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Hey guys, these are some early unboxing videos of the HTC one X and as you will see, all the videos clearly show that the phone comes with a normal headset and not the Beats headset as claimed .
sucks..gotta buy it seperatly
It does suck a little bit, but for the price (about £30) you can buy far superior earphones.
So yeah, a pain, but not the end of the world
Guys.. be happy about it, really.
I never wanted to have a Beats Headset with it.
A friend of mine has the Sensation XE/XL which comes with Beats Audio (and Beats Headset), he said the phone is beast, but the Beats headset is total crap.
The name sounds cool 'Uhhh original headset of Beats', but the quality of the headset is worse than HTC's standard headset.
He said it sounds horrible and any other headset would be better.
I, for myself, have bought good Sennheiser Headphones for 120€ to use with the Htc One X.
The Beats Audio is just an equalizer setting, which 'should' make the music sound better, also by adding more Bass to it.
But anyway... the Beats headset which normally comes with HTC phones sounds bad and Beats headset itself breaks very, very fast.
I'd be happy that I don't get such crappy headphones with it.
HTC knows that it was a mistake to give such heaphones with their high quality phones, that's why they decided in most cases (and even staff of HTC said so), to not include a beats headset as that would lower the quality.
Beats Audio is overrated. The equalizer setting is nice, the beats headset isn't.
Just get some Sennheiser's and you'll be more happy than you would have been with Beats, over-rated stuff.
I too don't care much even though if it were there I would've been happier, but those headsets really really sucks. Most people like those headsets that goes in the ear not those ones
McSic said:
Guys.. be happy about it, really.
I never wanted to have a Beats Headset with it.
A friend of mine has the Sensation XE/XL which comes with Beats Audio (and Beats Headset), he said the phone is beast, but the Beats headset is total crap.
The name sounds cool 'Uhhh original headset of Beats', but the quality of the headset is worse than HTC's standard headset.
He said it sounds horrible and any other headset would be better.
I, for myself, have bought good Sennheiser Headphones for 120€ to use with the Htc One X.
The Beats Audio is just an equalizer setting, which 'should' make the music sound better, also by adding more Bass to it.
But anyway... the Beats headset which normally comes with HTC phones sounds bad and Beats headset itself breaks very, very fast.
I'd be happy that I don't get such crappy headphones with it.
HTC knows that it was a mistake to give such heaphones with their high quality phones, that's why they decided in most cases (and even staff of HTC said so), to not include a beats headset as that would lower the quality.
Beats Audio is overrated. The equalizer setting is nice, the beats headset isn't.
Just get some Sennheiser's and you'll be more happy than you would have been with Beats, over-rated stuff.
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Overrated.....but comes for free so why not take it? If anything, resell it for profit.
Beats aren't terrible, it depends what kind of music you enjoy listening to. Definitely better for more modern stuff like dubstep etc...hip hop/R&B
As for Beats Audio, it's an equalizer right now but they're going to integrate it a lot deeper
any good in-ear earphones that can control music and pick up calls to recommend? previously i was hoping they will give the earphones similar to those in sensation xl, that are in-ear and can control music and pick up calls.. guess that is happening this time round.
HTC One X Package for Hong Kong
Dear All,
This is one of the two packages offered in Hong Kong.
http://www.smartone.com/jsp/phone/english/detail_v12.jsp?id=1934
fcng said:
Dear All,
This is one of the two packages offered in Hong Kong.
http://www.smartone.com/jsp/phone/english/detail_v12.jsp?id=1934
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They offer it in europe too......it's the deluxe edition that comes with Beats Solo's for around $60 more. Worth the extra money IMO as Beats Solo's sell for $150
Ok so today i put my One X, Sensation XL, iPod and Sensation classic to music test
HTC didn't not really lie when they said now Beats is included in software and let me explain why
If you use the iPod earphones, standard old HTC earphones and urBeats with the Sensation XL, you find the best audio is coming from urBeats, second place goes to the iPod earphones and finally ofcourse the old messy HTC earphones
but then i expected the included One X to do badly on the One X, turns out urBeats is doing very badly even if you choose urBeats profile, the included One X headset actually comes best a bit better or equal to the iPod earphones, which are not bad to begin with, certainly miles ahead of the old HTC stuff, the One X earphones does best with urBeat profile very similar to the quality of urBeats on XL, which are for some reason rendered useless on the X
of course this is all subjective and depends on my audio preference
but my point is, it seems the Sensation XL was simply detecting the urBeats set and enabling the beats improved profile, has nothing to do with the quality of urBeats itself
on the One X those profiles are open for you to choose from and the include inbox earsets is so incredibly close to the iPod ones, not a bad deal if you ask me!
The included beats profiles sound really good and we have tons of profiles to choose based on our test and they work globally too, much better beats/audio than the sensation XL!
I find the audio quality far better on the one X stock headphones on my one X compared to the endymion Rom (sensation xl) for my desire S using the same phones.
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to be honest, the earphones are good and i wouldt have mind them if they were in-ear and had music control instead of pause play function only..
been using in-ears for far to long to go back to non in-ear earphones..
I have been using klipsch s4i and Bose Mie2i with my phone and the output was great compared to the output with my iPod touch. Previously with my DesireHD there is no comparison of the sound quality. Thanks to the beats audio.
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Indeed, the new earphones from the One X are not bad and way better than the standard HTC earphones from earlier phones. But I still have the Beats in-ear headset from my Sensation XE and that sounds way better than the ones out of the box.
Hi, did anyone tried to use some high-end in-ear earphones? Like Sennheiser.
I have and the sound is brilliant, bassy and crisp
tested my klipsch s4i vs the included urBeats by Monster earphones. (beats headset is included @ vodafone one series devices)
the beats do have a better bass but the s4i sounds more natural, the midrange is a lot clearer.
sadly the cable remote of the s4i won't work completly, pause and play is possible, but no track jumping.
anyways, i will he selling my beats headset, the s4i are the better earphones for me, much lighter, much more confortable and i think the better sound
(so if you want just testet urbeats... pm me, they are like new)
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tested my klipsch s4i vs the included urBeats by Monster earphones. (beats headset is included @ vodafone one series devices)
the beats do have a better bass but the s4i sounds more natural, the midrange is a lot clearer.
sadly the cable remote of the s4i won't work completly, pause and play is possible, but no track jumping.
anyways, i will he selling my beats headset, the s4i are the better earphones for me, much lighter, much more confortable and i think the better sound
(so if you want just testet urbeats... pm me, they are like new)
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Install klipsch control app for play store, which will enable all the missing features of the button. But the volume buttons still won't work.
Does the urbeats have the music control and volume control features?
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hey thanks, i will try this after work today.
the beats headset dont have a volume control either.
middle bottom: play, pause, pickup call, end call
and 2 bottoms for next track and previous track
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hamdir said:
The included beats profiles sound really good and we have tons of profiles to choose based on our test and they work globally too, much better beats/audio than the sensation XL!
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As far as I can see there is just one Beats profile and option to choose headset. All other profiles are regular profiles.
At first, changing these profiles didn't do anything to me. Then I found out that PowerAMP is going around all those profiles, it's an option: Audio Engine > Advanced Tweaks > Direct Volume Control. It's enabled by default and for me it is better that the stock/beats profiles. I can also further tweak equalizer to my liking/headphones I'm using, to get more/less bass.
Nothing wrong with beats. Enabling it sounds like enabling that PowerAMP option + adding some bass boost.
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As far as I can see there is just one Beats profile and option to choose headset. All other profiles are regular profiles.
At first, changing these profiles didn't do anything to me. Then I found out that PowerAMP is going around all those profiles, it's an option: Audio Engine > Advanced Tweaks > Direct Volume Control. It's enabled by default and for me it is better that the stock/beats profiles. I can also further tweak equalizer to my liking/headphones I'm using, to get more/less bass.
Nothing wrong with beats. Enabling it sounds like enabling that PowerAMP option + adding some bass boost.
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the specific beats type can be choosen from the drop down menu of the music group
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the specific beats type can be choosen from the drop down menu of the music group
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Yes, that's the "choose headset" option I mentioned too.
I wonder, why is audio quality so bad when beats if off or when DVC is off in PowerAMP? The difference is so easy to notice.
I'm using sennheiser headphones with poweramp. Sounds great but can't see the Beats button in power amp... Just SRS. In any case, it still sounds great with SRS but anyone else have this issue with poweramp build 488?
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I'm using sennheiser headphones with poweramp. Sounds great but can't see the Beats button in power amp... Just SRS. In any case, it still sounds great with SRS but anyone else have this issue with poweramp build 488?
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I don't think there is Beats button in PowerAMP? I think you need to go into Settings > Sound and enable Beats there, then disable DVC in PowerAMP. As long as DVC is enabled, PowerAMP has direct control over audio hardware.
Now I know many people dislike beats headphones and think there not good for audio quality (which I agree on for all the beats headphones EXCEPT the pros) but yer Ive had solos studios and now pros and I gotta say man the sound from the pros with this phone is amazing, blows my sensation out the water. Think it's kool how the beats enhancer has presets for the different beats headphones too!!
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Now I know many people dislike beats headphones and think there not good for audio quality (which I agree on for all the beats headphones EXCEPT the pros) but yer Ive had solos studios and now pros and I gotta say man the sound from the pros with this phone is amazing, blows my sensation out the water. Think it's kool how the beats enhancer has presets for the different beats headphones too!!
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Do you mean these ones?
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/headphones/monster-beats-by-dr-dre-pro-review-50001277/
My biggest complain about beats in general is that its very overpriced, fooling people into thinking they are getting more than they are. But I can see it's attractive offer to many people especially when they have beats profiles in the phones, instead of profiles for Shures, Sennheisers, Sony and all other popular ones. And I can see the beats profile does a good job when enabled, no argue here, but I was always getting the same from PowerAMP and it's DVC.
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Do you mean these ones?
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/headphones/monster-beats-by-dr-dre-pro-review-50001277/
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Yer I got those but with the black band. Amazon where selling them for 230 which I thought it was a good idea. I mostly listen to tupac/biggie/jay z you know mainly older generation artist and the headphones suit them really well the bass Is awesome. Plus this phone is loud as f**k...first time I can't use those headphones on full volume!
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I'm no audio geek, but I was impressed with the sound quality of the One X and standard HTC headphones. Better than listening to my iPod
what chip is in this phone? i've heard it sounds better than the Yamaha in the GS II. is it Wolfson or anything people say is good like that? i get mine in 10 hours, but i don't want to take it apart. i will be turning off Beats Audio and listening to lossless files with normal sound through expensive headphones, so i'm wondering if i will be happy. if i'm not, i will add another name to my bad list with the Yamaha chip. thanks!
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what chip is in this phone? i've heard it sounds better than the Yamaha in the GS II. is it Wolfson or anything people say is good like that? i get mine in 10 hours, but i don't want to take it apart. i will be turning off Beats Audio and listening to lossless files with normal sound through expensive headphones, so i'm wondering if i will be happy. if i'm not, i will add another name to my bad list with the Yamaha chip. thanks!
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One google it to find out what chipset your phone has. Second using beats audio is the whole point of listening to music. And without that it still gives you good sound. Do your research first before getting a phone
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It uses the on board audio on the tegra as I've seen on the files for example is alsa files been given a tegra name but could be something else but just assume it's a nvidia chipset.
Sound is ok not bad maybe slightly better than the Yamaha but not as good as the Wolfson.
Also this phone had aptX for high quality streaming via Bluetooth. I've got my Bluetooth receiver yesterday which also has aptX and will be testing it over the next few days with my iems which are pricey themselves.
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One google it to find out what chipset your phone has. Second using beats audio is the whole point of listening to music. And without that it still gives you good sound. Do your research first before getting a phone
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Beats Audio is not a panacea for sound quality. All it does is essentially bass the boost and volume a bit. As a result, mids and highs suffer from the 'enhancement.' Just because its from the 'Beats' brand doesn't mean it has to boost sound quality. Beats headphones in general aren't exactly spectacular, and are insanely overpriced for what they offer as it is.
Its more of a marketing gimmick which equates to little more than a preset equalizer.
Many audiophiles prefer to disable the 'sound enhancements' these vendors provide, so that they can listen to their music as it should sound originally, or with their own equalizer tweaks.
So no, 'listening to beats audio' isn't the whole point of listening to music.
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Beats Audio is not a panacea for sound quality. All it does is essentially bass the boost and volume a bit. As a result, mids and highs suffer from the 'enhancement.' Just because its from the 'Beats' brand doesn't mean it has to boost sound quality. Beats headphones in general aren't exactly spectacular, and are insanely overpriced for what they offer as it is.
Its more of a marketing gimmick which equates to little more than a preset equalizer.
Many audiophiles prefer to disable the 'sound enhancements' these vendors provide, so that they can listen to their music as it should sound originally, or with their own equalizer tweaks.
So no, 'listening to beats audio' isn't the whole point of listening to music.
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Yes you are right in what you say. It is just another equalizer. But still a good one to have and another reason in why this is a good phone to have. So for me at least Beats does make the phone sound better. Hence why i advised to use it. But my apologies sometimes i fall for the marketing gimmick instead of using common sense
I'm wondering how many people have been persuaded to buy HTC One phones because of this marketing gimmick. I say this because in the same token I was almost turned off from buying my One V just because of the Beats branding.
Many consumers don't know that Beats is just a simple EQ option that jacks the bass way up. It makes me laugh when HTC toutes this as ".. Listening to music as the artists intended ". What's even worse though is that with a statement like that still many HTC One phones suffer from an unacceptable level of audible digital noise when listening to music.
Even when disregarding the EQ software and questionable audio isolation of the phone when you concentrate on Beats branded headphones a person might think that would be where a reasonable quality of sound might be expected.. Still this isn't so with the Beats branding being universally lauded by the audiophile and music connoisseur as being notoriously bad for true reproduction of sound. Take a look at the frequency graph for any Beats headphone and it's hard to disagree.
I just wish HTC would drop the Beats branding and stop deceiving customers or atleast try and make a genuine attempt at making a decent headphone.
What are your thoughts as an educated developer community on Beats branding?
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it's just way better than xloud
personal opinion based on usage
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first, the earphones that come with One V are not Beats and are pretty good.
second, i agree that beats is jus an eq setting but if you really think that it just cranks up the base real high and nothing else then you clearly haven't had enough time to explore the options
and three if you really hate the phone that much then why did you buy it mate?
I'll give you the answer to that, not because of the beats branding but because of HTC's build quality and for the fact that even with so many people giving you negative comments about it, the phone in itself is actually good.
xLoud sucks
xLoud is simply 'nothing' on my Xperia Mini
I think beats audio gives life to my music......quietly better.....
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Got my phone because it's great.
Nothing to do with audio. Beats, xloud! Makes no difference to me. I got my phone to make calls and play games and web.
It's awesome. Even my mate who got a sensation xl wants a one v after.trying mine
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i fell beats audio is good ... htc phones are not bad . i m using one v is great !!
I'm not saying HTC makes bad handsets, although the audio quality does have a lot to be desired. To say that the audio on my phone is as the artists intend it to be is simply laughable.
And sure, the Beats EQ also pumps up mids and highs, but still it's just distorting the original waveform of your music even more but completely without disclosing which frequency bands it's jacking up or down.
I just don't like Beats branding being part of my phone... it makes it... dirty.
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I have tried Beats with about 4 different headsets so far and lemme tell you,other than increasing the volume and maybe jacking up the bass a teensy bit, beats doesn't do squat.
Complete fail on HTC's part of promising authentic audio.
Don't get me wrong ,I love this phone but Beats is just simply misleading.
Although it's true that the Beats brand is completely overhyped and consists of little more than an EQ bass boost (and perhaps a fashion statement), I feel like there is a certain guarantee of audio quality with it present. Many phones (perhaps even most) without any audio branding whatsoever have absolutely horrific audio processors and suffer from terrible quality sound.
That's not to say that all Beats devices have fantastic audio, but I've never read a convincing review completely slating the sound quality on a branded device like this. Certainly for the moment I've been quite happy with the One V's audio performance - it can drive my 88 ohm DT770s fairly well, which is more than I can say for a lot of consumer devices out there.
I guess it's a little sad that manufacturers have to rely on a label like this though, ultimately it's probably because most consumers care more about how fashionable a phone is.
Since HTC has now bought Beats
We can now expect "authentic sound", on every piece it releases over the next few years....
Lucky us.
I thought that the V didn't have beats just S and all X brands
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Nah the whole One series is Beats branded.
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I have tried Beats with about 4 different headsets so far and lemme tell you,other than increasing the volume and maybe jacking up the bass a teensy bit, beats doesn't do squat.
Complete fail on HTC's part of promising authentic audio.
Don't get me wrong ,I love this phone but Beats is just simply misleading.
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Sound quality is far more superior at least compared to my other phones in the past, but I agree, that beats doesn't provide that much plus for it.
I agree with you on that. Soumd quality on my one v is even better than my ipod 4g. Just moved all my music to my phone and now just gonna use my ipod for playing FPS's. I
Yeah on mine all beats does is increase the low-mid sound channel and increase treble to make sound louder but in some music especially rock, it ends up sounding really scratchy and disgusting. I just use dsp manager
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Someone i know wants to swap their htc one for my SGS4 ,
they dont listen to music a lot and i do EVERY day so my question is is the beats audio as good as everyone raves on about?
and do you reckon thats a fair swap
I suggest watching this first, but what makes the HTC One better isn't beats but the actual speakers on the phone.
youtube.com/watch?v=Cdbn_pmxFic
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It's true. I don't listen to music a ton either anymore, but when I do, I prefer the sound of it over anything else
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Yeah I've looked on YouTube but it's not really a good comparison. Only thing that puts me off is the camera
I don't have a comparison of the S4 to the one, but I did just upgrade from S3 to the One about a week ago and I do think the sound from the One's speakers is a whole lot better than any other phone I've owned or heard. I don't like beats audio though. I actually turned it off because it seemed to bring too much bass through and distorts the sound quite a bit. With beats turned off the phone sounds very very good, imo, and sounds amazing for a phone. Another note is I haven't listened to any music with headphones, only with the phone's speakers, so I don't know how beats would sound using headphones.
Hope that helps.
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I listen to the HTC One a lot with headphones and I keep the beats audio off. I have noticed with the beats audio ON there is a hiss in the background that takes away from the music a bit. For just the speakers, the beats audio on or off both sound really good. Hope this helped!
@Khixar27 It is done
I traded my S4 for an HTC One about 3 months ago. No regrets. Haven't looked back once.
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I usually leave it on when I'm listening to music or audio of any kind through the speakers. Haven't done much headphone testing but I don't remember being excited about BeatsAudio through headphones.
It's nothing more than an overhyped equalizer setting. This guy explains it pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdbn_pmxFic
The thing is, when you turn it off, it doesn't actually turn off. It adjusts the equalizer in the opposite direction instead, so you get artificially degraded sound. A pretty sneaky way to make you think Beats makes your music sound better.
This is what I have told people for years about beats. There's nothing special about it that its just an eq setting which you can recreate with any DSP type app we have seen out for a while and quite honestly make it sound better. Beats is for (I hate to say it) for lazy people that doesn't want to take the time to setup an eq setting.
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Check out this review , htc one is the best audio device on the market.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one-review-912p7.php
"This is the second smartphone in a row where HTC makes the Beats audio logo stand for something other than a simple equalizer.."
And i've tested several phones personally such as xperia z , s4 , apple 5s , htc one in my car. (bang & olufsen sound system) - incredible quality.
While on my friend's stock honda sounds horrible , so it depends on a quality of you stereo or headphones.
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Check out this review , htc one is the best audio device on the market.
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one-review-912p7.php
"This is the second smartphone in a row where HTC makes the Beats audio logo stand for something other than a simple equalizer.."
And i've tested several phones personally such as xperia z , s4 , apple 5s , htc one in my car. (bang & olufsen sound system) - incredible quality.
While on my friend's stock honda sounds horrible , so it depends on a quality of you stereo or headphones.
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This is true but using other DSP apps while running aosp ROMs on this phone have gotten better sounds than what beats could produce. Beats is just a general eq setting no more no less. Most likely they did a study on the eq settings and this setting that's in the phone now is what the general population agreed on. Me myself can enjoy beats setting but there are times I like to fine tune it more.
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I use the power amp on my HTC and used it on my galaxy s, 10 band equalizer appears to sound good.
It definitely sounds better on the One with Beats enabled, but the external speaker volume takes a pretty big hit with Beats on. I usually end up leaving it on for music, but turn it off whenever I'm watching a video. I think just as good or better sound with better volume can be achieved with DSP or Power Amp.
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BEATS
They are over rated. With the auto adjustment part it makes the music sound weird like its fading in and out. thats the most annoying part. so i leave beats off.
As said before it's nothing but an equalizer. It does sound great under most conditions but it's nothing that should make or break your decision on getting the phone as just about any audio app(and other custom ROMs) can do the same.
I probably wouldn't consider myself a picky audiophile by any means but I think the stereo speakers on the One are most of the difference I hear. My audio app is Poweramp which has a really nice EQ built in. I prefer to tweak that over enabling Beats. Beats sounds over processed to me. Even running AOKP, the first time I had a notification while I held the phone had me startled with the clarity and volume of the sound... and that was without Beats obviously.
Beats just sounds like a bass boost to me. Which I'm okay with or without.
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