Gojira
100+ Head-Fier
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For those of you like me who cannot afford a Korean LG G6 or Onkyo Granbeat I just noticed that the Ramos MOS1 Max seems to be out of stock and discontinued by Ramos before any headfier could get hold of one. What a shame. That could have been an interesting phone/phablet and was selling for $120 before stock ran out. I think I would have sprang for one in a month or two and posted a review of it. The closest thing to it would be either the PPTV King 7 which apparently has some reliability problems or the well known LeTV Le Max. I guess I'll just save up for a Le Max before all of those are gone too. I am totally sold on the 6"+ screen size now. 5.5" seems too small to me. It was only 1080p but who knows how good the sound might have been with those specs and Ramos is I think a more well known brand than PPTV.
I recently bought an Intel SoC phablet based on some limited listening tests, but now that I actually own it I kind of hate it. The tonal balance seems too warm and bassy for me just as with most of the Qualcomm SoC phones I've listened to and the Intel SoC lags badly and just eats battery life. Ugh. From now on I will stick with Arm based SoCs. They have been doing low power processing longer than anyone else and really seem to know what they are doing. Intel is getting out of the SoC business anyway, but I was a bit surprised by how noticeably worse the Intel SoC really is. I hope to swap it for a Qualcomm Snap 410 based device as soon as I can. Hopefully the headphone jack will break soon as they always tend to do for me and that will give me an excuse to buy yet another phone.
It really is so tough to find a phone with decent neutral sounding SoC audio. People here are talking about how important implementation is, but first you need a separate DAC and amp. Without that you won't have anything that is very musical no matter what you do. If anything at the moment I am favoring Mediatek over Qualcomm (or Intel) because at least they tend to have a more neutral (albeit lifeless sounding) tonal balance. The problem with Mediatek SoCs is that they tend to be so quiet. I have a really sensitive IEM at the moment and even that is barely enough for decent volume levels on almost all Mediatek SoC implementations.
Although SoC audio does have some theoretical battery saving advantages vs separate audio chips if you want good audio for music listening I think there really is no way around the separate audio chips even though they almost certainly drain the battery faster and also result in more expensive phones. I still want to listen to a ZTE Zmax 2 or Zmax Pro becuase I've heard so many good things about them, but I'm now guessing that those people were less bothered by an overly warm/dark sound than I am. SoC audio is probably a non-issue for most of you, but even $120 is a lot of money for me. It would be nice if I could find a decent sounding phone for music listening in the $50-$80 range but alas I don't think one exists at the moment if you dislike the always popular warm/bassy/fun tonal balance.
I recently bought an Intel SoC phablet based on some limited listening tests, but now that I actually own it I kind of hate it. The tonal balance seems too warm and bassy for me just as with most of the Qualcomm SoC phones I've listened to and the Intel SoC lags badly and just eats battery life. Ugh. From now on I will stick with Arm based SoCs. They have been doing low power processing longer than anyone else and really seem to know what they are doing. Intel is getting out of the SoC business anyway, but I was a bit surprised by how noticeably worse the Intel SoC really is. I hope to swap it for a Qualcomm Snap 410 based device as soon as I can. Hopefully the headphone jack will break soon as they always tend to do for me and that will give me an excuse to buy yet another phone.
It really is so tough to find a phone with decent neutral sounding SoC audio. People here are talking about how important implementation is, but first you need a separate DAC and amp. Without that you won't have anything that is very musical no matter what you do. If anything at the moment I am favoring Mediatek over Qualcomm (or Intel) because at least they tend to have a more neutral (albeit lifeless sounding) tonal balance. The problem with Mediatek SoCs is that they tend to be so quiet. I have a really sensitive IEM at the moment and even that is barely enough for decent volume levels on almost all Mediatek SoC implementations.
Although SoC audio does have some theoretical battery saving advantages vs separate audio chips if you want good audio for music listening I think there really is no way around the separate audio chips even though they almost certainly drain the battery faster and also result in more expensive phones. I still want to listen to a ZTE Zmax 2 or Zmax Pro becuase I've heard so many good things about them, but I'm now guessing that those people were less bothered by an overly warm/dark sound than I am. SoC audio is probably a non-issue for most of you, but even $120 is a lot of money for me. It would be nice if I could find a decent sounding phone for music listening in the $50-$80 range but alas I don't think one exists at the moment if you dislike the always popular warm/bassy/fun tonal balance.
Couldn`t stand the Audio from the Huawei. It was unbearable after having had the 10 before. Now i`m sitting here and again i`m shocked how good the Sound from that little thing is. There`s no need for Viper, Dolby, Boomsound, absolutely nothing. You install Poweramp, and it blows you away. Now my previous one was on Marshmallow and this one is on Nougat, and i think the sound quality is even better (Or it´s just my ears orgasming after the P9 Plus). 