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The question I have is specific to the Bass Boost feature.
When raising the level on the Bass Boost setting, shouldn't it increase the bass and not decrease it? .. I would think that using it in conjunction with the equalizer would yield awesome results but it just completely blows.
I've tried several options, Music FX (stock), Equalizer, Volume+ and DSPManager.
All act the same.
I come from a Nexus One where I used DSPManager through CM7 roms. The bass boost setting would actually BOOST the bass. Now, it just seems to lower the sound output level and doesn't really affect the bass in anyway at all.
I'm sure Im not the only one who sees this problem.
Is tehre a fix for this or is there something that I can do to help with this?
Please chime in with your comments.
thanks,
cchhat01
from what i read, bass boost doesnt work on ICS (yet)
....of course i could be wrong
volume+ bass boost works wonders
Boosting the bass ruins the sound. And I gotta tip my hat to TI for how awesome their sound chip is.
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English is not my native language.
cchhat01 said:
The question I have is specific to the Bass Boost feature.
When raising the level on the Bass Boost setting, shouldn't it increase the bass and not decrease it? .. I would think that using it in conjunction with the equalizer would yield awesome results but it just completely blows.
I've tried several options, Music FX (stock), Equalizer, Volume+ and DSPManager.
All act the same.
I come from a Nexus One where I used DSPManager through CM7 roms. The bass boost setting would actually BOOST the bass. Now, it just seems to lower the sound output level and doesn't really affect the bass in anyway at all.
I'm sure Im not the only one who sees this problem.
Is tehre a fix for this or is there something that I can do to help with this?
Please chime in with your comments.
thanks,
cchhat01
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ICS Music player has some problems, Bass Boost is one of them. It is working in reverse and the higher you put it up the more bass it cuts off. Don't use it if you need more bass.
Install another player with more control over EQ, bass, treble and cross bleed (poweramp, for example). I have been testing different players with some audiophiles and we are very impressed with the Galaxy Nexus! No noise or hiss.
Supercurio tested the Galaxy Nexus with analog headphone amp gain and it became totally black even with very sensitive in-ears!
i use volume+ with poweramp and it's awesome makes my $10 earphones sound like a $300 pair
supercurio's Voodoo sound not supported yet?
English is not my native language.
nexusphone_user said:
supercurio's Voodoo sound not supported yet?
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Not yet. The Galaxy Nexus uses a chip from Texas Instruments and Voodoo uses the Wolfson Audio.
The Supercurio dev got a Galaxy Nexus and he's working on it.
From Supercurio:
[email protected] Yes after study I can tell #GalaxyNexus will receive some #VoodooSound improvements. Screen: not studied enough yet.
tigajr said:
Not yet. The Galaxy Nexus uses a chip from Texas Instruments and Voodoo uses the Wolfson Audio.
The Supercurio dev got a Galaxy Nexus and he's working on it.
From Supercurio:
[email protected] Yes after study I can tell #GalaxyNexus will receive some #VoodooSound improvements. Screen: not studied enough yet.
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I am not sure I need voodoo...seriously though,I totally lived on voodoo on my galaxy s and my transformer ,but the galaxy nexus sound chip blows everything out of the water....I fall in love with it and my klipsch s4 every morning!
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psycho2097 said:
I am not sure I need voodoo...seriously though,I totally lived on voodoo on my galaxy s and my transformer ,but the galaxy nexus sound chip blows everything out of the water....I fall in love with it and my klipsch s4 every morning!
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I completely agree.
The Galaxy Nexus is a superb audiophile phone. When I plug my sennheisers and touch the play button (Poweramp, of course), the only thing I can say is WOW!
Not sure I agree with it being an audiophile phone, but it gets by. If you really want better bass, buy an external headphone amplifier (under $40) with a bass boost circuit. This may be more than some headphones can handles depending on the material. You can do lots with the built-in EQ on Winamp and Poweramp, though.
I have never been contented with the audio on galaxy Gio. In fact, galaxy mini cm7.2 is much louder.
I use Universal Mega Bass + Beats Audio for all GB-based ROM, but still need something louder.
Could I have something to increase the sound quality? I use cm7.2 03092012.
Thanks.
Maybe using dsp manager, its automatically installes
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Try to use a much louder headphones or earphones. I have a pair of SONY MDR V-700 and music sounds brilliant even without any eq. Of course there are many other head or ear phones that sounds great by default. I've used on an mp3-player some Sennheiser earphones that sounds also very good (with surprisingly enough dynamics for its class).
In my opinion, it's better to have some decent head or earphones, because not any eq form the world can transform your bargain earphones into something good.
best wishes!
Guys, I will be having a Verizon xperia Play in a few days. I wanted to ask what is your view on sound quality and bass as compared to phones like nexus S?
Well for me sound quality isn't equivalent to the amount of bass. My suggestion is to simply upgrade the headphone for that or buy a phone with hip branding such as DrDre phones.
I care more about clarity and I must say the Play have excellent sound quality, to my ears comparable to the Galaxy S though with smoother signature. I have to say Galaxy S with Voodoo kernel have the edge especially the RMAA test show the S with more accurate responses, but I prefer the way the Play is tuned for the ears. Also the stereo speakers are better.
I am actually not fond of supporting Sony, but if their other phones sound this good with similar smooth sound I might have to consider them for the future because good sounding Android phones are not abundant, especially coming from the Galaxy S.
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eksasol said:
Well for me sound quality isn't equivalent to the amount of bass. My suggestion is to simply upgrade the headphone for that or buy a phone with hip branding such as DrDre phones.
I care more about clarity and I must say the Play have excellent sound quality, to my ears comparable to the Galaxy S though with smoother signature. I have to say Galaxy S with Voodoo kernel have the edge especially the RMAA test show the S with more accurate responses, but I prefer the way the Play is tuned for the ears. Also the stereo speakers are better.
I am actually not fond of supporting Sony, but if their other phones sound this good with similar smooth sound I might have to consider them for the future because good sounding Android phones are not abundant, especially coming from the Galaxy S.
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Thanks buddy for your view on this.
I have a pair of AKG 518 and a Sennheiser HD202 and i gotta say that the best sound quality i've listen is from the iPhone/iPod.
I've never tested the Nexus S, but others phones like Nexus (I don't know how different from Nexus S is), Galaxy SII, Galaxy Ace, and for me, as lekhwani said, the Galaxy is probably a better option with the voodoo kernel (and even wihtout it). The Xperia Play doesn´t have a bad sound quality, but does not satisfied a person who is looking for the best sound quality in music.
If you care more about the music than the games and you don´t have enough money, you should probably go for an iPhone 3G.
Talking about headphones, if you really like a heavy bass, the Dr. Dre Beats Audio headphones are good, but if you really want to listen to a better and clear audio you should try something from AKG, Sennheiser or AIAIAI (go to a BestBuy and try yourself).
In my personal opinion Xperia Play sound quality is not good enough, not even with apps like poweramp or walkman player. The only really good thing in the XPlay is the stereo speaker.
Why are you exactly getting an Xperia Play?
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Guys, I will be having a Verizon xperia Play in a few days. I wanted to ask what is your view on sound quality and bass as compared to phones like nexus S?
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Of course Xperia Play has the loudest sound in smartphones world because it has 2 speakers
But when talking about the purity, I think there are phones have a purer sound
i've actually tested the xperia play vs my brothers galaxy nexus and the play actually had better mids and highs with better overall sound.
i'm in music production and used both hd-650's and yamaha hs-50's.
http://www.reverbnation.com/channelkmusic
Guys, I received mine about a few hours back. I am very much impressed with the build quality.
But seems I have some problem. Mine did not come with earphones. I have tried several others earphones and headphones. The sound seems muffled and abnormal and bass is completely missing and lyrics are very low. .
I researched a bit and found that my phone might have one of these issues.
1.Faulty Device, or
2.Proprietary Xperia Play Earphones needed.
I used extreme bass on Power AMP but saw no bass. Also used equalizer app to no avail.
I tried brainwavz, skull candy, creative, philips, lg, Sony Ericsson Xperia pro mk16i earphones. But the sound was not much different in any of these.
Kindly suggest me what do?
You need to get some xperia play earphones or an adapter
It should be fine with regular stereo headphones, but for headset it must be Sony.
legacygt777 said:
i've actually tested the xperia play vs my brothers galaxy nexus and the play actually had better mids and highs with better overall sound.
i'm in music production and used both hd-650's and yamaha hs-50's.
http://www.reverbnation.com/channelkmusic
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The galaxy nexus is known to have a poor sounding dac (by TI I think), so is the SII (Yamaha). The Galaxy S and international SIII are the ones with Wolfson dac. The dac for the Qualcomm S4 phones are supposed to sound decent to.
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I have tried various stereo earphones and headphones, but no difference in sound.
I tried Xperia pro earphones also. No difference.
Can a adapter or original Xperia play earphones make any difference?
Or, do I have a faulty device?
lekhwani said:
I have tried various stereo earphones and headphones, but no difference in sound.
I tried Xperia pro earphones also. No difference.
Can a adapter or original Xperia play earphones make any difference?
Or, do I have a faulty device?
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As I said before, I'm using a pair of AKG 518 and Sennheiser HD202, both sound perfectly normal with poweramp. No adapter or any other thing used. Must be a proble with you phone probably
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It should be fine with regular stereo headphones, but for headset it must be Sony.
The galaxy nexus is known to have a poor sounding dac (by TI I think), so is the SII (Yamaha). The Galaxy S and international SIII are the ones with Wolfson dac. The dac for the Qualcomm S4 phones are supposed to sound decent to.
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Probably is just me but i'd rather how my headphones sound in the Galaxy SII that in my Xperia Play.
I use a $10 pair of headphones I got from gamestop, along with this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer and xloud (not sure if it helps or not for headphones, but it does for speakers)....I hear noticeable bass and I don't use the adapter.
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brsingr said:
I use a $10 pair of headphones I got from gamestop, along with this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer and xloud (not sure if it helps or not for headphones, but it does for speakers)....I hear noticeable bass and I don't use the adapter.
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xLoud is just for the speakers.
As I said I am having verizon cdma version. And I read in a review that verizon phone comes with a 3.5 mm adapter to use with non-sony ericsson phones. Otherwise the sound does not come properly.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony-Ericsson-Xperia-PLAY-for-Verizon-Unboxing_id19132
In bluetooth headset the sound is coming fine.
I am confused.
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Any headphones with a mix don't work for me unless I use adapter and all headphone I've tried without mid work on r800i
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ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
Any headphones with a mix don't work for me unless I use adapter and all headphone I've tried without mid work on r800i
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But mine is not working on non mic headphones as well.
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Hello,
i bought earphones : Westone 4R and i would like to know which application i can use to get the best sound quality on my samsung galaxy note 2.
because, it looks like if the quality of the sound is a bit strange.
also who has a westone 4R being used with samsung galaxy note 2 ?
thanks in advance for your advise
regads
sam
I was using Westone 4 with Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note and now Galaxy Note 2 LTE(N7105)
Definitely, N7105 provide the best audio quality out of the box in these three device.
Now my setup is
Perseus kernel
Audio tab
- disable EQ
- enable oversampling
- bypass analog mixer
Music player
Poweramp
- checked direct volume control.
The only audio tweak I use are these.
I don't like DSP at all, like those Beats, Ezio or AC!D.
They might sound good in movies or games but not music.
Often use phase flip or similar technology to make the sound stage wider but also loose the focus and strength.
Or induce some bizarre reverbs to simulate different room, also decrease the overall clarity quite a lot.
So far I like the quality, no WOW factor but doesn't suck.
I guess the bottleneck is the headphone amp.
Afterall it's a mobile phone, not a dedicated music player
Hi, I have beats headphones and an ipod touch, I also have a Gnex. When I listen to music on my ipod they music sounds great with no kind of audio eq or enhancements but on my gnex the sound is not even close, I have the beats + xlouder patch installed along with trickstermod volume boost and hq sound but I can't get the same sound using either awesome beats dsp or noozoxide. My question is, is there any way to change my settings to get it to sound exactly like the ipod? If it's not possible I understand but I thought I would ask here before I gave up hope and just deal with it. Thanks!
Not with software. GN has a ****ty chip and that's it.
It's really that ****ty? I never noticed a difference...
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abezzilla99 said:
Hi, I have beats headphones and an ipod touch, I also have a Gnex. When I listen to music on my ipod they music sounds great with no kind of audio eq or enhancements but on my gnex the sound is not even close, I have the beats + xlouder patch installed along with trickstermod volume boost and hq sound but I can't get the same sound using either awesome beats dsp or noozoxide. My question is, is there any way to change my settings to get it to sound exactly like the ipod? If it's not possible I understand but I thought I would ask here before I gave up hope and just deal with it. Thanks!
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My friend I have the same problem.
The solution is the mp3 file quality.
I find that downloaded music is at 128 or 192 kbps and you want iTunes or Google play music quality at a higher bit rate like 320kbps. My best sounding files are the .m4a or the iTunes rip format.
Idk if converters work but find a good one because some convert too fast and ruin it so find the highest rated one.
[Edit] when you use iTunes to sync music, it converts it to the format for the iPod to play. Try using Google play music download thing (their iTunes) and sync your music through play so maybe they convert it. Because I drag and drop but noticed sync music sounds more premium on my beat tours.
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Not with software. GN has a ****ty chip and that's it.
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Its not ****ty. Its just "not Wolfson".
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1. Find songs in 320kbps quality.
2. Flash AC!D 7,and gnexus xlouder.
3. Use your goddamn Beats headphones.
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DeHuMaNiZeD said:
1. Find songs in 320kbps quality.
2. Flash AC!D 7,and gnexus xlouder.
3. Use your goddamn Beats headphones.
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can those be used together?
Listening to FLAC tracks would also help.
@OP give this a read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803
wuodland said:
Listening to FLAC tracks would also help.
@OP give this a read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803
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I have been using this for a few months and is by far the best of all the audio mods and enhancements I've tried. The only thing I don't like is that sometimes music sounds distorted or the bass is too low or high so a lot of the time I find myself changing settings after a new track comes on.
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Listening to FLAC tracks would also help.
@OP give this a read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803
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This. Flac files are big, but the sound quality is incredible. Ive got every U2 and Smashing Pumpkins song ever made in flac. Unbelievable
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abezzilla99 said:
Hi, I have beats headphones and an ipod touch, I also have a Gnex. When I listen to music on my ipod they music sounds great with no kind of audio eq or enhancements but on my gnex the sound is not even close, I have the beats + xlouder patch installed along with trickstermod volume boost and hq sound but I can't get the same sound using either awesome beats dsp or noozoxide. My question is, is there any way to change my settings to get it to sound exactly like the ipod? If it's not possible I understand but I thought I would ask here before I gave up hope and just deal with it. Thanks!
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I also have Beats wireless headphone and I noticed that the sound quality is better when there is no equalizer (like Awesome beats and DSP) installed on the phone. I think that Beats headphones have built-in equalizer.
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I also have Beats wireless headphone and I noticed that the sound quality is better when there is no equalizer (like Awesome beats and DSP) installed on the phone. I think that Beats headphones have built-in equalizer.
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I just love that the Galaxy Nexus' audio output is way better than my ****ty iPod Touch 4th gen...
The iPod puts out very flat tones while the Galaxy Nexus puts out punchy tones making listening to music a joy instead of listening to the capital B BORING music output of an iPod.
Friends of mine constantly get amazed by the sound quality of the Gnex. It just has more bass and more intensity to the music.
I'd the Nexus supported USB DACs the ****ty audio chip would be a non-issue. But as everyone else said, lossless audio helps a lot. But if you need to go lossy for space, 320kbps constant or 160 to 190ish variable bitrates are what you want.
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You at least need decent Music track Quality at least 192Kbps. Im always on 320Kpbs
I use PowerAmp and Sony High Bass Headphones and the quality is brilliant. I mean Beats (In my opinion) arent even that good. your absically paying for the name "Dr Dre".
But what ever floats your boat!?
No point in boosting audio volume if you have crappy audio quality?
good lucks
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I think that Beats headphones have built-in equalizer.
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That's an euphemism for bad quality when it comes to headphones .
The key is using flac audio! Gotta use HQ stuff. I notice instantly how it sounds like garbage when I come across one of my old tracks that are only 192 or even lower. I use sennheiser HD650`s with an amp. I notice when quality drops. But if you keep it to HQ I truly feel the gnexus sounds great. Much better than my nexus 7.
Try the power amp music player in the play store(15 day trial) you can increase the base and treble. That alone made me buy it.
As most said, the file quality needs to be high. For MP3 it should be 320 KBS CBR or VBR at "0" setting which usually equates to files in the 200-300 KBS range. Personally, I think VBR0 format is better than 320 CBR. Most people cannot tell difference between FLAC and 320 CBR unless they have very acute hearing and very high-end headphones. Speaking of headphones, get a set with built-in amplifier if you truly want to hear music the way it should. Sadly most of those headphones are in the $200-$600 price range.
If you're using the Gal Nex with high bitrate files and high end headphones you'll notice it's hardware limitations but for most people the Gal Nex really isn't that bad.
beats headphones are such crap lol
Hint to OP: Just because it says "Beats by Dre" does not mean that they are any good.
Sure, they have a heavy bass, but at the price of almost drowning out hi and midrange sounds.
Try other headphones that are actually worth the money of the Beats, like stuff from AKG, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic or Shure.
Beats are merely a fashion-statement, and I have to admit that they look cool, but no self-respecting Producer or DJ would use them to listen to music on a daily basis.