I own LG V30+, LG G8X, LG Velvet & LG V60. V60 -> Best all-rounder flagship phone LG ever made. Period. Daily driver phone with an awesome ES9219 DAC. Phenomenal battery life. Velvet -> The LG phone with best external design & aesthetics. This phone is a looker and fits like a glove in my...

Most probably not. I have never heard of such. If you fancy ROG5, gun for it. However the phone is not my cup of tea. Most importantly when it come to audio through audio jack, does not improve upon LG G8X or a LG V30+.

The question is do you need 5G? For me I am good to go without 5G for next 5 years. The only practical advantage I can think of is lower latency while playing online games. I don't do that. For native DSD playback I have some stellar phones like LG V30+ & Vivo NEX. As a fallback I have a pair of...

Asus ROG 5 as you confirmed does NOT support native DSD playback. The drop in volume levels during DSD playback is manly due to real time DSD to PCM conversion at software level and feeding PCM to the audio processor while loosing its inherent audio quality. Where as for native DSD playback the...

Just an update ... I was hopeful like you Vivo/ iQOO to enable native DSD playback on their iQOO 7 Legend (just iQOO 7 in China). The phone comes with a potent inbuilt Cirrus Logic CS43131 audio processor that has the hardware support of DSD decoding. Unfortunately the manufacturer did not...

I hate dongles. May they burn in hell. I pray almighty to show us light and give back audio jack in smartphones.

No. Both uses same DAC.

First, LG G6, V30, G7, V35, V40, G8, V50, V50S, G8X all used the same audio processor. ESS designed Sabre ES9218P better known as LG's QuadDAC. This audio processor was designed for LG in such a way so as to custom tune the final sound signature and tonality at hardware level. Secondly, LG V40...

Both are excellent devices from audio perspective. I love both.

After going through the shared link, I am dead certain Asus ROG 5 does not support native DSD playback over DoP. What it does actually is software decoding from DSD to PCM, hence loosing the inherent advantages of DSD audio. iQOO 7 better known as iQOO 7 Legend in India comes with a potent...

If you listen to DSD audio, value native DSD playback stay put to Android 9. Else if you are stuck to PCM audio file formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, APE, OGG.... upgrade to Android 10 eyes closed. With Andriod 10 update you will lose native DSD playback on your LG G8X, due to stupid cost cutting...

I never questioned Asus ROG Phone 5's performance or hardware capabilities, I know it is a good smartphone. But I doubt its analogue audio capabilities through headphone jack will be any superior to the last generations of QuadDAC laden LG flagships. And I am almost certain the Asus is unable...

If Asus ROG Phone 5 supports native DSD playback, I am all in for this phone. An owner here had verified it can playback DSD files (dsf, dff files), but nobody is able to confirm if it does so natively (hardware decoding by ES9280AC). If the phone does software decoding of DSD files (by music...

Let me clear your doubts and throw away some misconceptions: The ESS & Cirrus logic audio chips used in smartphones are just discrete stereo DACs with an integrated headphone amplifier stage. It has to handle just two audio channels for audio playback only and does so superbly. They are just...

As I told you before ... the same happened. Asus are going to keep ESS for their ROG series only. The WCD9385 is no slouch, but it remains to be seen how Asus have implemented it at hardware level. If implemented in power saving mode, saves battery and delivers anemic audio. If implemented in...