To my IEM and my preference, I like Pro5's treble than in HTC10's. That is why I feel it more balanced to enjoy every genre while keeping the warmth presence.
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To my IEM and my preference, I like Pro5's treble than in HTC10's. That is why I feel it more balanced to enjoy every genre while keeping the warmth presence.
According to this article,
https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/news/top-4-phones-for-music-lovers-audiophiles-0175956/
the ZTE Axon does not use it's DAC/amp unless you are using the built in music player, it will not use it when using streaming service such as Spotify. Too bad, I would like to find a phone that leaned more towards the bright end rather than warm, but I use Spotify premium a lot, so whatever I get must support that.
I may be exaggerating my preference, but it is important to me to have vocals out in front, with much detail,especially in treble. It seems many of the phones, at least the phones available in USA, lean towards the "warm" side, which scares me off.
Many thanks for your efforts putting this together, much appreciated!
https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/news/top-4-phones-for-music-lovers-audiophiles-0175956/
the ZTE Axon does not use it's DAC/amp unless you are using the built in music player, it will not use it when using streaming service such as Spotify. Too bad, I would like to find a phone that leaned more towards the bright end rather than warm, but I use Spotify premium a lot, so whatever I get must support that.
I may be exaggerating my preference, but it is important to me to have vocals out in front, with much detail,especially in treble. It seems many of the phones, at least the phones available in USA, lean towards the "warm" side, which scares me off.
Many thanks for your efforts putting this together, much appreciated!
May be LG G6 could be the one for you. But you need to import quad dac version or you could wait LG G6+ series.
Hey thanks, I'll look into the G6+.
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It might be worth listening to Lenovo Vibe X3 at least once before making decisions.
It has a bug where you need to use quick shortcutmaker to get Headset setting shortcut and select HD650 as Headset to get better output.
But I believe it is worth a try considering your requirements about vocals and treble.
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Hello, have anyone try Vivo V5s with AK4736 (the same on vivo x9 and ZTE nubia Z11)? If yes, please share your real experience (and kind of IEM/,headphone used:?). Thank you 
Hello, have anyone try Vivo V5s with AK4736 (the same on vivo x9 and ZTE nubia Z11)? If yes, please share your real experience (and kind of IEM/,headphone used:?). Thank you
I plan to test at local vivo shop tomorrow and will come up with short description. Hope you can wait
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Officialy Lg G6+ list quad dac in specs! Woot! Now lets wait a couple of months for price to go down.
http://www.lg.com/hk_en/mobile-phone/lg-H870DSU-Gold-128GB
What's weird is the g6+ has the same model number as the nonplus variant, for HK anyway, H870DS
http://www.lg.com/hk_en/mobile-phone/lg-H870DSU-Gold-128GB
What's weird is the g6+ has the same model number as the nonplus variant, for HK anyway, H870DS
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Vibe X3 is another that is not available in US market.
I am not sure if this would be helpful.Hello, have anyone try Vivo V5s with AK4736 (the same on vivo x9 and ZTE nubia Z11)? If yes, please share your real experience (and kind of IEM/,headphone used:?). Thank you
I haven't tried vivo v5s, but have tried vivo V3 which comes with my AK4735. It does have a decent audio quality. It's definitely better than regular Snapdragon or Mediatek ones. Sound is a little on the bright side. It has adequate power for normal use and with is. But with my Fostex t50rp mk3 I had to use an external amp to drive them properly.
If you are not using planars or high impedence headphones it should be fine.
All these are from vivo V3 which has AK4735. So I am guessing with AK4736 sound could have improved. It's a wild guess though
With vivo v series you can enable DAC for predefined apps like in built vivo player, YouTube and a few others. But with vivo x series, you can choose DAC to be enabled for Spotify and other streaming app services as well.
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Don't forget the LG V20. Has a great quad DAC and I can attest to the fact that the amp is quite strong putting out just over 2V and driving my headphones very well. It also have removable battery and SD slot.
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Edit, was wrong. Though my question is what do the headphone profiles actually do other than give more output power?
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Hello, have anyone try Vivo V5s with AK4736 (the same on vivo x9 and ZTE nubia Z11)? If yes, please share your real experience (and kind of IEM/,headphone used:?). Thank you
I test it with ve monk plus red exclusive.
The result is v5s is so powerless. Can't even feel any emotion of the songs. There is no impact and drum slam. What I hear is just some treble, least bass, emotionless thin vocal in a small soundstage. Not even close to xplay6 or x9.
So yeah, if it is same price with other two -x9 and z11, delete v5s from your candidate.
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Hi ll, Honor 9 seems to claim to have hifi capabilities with AKM chip and some equaliser tuning which could be gimmicky.
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