oddluck
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Guys, I'm not affiliated with any music player. I am not trying to claim any player is the "best". I am simply trying to offer help and advice to V30 users. But I can show you - if you are genuinely interested in learning - that Poweramp on the V30 produces significantly more audible and measurable error than Neutron when playing back 44/16 FLAC. I'll also upload some demos for you to hear - you won't need to do double blind A/B tests - the differences are extremely obvious. If you want to still use Poweramp after that and you still think it's the "best" player for the V30, I'll be happy for you and your subjective preference. I'll think you're nuts, but it's your choice. Now if you're going tell me after this that Poweramp is objectively the better player, then we need a dictionary more than we need audio demos or THD+N measurements. If you're not sure what that is either, we'll need to get a thesaurus and start working towards the letter D...
I'm not endorsing any player over another either and agree with this post. These artifacts are being introduced by the android mixer, and any app not bypassing it and outputting via the DAC in direct mode are subject to them. Maybe people don't notice it, maybe they even prefer it. But we know for a fact the android mixer is resampling to 16/48 regardless of source and we can verify via adb which apps are bypassing the android mixer and which ones are not.
Edit: If people want a subjective comparison from me to another DAC, this phone sounds much better to my ears than my Fiio E17 and my previous phone, an HTC 10.
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