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Better audio codec YAMAHA or WOLFSON

post #1 of 8
4/20/11 at 6:54pm
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i currently have sgs and it uses WOLFSON DAC i am eagerly looking forward to getting sgs 2 and it uses YAMAHA's codec. i know next to nothing about the science behind it .i just want to know is YAMAHA as good as the WOLFSON? better ? worse? 

WOLFSONhttp://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/audio_hubs/WM8994/ and YAMAHA http://download.yamaha.com/file/46319

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post #2 of 8
4/26/11 at 6:38am

Woldfson is good, Yamaha is more common in mixing, and mastering studio's. 

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post #3 of 8
5/10/11 at 1:36pm

bump

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post #4 of 8
5/10/11 at 2:00pm

wat wood u like to no?

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post #5 of 8
5/10/11 at 3:28pm

Which audio chip is better, the Woldfson or the Yamaha, so i could know if to upgrade to Samsung Galaxy s2. I found this thread on the subject, but with no definitive answer...

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post #6 of 8
6/6/11 at 10:25am

Bump

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post #7 of 8
6/9/11 at 5:28pm

The Yamaha's data sheet doesn't go into the audio performance specs, though it appears that they chose it because it uses less power than the wolfson. Assuming that the specs are comparable to the wolfson's 100db SNR spec, the quality should be pretty good. Then again, you're talking about a cell-phone, you're not going to notice the difference anyway. Maybe headphones will play louder on one than the other. The phone's speaker itself will still sound like crap, no DAC's gonna change that.

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post #8 of 8
6/10/11 at 11:37am

The Yamaha spec is not a datasheet. It is a product brief. It's created for a quick product pitch. The marketing folks do not think that the DAC performance is a differentiating feature therefore it's left out.

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