I use an HTC ONE S as my portable music player and other than the issue I'm going to describe I'm thrilled with the sound. It's clean powerful and generally great, BUT...
I get the very strangest issues with the line output. At some points during a lot of songs there are sounds missing and I know this because they're clearly audible on my desktop speakers. It's like they're very muted and waaaay in the back and sometimes they're completely inaudible. And it's not even that a whole channel is missing, say there's no sound for things panned right or left, no -it's sounds in the center. For instance, there would be this part that had drums, bass, guitars and effects, and a very specific guitar is silent. Sometimes it's other sounds, like FX, or keyboards.
There was this one time when lint got into the headphone jack and I thought that was the reason, but I have since taken it out with a pair of very tiny tweezers. Now... it's true I don't know if I managed to get it all out since I probably didn't notice it until some time after it got in and I probably must've pressed it inside there with the jack, but I did take out a nice hefty piece of lint. Oh, and the jack doesn't seem to fully enter the headphone jack.
Need help with a very strange audio output issue on my phone.
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- KVRAF
- 6323 posts since 30 Dec, 2004 from London uk
What are you comparing the sound of your phone to? MP3 uses Psychoacoustic compression and what you describe could be down to encoding.
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- KVRAF
- 6323 posts since 30 Dec, 2004 from London uk
It could be the player your using, it may have FX and eq enabled.
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- KVRAF
- 6323 posts since 30 Dec, 2004 from London uk
Ive just Googled - The phone has hardware EQ called beats audio. youll need to work round it :
http://www.geek.com/android/how-to-mana ... s-1559785/
http://www.geek.com/android/how-to-mana ... s-1559785/