Hi all, I just bought the Huawei mate 10 (after my v10 boot-looped in 6 months). The huawei is a great phone, display, camera , battery and general performance is top notch. It does have a 3.5mm headphone jack and surprisingly the SQ quality is decent(my reference is meizu mx4 pro , v10 and...

I have Meridian explorer 1 (got it for free along side a and i think SQ is not as good as Mx4 pro but better than V10. @Art is the xplay 6 still worth a buy i can get the black one for £400. Will it be updated to Oreo?

Hi guys, My v10 has failed. I am looking for a new device. I am thinking of getting a vivo xplay 6 but i am not sure if the new one will be out soon? Don't want the Meizu as it lacks the right LTE bands. LG v30 would be the second option but i would like the vivo if the Xplay 7 or whatever...

Hi ll, Honor 9 seems to claim to have hifi capabilities with AKM chip and some equaliser tuning which could be gimmicky.

I bought an mx4 pro last year for £120 GB so 290$ is too much for such an old phone. Sound wise its great but otherwise no so much. The home button malfunctioned, no proper software support and the battery life is terrible. I have an LG v10 now and it is superior to the mx4 pro in every way...

Does anyone have any experience with a Xiaomi mi note 2. I have an LG V10 bu the battery life is appalling.

Hi guys, I upgraded from a meizu mx4 pro to a LG V10. Its still a great phone and a good upgrade for me coming from an MX4 pro. As far as audio is concerned, i would not say its any better but i am no audiophile. -Tested using tidal HIFI ( headphones used fidelio X1, KZ ATE, ROCK zircon)

if you have access to a heat gun to rework chips. here is a video guide i found, seems pretty straightforward. You will need thermal paste and pads.

it was reported to be a mixed bag

The boot loop cause in case of the LG v10 is the hardware. Basically the heat sink pads for the processor are useless. ~some thermal paste and new pads after you reflow the chip should be good enough to solve the issue.    The nexus 6p seems like a different issue, Its interesting to see this...

Hi i just placed an order for an LG v10 via ebay UK for £210 (brand new) , the seller is from china. V10 will receive nougat and is still a beast of a phone. I know some boot loop issues reported for it. The seller has offered 1 year warranty.    For around £200 i think its the best option for...

may i ask why you need to root? is there any particular feature you need to unlock?

I have bit the bullet and bought my self a V10 h961n  new from ebay. Got it for around £200 on ebay. It is due to receive nougat and it seems like an upgrade in every way to my Meizu MX4 pro. Lets see how it goes.

thanks mate, How do you find the phone overall? Does it receive OTA updates?

Jeff, Singapore seems to be the same as Australia the h870DS, should have quad DAC(see propaganda on their site for proof below)   http://www.lg.com/sg/mobile-phones/lg-G6

The ESS DAC should cost Lg a few pennies and since they already paid for implementation there should not be any additional cost. How would removing the chip keep the cost of the phone down? This seems to be like a patent issue as its not sold in US and EU (non EU countries seem to be getting the...

Yes but 870Ds in Australia has quad DAC. This is incredibly confusing.

what is the version number for Ukraine?. I know that Australia and Singapore also will get QDAC version

thanks zildon, Did you use cell-plaza? i am looking at that one. All i care about is sound quality and should be a good upgrade from my mx4 pro in terms of everything else. 

i asked for the same earlier 

Hi all,   is it still worth buying the V10, i can find brand new h961 here in uk for £210 on ebay. Seems like a good deal.

In the UK the only options seems to be   HTC 10 (too small) ZTE axon 7 (ugly design also ZTE firmware support is pretty bad)   does anyone know of any other options?

Hi guys,   Please ignore me if this has been done before, but i was thinking if we could have a list of current available phones with good audio performance approved by the users in the forum as a floating list?   It does become a task for a new user to go through a few 100 pages looking for...

AKM 4375 is not just a DACbut an integrated audio chip solution. Please look at the data sheet it has a headphone amplifier built in. The specs seems good but how that translates to real life performance will depend on implementation etc.. Hopefully somebody can comment on various AKM chip...

I was in Frankfurt and found a brand new HTC 10 reduced to 397 EUR in a high street store, unfortunately the screen size is too small for me as i i prefer a larger size (helps me read emails due to my poor vision). seems like a good deal as it is still going for over 500 EUR in most stores.