[Marmite]

I had a Samsung S6 Edge (Exynos) and it sounded OK, but didn't go very loud. I'm sure Samsung (and most other brands) are fine with normal IEMs, but try to drive some proper headphones and LG's phones are the only ones worth considering.

 

[monsieurfromag3]

I had a Samsung S6 Edge (Exynos) and it sounded OK, but didn't go very loud. I'm sure Samsung (and most other brands) are fine with normal IEMs, but try to drive some proper headphones and LG's phones are the only ones worth considering.

Honestly with Samsung phones amplification power is not the only problem. Obviously with hard-to-drive gear you won’t get a peep. But the entire audio section is a trainwreck with so-called “normal” iems and headphones too. Robotic, non-musical; it’s what happens when you tune nothing and rely on basic functionality. The DAC converts. The amp amplifies. You hear sounds. Job done as far as they were concerned. You can’t show music on a presentation slide, and the majority of users will be satisfied as long as there’s bass, so it’s too much engineering overhead for too little return.

Marketing could save us paradoxically, if audio becomes a differentiating point, especially if Apple pushes it at some point, it will become a selling point again. Everyone will fight to have the best audio specs. But by the time this happens it wll be a battle fought entirely over Bluetooth.

 

[stemplar]

https://www.stereophile.com/content/lg-v30-hi-res-smartphone-mqa
hahahaha LG V30 (($500)) Hi-Res smartphone with MQA v.s Aurender A10 (($5500))
And the winner .. read it, you know. I think this AK ,,has thrown back,,.
And all orthodox audiophiles are too...

 

[alota]

well. today i tried again my lg v30 connecetd in analog to my sherbourn sr-120. this A/V amplifier in two channel mode is really impressive.
but more impressine IMHO is the lg v30. honestly for the price of aurender i´ll buy a stax sr-009 with a dac/amp using lg v30 like source

 

[cj3209]

https://www.stereophile.com/content/lg-v30-hi-res-smartphone-mqa
hahahaha LG V30 (($500)) Hi-Res smartphone with MQA v.s Aurender A10 (($5500))
And the winner .. read it, you know. I think this AK ,,has thrown back,,.
And all orthodox audiophiles are too...

gahhh...LMAO...

 

[RockStar2005]

https://www.stereophile.com/content/lg-v30-hi-res-smartphone-mqa
hahahaha LG V30 (($500)) Hi-Res smartphone with MQA v.s Aurender A10 (($5500))
And the winner .. read it, you know. I think this AK ,,has thrown back,,.
And all orthodox audiophiles are too...

That's awesome! But F MQA!! LOL I don't believe in that crap. AAC for life!!

 

[Marmite]

https://www.stereophile.com/content/lg-v30-hi-res-smartphone-mqa
hahahaha LG V30 (($500)) Hi-Res smartphone with MQA v.s Aurender A10 (($5500))
And the winner .. read it, you know. I think this AK ,,has thrown back,,.
And all orthodox audiophiles are too...

Just think that the reviewer would have been even more impressed if using UAP or Poweramp. Probably to tricky for a Mac user though.

 

[jagwap]

I remember. I had dvd-audio player, great format killed by mlp

MLP didn't kill DVDA, the pubic's lack of interest did.

MLP is still used on Bluray. Dolby bought it off Meridian for half a million quid.

 

[jagwap]

Meridian are better than B&O Play, who are a bunch of project managers in Singapore shouting at ODM factories in China. B&O in Denmark are very qualified, but shrinking in number year by year as people buy B&O Play thinking they are getting the full B&O quality. B&O head R&D are called in to some B&O Play products but you never know when. This may be why B&O and B&O Play have been merged.

I suspect Meridian have been called in to fully implement MQA and ensure the ESS chipset is incorporated with best practices. The sound of a DAC is influenced more by layout and power supply more than the number of bits.

 

[stemplar]

Meridian are better than B&O Play, who are a bunch of project managers in Singapore shouting at ODM factories in China. B&O in Denmark are very qualified, but shrinking in number year by year as people buy B&O Play thinking they are getting the full B&O quality. B&O head R&D are called in to some B&O Play products but you never know when. This may be why B&O and B&O Play have been merged.

I suspect Meridian have been called in to fully implement MQA and ensure the ESS chipset is incorporated with best practices. The sound of a DAC is influenced more by layout and power supply more than the number of bits.

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There are measurements on that link. And they support what they've heard. How do you use the meridian with a mobile phone? I can not do it ..

 

[stemplar]

But this is not a nice future. The V40 has become so big. This is about Note 9 size.

 

[alota]

MLP didn't kill DVDA, the pubic's lack of interest did.

MLP is still used on Bluray. Dolby bought it off Meridian for half a million quid.

Mlp was useless.

 

[Marmite]

But this is not a nice future. The V40 has become so big. This is about Note 9 size.

Love big phones. The missus has a 7" Honor Note 10 and its a great device.

 

[jagwap]

Mlp was useless.

It WASN'T useless, as it predated FLAC and many others. It is less useful now. The flexibility allowed DVD A to exist. It is more efficient at hi res than most other lossless codecs.

It was devised by some of the finest audio theoreticians such as Peter Craven and Micheal Gezon.

Do you have any facts to back up your statement?

 

[alota]

It WASN'T useless, as it predated FLAC and many others. It is less useful now. The flexibility allowed DVD A to exist. It is more efficient at hi res than most other lossless codecs.

It was devised by some of the finest audio theoreticians such as Peter Craven and Micheal Gezon.

Do you have any facts to back up your statement?

was useless in my opinion just because dvd-audio had space and capacity to store in one disc a hi-res files without the need of codecs and algorithm; just pcm. a coomercial gimmick that caused the death of dvd-audio and the short victory of sacd