s4 still sounds way better to me.
Maybe that's because of the audio chip? I got the i9500 and n9005 versions.
Help me please
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Only real option is to root and apply a sound mod but even then, they distort the audio once it gets raised so high, Not a lot else you can do really.
radicalisto said:
Only real option is to root and apply a sound mod but even then, they distort the audio once it gets raised so high, Not a lot else you can do really.
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We'll I don't want to root my phone anyway..
I thought the sound would be better on the note, that's really disappointing
Yeah it's certainly not the best, I can from a HTC One.. so it sounds bad compared to that, but tbh it's OK for me I don't need it super loud. According to some tests on various review sites it's not much different to the Note 2 in terms of loudness apparently.
TheNewLegend said:
Today I bought a new note 3 and it's a really awesome device, but I was really disappointed with its audio quality.
I'm not talking about the speaker quality which is very bad indeed, because it is not as important to me as headphones audio quality output.
I tried to enable and change the adapt sound settings, and to change the equalizer, but my galaxy s4 still sounds way better to me.
Maybe that's because of the audio chip? I got the i9500 and n9005 versions.
Help me please
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The Qualcomm audio chip is never going to sound as good as the Wolfson chip, and there's really nothing you can do about it.
Hi
I got a tab s2 (t713 variant) few days ago but i was very disappointed of the output quality from it's stereo speakers , i have a samsung note 8 which is 3 years-old and still provide much more better quality than the tab s2 and as i'm a music lover i used to spend many hours every day listening to music so i kept trying to find a solution (an optimization) for the speakers quality and i came out to find this awesome mod :[eXtremeBeats Aural Maximizer™]
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634729
How to install :
-you must have root
-disable samsung sound alive app
-download the mod zip file
-flash it using twrp
-set selinux to permissive following this turtioal
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/how-to-set-selinux-to-permissive-boot-t3034245
-enjoy the new sound
messi2050 said:
Hi
I got a tab s2 (t713 variant) few days ago but i was very disappointed of the output quality from it's stereo speakers , i have a samsung note 8 which is 3 years-old and still provide much more better quality than the tab s2 and as i'm a music lover i used to spend many hours every day listening to music so i kept trying to find a solution (an optimization) for the speakers quality and i came out to find this awesome mod :[eXtremeBeats Aural Maximizer™]
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634729
How to install :
-you must have root
-disable samsung sound alive app
-download the mod zip file
-flash it using twrp
-set selinux to permissive following this turtioal
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/how-to-set-selinux-to-permissive-boot-t3034245
-enjoy the new sound
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I am going to give it a try. From your experience, is it better sound from its speaker or from its headphone? I don't use headphone with my Tab S2.
myeepad said:
I am going to give it a try. From your experience, is it better sound from its speaker or from its headphone? I don't use headphone with my Tab S2.
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i don't use headphones too . it make an improvement in the speaker sound
messi2050 said:
i don't use headphones too . it make an improvement in the speaker sound
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This will be good. I shall turn it up loud and test that tonight when I am home.
I installed the mod and set the selinux to permissive, froze the soundalive (can't disable so freeze it with Titanium BK), Samsung Music still plays well, but how do I know the mod is working?
myeepad said:
This will be good. I shall turn it up loud and test that tonight when I am home.
I installed the mod and set the selinux to permissive, froze the soundalive (can't disable so freeze it with Titanium BK), Samsung Music still plays well, but how do I know the mod is working?
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You should feel the difference according to the developer
Any updates on this? Wondering if anyone else has tried this mod and their results.
messi2050 said:
You should feel the difference according to the developer
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i installed beats and dobly atomos and viper. From what i can tell nothing will make these cheap speakers sound better. S2 2014 has more bass but doesnt get as loud. S2 2015 gets a little louder but sacrifices bass. In general my note 4 or 5 speak is 3 or 4 time better than these junk.
monkeyass408 said:
i installed beats and dobly atomos and viper. From what i can tell nothing will make these cheap speakers sound better. S2 2014 has more bass but doesnt get as loud. S2 2015 gets a little louder but sacrifices bass. In general my note 4 or 5 speak is 3 or 4 time better than these junk.
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i agree
When i want good sound, i stream music from my S2 to my vintage 1980s stereo speakers with a 10 inch woofer, 4 inch midrange and 2 inch tweeter. The S2 is so thin, the speakers are probably 3 mm. Is it any wonder the sound is crappier than a cheap pair of earbuds?