How is sound quality on this? (music) - HTC EVO 3D

I have a voodoo'd galaxy s right now which sounds just great as you might well know.
But am looking to upgrade, and this phone seems great because of the 3D which will make it kinda future proof if you will.
Either way, how is sound quality?

soulzero said:
I have a voodoo'd galaxy s right now which sounds just great as you might well know.
But am looking to upgrade, and this phone seems great because of the 3D which will make it kinda future proof if you will.
Either way, how is sound quality?
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The speaker is fairly quiet until you turn it up, but sounds decent. Plug some headphones in, sounds sweet as it adds SRS.
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Are you talking about the microphone quality? Its incredibly improved over the evo4g. Stereo and picks up a wide range frequency wise. I was amazed how well it recorded a concert I was at. In fact amazed. My evo4g clipped well before this phone and I haven't clipped the mics yet.

Nah im just talking about how music sounds if you got your headphones plugged it.

coming from an itouch 4g, the sound is much quieter and the sound quality is at most half as good imo, but this is with monitor headphones and 320kbps cbr mp3, if you have **** headphones(beats,skullcandy) then it doesnt matter

I had a GalaxyS with Voodoo sound....this 3devo is as good in the sound, a bit faster in all around use, and a bit faster internet with WiMax.
Once it gets a solid perm root and a few roms it will blow the Vibrant I had (with overstock kernel and a team whiskey rom) right out of the water.

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[Q] Phone Upgrade worth it?

Is the Galaxy S II worth upgrading to from a Desire HD? Other than the extra camera and the processor I don't see much of a difference. Help me out cause I'm on the fence.
I wouldn't buy an SGS2 but if it comes with a plan it's a nice upgrade
Yes
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d19375 said:
Is the Galaxy S II worth upgrading to from a Desire HD? Other than the extra camera and the processor I don't see much of a difference. Help me out cause I'm on the fence.
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as you can see in my signature i come from a desire hd as well. compared with the dhd the sgs2 is superior in almost all things:
WAY better screen (although some people have problems with yellowish tint, dead pixels, ...),
far more processing power,
better cam,
WAY better internal speaker and sound quality (you can use the speaker phone with almost no distortion with high volumes),
nice look and feel (first i feared the "plastic" look, but i got used to it and like it now),
much less weight,
to name only what comes to my mind!
so if you trust me, switch to the SGS2, you won't regret it!
d19375 said:
Is the Galaxy S II worth upgrading to from a Desire HD? Other than the extra camera and the processor I don't see much of a difference. Help me out cause I'm on the fence.
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IT's worth it. This device...2GB ROM, 1GB RAM, 1.2Ghz Dual Core which android isn't even completely reeady for yet. The GSII won't be outdated for a long time. Yes, there are the quad cores at year end and about this time next year, but the GSII will still be able to keep up. Don't see more than 1GB RAM in a phone any time soon!
Yes upgrade .
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Thank you people for your replies, as I too am seriously considering the upgrade.
I have heard a lot of positive things about the speaker.
The one thing, is music quality through headphones, compared to the DHD. I listen to a lot of music and love the SRS. I use PowerAMP, and understand you can use an equalizer as well.
Your thoughts on music quality through headphones?
Much appreciated
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muzens said:
Thank you people for your replies, as I too am seriously considering the upgrade.
I have heard a lot of positive things about the speaker.
The one thing, is music quality through headphones, compared to the DHD. I listen to a lot of music and love the SRS. I use PowerAMP, and understand you can use an equalizer as well.
Your thoughts on music quality through headphones?
Much appreciated
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The headphones fit nicer in the ear, because they're the soft rubber (circular-squidgy) style, compared to my old HTC hard earphones with only a thin layer of foam for softness.
However the quality still isn't that good, but then again I am comparing to Bose in-ear headphones which I've gotten used to over the past year.
The quality compared with my iTouch playing a song bought from iTunes, is better. I didn't think it would be but playing Poppiholla - so it's got the bass, treble and a range of different sounds, is better. Of course, the improvement is barely noticeable, but one thing I really do like, is the fact at the top right of the player there's a 5.1 surround sound button. This actually works. I could hear the sound of the song change and it sounded really good. It felt as if it were coming from behind me.
So yes, the quality of sound through ear-phones is damn impressive. I just tested it now. (also if you're playing music, you can tap the home button or unlock the screen and a small widget/console/3 buttons slide in from the top making it easy to skip, rewind/go back or pause the music)
daivik said:
The headphones fit nicer in the ear, because they're the soft rubber (circular-squidgy) style, compared to my old HTC hard earphones with only a thin layer of foam for softness.
However the quality still isn't that good, but then again I am comparing to Bose in-ear headphones which I've gotten used to over the past year.
The quality compared with my iTouch playing a song bought from iTunes, is better. I didn't think it would be but playing Poppiholla - so it's got the bass, treble and a range of different sounds, is better. Of course, the improvement is barely noticeable, but one thing I really do like, is the fact at the top right of the player there's a 5.1 surround sound button. This actually works. I could hear the sound of the song change and it sounded really good. It felt as if it were coming from behind me.
So yes, the quality of sound through ear-phones is damn impressive. I just tested it now. (also if you're playing music, you can tap the home button or unlock the screen and a small widget/console/3 buttons slide in from the top making it easy to skip, rewind/go back or pause the music)
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Thank you very much for the reply, I use a pair of Shure SE210's which I am very happy with. It was just that I had heard lots of comments about the speaker but little about the sound quality through a decent pair of head/earphones.
Thanks again
muzens said:
Thank you very much for the reply, I use a pair of Shure SE210's which I am very happy with. It was just that I had heard lots of comments about the speaker but little about the sound quality through a decent pair of head/earphones.
Thanks again
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I can say that both are good. I was streaming off my NAS Box this morning. Sound quality from it was really good. I had it below half volume and the speaker was a surprisingly good quality, and I was listening to rock (which if I tried to do the same on my Desire, would be very distorted)
Of course the loud speaker comes down to a fair bit of personal opinion, the fact that is on the back, but it's on the bottom of the back - the slightly thicker bit - which is in contact with the surface you put it on. I think it's the sound bouncing back off the surface that actually creates a good sound. Used it on a wooden table and table cloth and the sound quality was good on both.

[Q] Does your speaker suck too? low volume.

Coming from the EVO if I watch a youtube video I can crank it pretty loud. Especially if I cup my hand around the speaker. The speaker volume (speaker phone speaker, not ear piece speaker) on this EVO 3D sucks balls! Wondering if I got a dud or if others notice this too???
Same here wish i could get the dsp control from EVO
Your not the only one! I thought it may have been just me. I was using google Nav and it is very much noticeably quieter then my 4G. So much so I could barely hear it over the road noise in my car. I'm hoping its a software fix and not an indication of a crummy speaker.
Maybe they made it a lighter speaker considering how many broke on the evo 4 g
Me personally, I had to have it replaced twice (on my 4g) N I'm not a frequent user of the speaker phone.
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I guess once it gets rooted we can tweak it to see what it really can do...
+1 on the super quiet speaker compared to OG EVO...
Thanks for the good insight here
I truly learned about many of this, but never the less, I still thought it was beneficial.
Same here. Sound quality is far inferior to my Evo's. However, certain rom/kernel combo's I used on my Evo would yield radically different audio quality, sometimes so bad that I thought the speaker may have been blown. Switching to a different kernel fixed it. Point is, hopefully it's just got some crummy audio drivers and can be improved upon, hopefully greatly improved upon...because I'm rather disappointed with audio quality at the moment.
On a positive note, it sounds great through my headphones, and the built in sound EQ in the music app isn't too bad either.
k2buckley said:
On a positive note, it sounds great through my headphones, and the built in sound EQ in the music app isn't too bad either.
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How is the volume with the head phones?
dwntwnall4u said:
How is the volume with the head phones?
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The sound quality and volume is great through the headphones. I'm using my Skull Candy's and it is FAR more impressive than my OG Evo. With the stock HTC music app, there is a built in EQ (only for headphones), and it has quite a few pre set options, all of which make noticeable and significant audio changes. I am pleased with audio quality over my headphones. The volume is capable of being too loud, where I wouldn't want it up all the way (not distorted though). That wasn't possible with my OG Evo, it would never really get that loud.
This is one of my biggest gripes so far. Even though the volume on my Epic wasn't fantastic, it is still louder than the 3D. I just hate that the ringtones and notifications aren't as loud.
sounds sucks
I can barely hear pandora nw on my Epic 4g it played loud & clear..this is goin 2 be a problem wit me..i always play my music loud when @ work or home any suggestions? I thought this Htc 3d would have came quipped with a decent speaker for music
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I can barely hear pandora nw on my Epic 4g it played loud & clear..this is goin 2 be a problem wit me..i always play my music loud when @ work or home any suggestions? I thought this Htc 3d would have came quipped with a decent speaker for music
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Especially since on HTC's website it says that it plays louder in your pocket or bag until you pick it up.
Thanks for starting this thread. I think you've convinced me to stick with EVO 4G.
The physically smaller screen (narrower). Resolution is important but so is physical size.
The USB on the side (I like to stand it up while using Google Nav) and power is setup to come in from the bottom on two cars (one being a pro-clip) and another a hole I drill in an drawer on my dashboard. Landscape Navigation is dumb. I want to see where I going more than where I could go.
No Kick Stand (not a biggy).
Suspected lower battery life (yet to be really proven though).
Lower Resolution Camera (for normal non-3D).
And now a worse speaker. I thought the EVO 3D speaker was a step down from the old Touch Pro2. And you folks are saying they stepped it down again. Ugh.
Not Rooted (but will likely happen). I was gonna just wait until it's rooted.
Mushy buttons. Although the camera button looks slick.
Next to being a Good Phone, Navigation is probably my next most important use. And beyond that the next most important is Tethering.
I was really looking forward to a new toy. But I have to be practical sometimes.
mswlogo said:
Thanks for starting this thread. I think you've convinced me to stick with EVO 4G.
The physically smaller screen (narrower). Resolution is important but so is physical size.
The USB on the side (I like to stand it up while using Google Nav) and power is setup to come in from the bottom on two cars (one being a pro-clip) and another a hole I drill in an drawer on my dashboard. Landscape Navigation is dumb. I want to see where I going more than where I could go.
No Kick Stand (not a biggy).
Suspected lower battery life (yet to be really proven though).
Lower Resolution Camera (for normal non-3D).
And now a worse speaker. I thought the EVO 3D speaker was a step down from the old Touch Pro2. And you folks are saying they stepped it down again. Ugh.
Not Rooted (but will likely happen). I was gonna just wait until it's rooted.
Mushy buttons. Although the camera button looks slick.
Next to being a Good Phone, Navigation is probably my next most important use. And beyond that the next most important is Tethering.
I was really looking forward to a new toy. But I have to be practical sometimes.
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Glad I could help you make your decision. As for the screen size, its basically the same. yes its a little taller and more narrow but the resolution makes up for that 10x over IMO.
the usb on the side has its pros and cons to me. I didnt like it on the bottom cause I would plug it in to the car charger and turn on google maps and put the phone in the cup holder and it would sit on the charger which couldnt be too good for it. now that it is on the side it is more uncomfortable to use while its plugged in but once I get a charging dock I think I will like it more.
No kickstand does suck but a lot of the cases they are making come with one if that is a must.
personally, I think the battery life is amazing! but I am comparing it to a 1 year old battery my evo had.
I think camera resolution has nothing to do with anything.
My friends 5MP iphone camera took WAY better pics then my 8MP EVO camera. Besides, this camera takes 3D pics.
The low speaker volume which does suck may be fixed with software once the phone is rooted I'm hoping.
I'm also not in love with the power button. especially now that I put a tpu case on. sometimes takes me a few tries to turn my screen on/off.
And it WILL get rooted. just a matter of time. I'm thinking it will be in the next week or two.
Without headphones it sucks
if they dont come up with a fix for the audio iam goin back to my samsung epic unfortunately.i have 2 hear my music..my only MUST is a great speaker for my Pandora when @ work..i have to pull the phone up close 2 hear anything
I think if we complain enough to HTC they can patch with an update
i hope so..i love the phone besides it being 2 low..way 2 low
I thought my phone was broken. No, the speakers on the EVO 3D is just BAD! =(

Sound quality compared with other devices.

How does everyone feel about the sound quality? BEATS rolleyes sounds ok, a bit "overblown."
The real issue, is that compared to my iPhone 4s; the rezound doesn't sound as good. It sounds better than my GS2, but I honestly feel like the 4s has better sound. Anyone else have any input?
I'm using Shure SE215s right now, they sound much better than the beats headphones or the Apple In-ear ones I have.
I think it may depend on the type of Music you listen to man. I listen to mostly rock/hard rock and both the Beats and SkullCandy buds I have sound awesome on the phone! If you install another EQ, I found using the HTC Music app it will screw with Beats. You can only use the alternate EQ outside of HTC Music, like in Google Music, etc. My phone sounded like absolute **** on HTC Music with both Beats and the other EQ on at the same time. Since most other EQ's run in the background, I didn't realize what was going on and almost got pissed off.
I listen to all sorts of stuff. I was lying in bed last night with three sets of headphones, and iPhone 4s, and my rezound. Comparing all sorts of stuff. The same parts of the same track, beats on/off, etc.
No extra equalizer on either.
I can only compare it to my iPod from 2005 and first gen zune but I think it sounds much better, honestly. I listen to rock only, though. I think the ear buds are pretty nice. I never really use earbuds because I use over the head cans for recording etc, but I think these sound pretty good on here!
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Thats kind of my point, I wouldn't say the rezound sounds "bad" by any means. It sounds quite good actually! It sounds better than my GS2.
I just think maybe the iPhone sounds better. I will do more "testing"
Why not just go get an I-Phone 4s ???????
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When you're stating your thoughts, you should state at the minimum:
App you were using to play music
Beats on or off or other EQ etc...
What you were listening on
I want to know how it sounds when connected to a car or home theater system. My thunderbolt sounds just fine with headphones but connect it to a car or HT system and there is quite a bit of hiss included with the audio. This has persisted over multiple roms, kernels, and apps. I imagine the hiss is still there with headphones as well but the volume is less when using headphones. When connected to an external amplifier, the volume is maxed just to get a reasonable signal to the other device.
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Why not just go get an I-Phone 4s ???????
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... I have one. Great post by the way.
When you're stating your thoughts, you should state at the minimum:
App you were using to play music
Beats on or off or other EQ etc...
What you were listening on
I want to know how it sounds when connected to a car or home theater system. My thunderbolt sounds just fine with headphones but connect it to a car or HT system and there is quite a bit of hiss included with the audio. This has persisted over multiple roms, kernels, and apps. I imagine the hiss is still there with headphones as well but the volume is less when using headphones. When connected to an external amplifier, the volume is maxed just to get a reasonable signal to the other device.
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I stated all that? I tried apple in ear, beats that came with the rezound, and my shure SE215s.
I tried beats On and Off, that was part of my first post.
Just using the standard HTC music app and the standard iphone music app.
I use my rezound to listen to audiobooks on my long commute hooked up to the car, i'm actually not into car audio at all, so I wont' be any help there. I don't notice any kind of hiss with the rezound, I definitely had it with the garbage Bionic. I usually keep the rezound a notch below max and compensate with the car volume.
My Rezound has weak audio threw the speaker... not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. Choppy, distorted and low, but it might be because of the type of music. Most of my music has a lot of bass.
The reason other EQs sound bad w/ BA enabled is because BA when on is a custom EQ setting. In other words you shouldn't mix 2 EQ settings together, BA(beats audio) is simply a EQ profile made by HTC or Beats.
what ace said. if someones using Eq with beats, then sigh lol...
but i don't have an iphone4s to try out, so i don't have a comparison..all i've got is a 6 year old ipod that isn't even a touch lol
eallan said:
How does everyone feel about the sound quality? BEATS rolleyes sounds ok, a bit "overblown."
The real issue, is that compared to my iPhone 4s; the rezound doesn't sound as good. It sounds better than my GS2, but I honestly feel like the 4s has better sound. Anyone else have any input?
I'm using Shure SE215s right now, they sound much better than the beats headphones or the Apple In-ear ones I have.
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'call quality' is comparable to the Incredible 2(and definitely better then the Thunderbolt), especially when using Skype.
'sound quality', not really an improvement per se, just they add in a custom 'Beats' EQ to the stock player to try and awe people.
all beats is is a custom EQ setting with more emphasis on lows + you can't even adjust the EQ to your liking. the headphones are ok for being throw ins, but the Bose headphones for around the same price have a bit better clarity and the bass response is a bit better to(just that the dres hit a tad harder).
I'm not trying to put down the phone(heck I bought one) or anything... it does have a really nice screen and performs slightly better then an overclocked Thunderbolt(probably due to Google doing a poor job with the dual-core architecture).... but if you bought/want this phone just because of the whole "Beats By Dre" bit, then you've been had sucka!
p.s. btw, the one thing Apple has done with pure excellence is iphone/ipod EQ. probably the best out there period.
i believe i read somewhere the beats eq is an active eq that constantly adjusts to compensate for frequency loss etc. if so, that's a nice feature.
I don't care who invented beats anyways, I love Monster's products, and this is one of them, lol. People are under the perception this is a Dr. Dre owned and operated business, wrong. It's just the branding, and like the above said, to awe people.
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i believe i read somewhere the beats eq is an active eq that constantly adjusts to compensate for frequency loss etc. if so, that's a nice feature.
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Maybe, but check the engadget review of sensation xe, they show you the eq settings of beats audio.
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The external speaker on my Incredible sounded louder than the one on my Rezound, although through the beats headphones music sounds great. At times it's a little too bass heavy for me because I listen to a lot of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal and the bass drum and detuned bass guitar over power the guitars and vocals.
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When you're stating your thoughts, you should state at the minimum:
App you were using to play music
Beats on or off or other EQ etc...
What you were listening on
I want to know how it sounds when connected to a car or home theater system. My thunderbolt sounds just fine with headphones but connect it to a car or HT system and there is quite a bit of hiss included with the audio. This has persisted over multiple roms, kernels, and apps. I imagine the hiss is still there with headphones as well but the volume is less when using headphones. When connected to an external amplifier, the volume is maxed just to get a reasonable signal to the other device.
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I had a thunderbolt before this and I hook my phone up through AUX input in my truck EVERY time I drive it. The quality of sound that comes from the rezound is light years ahead of my thunderbolt. Like its a night and day difference, even in pandora the sound quality is WAYYYYYYYYYYY better. I never had the hiss you speak of but I the sound was just super low compared to this phone. Yesterday we had my phone and an iphone4 hooked up through the AUX port in 2 different cars and it didn't matter what we played it sounded better on mine. I will say that the other two guys with me preferred the Power amp app over the stock music player with beats.
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'call quality' is comparable to the Incredible 2(and definitely better then the Thunderbolt), especially when using Skype.
'sound quality', not really an improvement per se, just they add in a custom 'Beats' EQ to the stock player to try and awe people.
all beats is is a custom EQ setting with more emphasis on lows + you can't even adjust the EQ to your liking. the headphones are ok for being throw ins, but the Bose headphones for around the same price have a bit better clarity and the bass response is a bit better to(just that the dres hit a tad harder).
I'm not trying to put down the phone(heck I bought one) or anything... it does have a really nice screen and performs slightly better then an overclocked Thunderbolt(probably due to Google doing a poor job with the dual-core architecture).... but if you bought/want this phone just because of the whole "Beats By Dre" bit, then you've been had sucka!
p.s. btw, the one thing Apple has done with pure excellence is iphone/ipod EQ. probably the best out there period.
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To be honest I don't care much about call quality. I hate talking on the phone.
I just figured marketing this phone with beats and audio and packing in decent head phones they may have used some nice hardware as well. I'd love to see a total teardown and chip li st.
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poor video recorded sound quality

Just wondering what you guys think of it? I go to a lot of concerts and music festivals and the video quality on the note is superb. However, the sound from the video is horrible. The one thing that me and my friends all agree upon is the video sound recording on the iphone is better than any phone out there. The note simply cannot handle loud sounds, particularly really loud bass. The sound on the whole video is just off and it sounds like the microphone is in direct wind. Dont get me wrong, I love the note and I am an android fanboy, however I think this is an area which the iphone dominates. What do you guys think about the sound recording quality? Is there anyway to fix this through software? hardware?
never found a problem with audio from video recordings. few weeks ago i was filming a drift event at a local track and sound came out fine with all the loud noises going on.
Speaking of, do you guys have any YouTube links of vids with your note?
I just can't seem to live with out a removable storage, and I have been leaning in the notes direction.
I am just worried about video, and pic quality with the note...I had a 4g galaxy s and the pics were awful.
Sorry if I am hijacking.
What's your honest.opinions about vid quality?
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the playback of audio recorded with a video is going to bad if you are recording anything with a lot of bass or any high dB sounds that are above the microphones ability to capture. These phones use a microphone thats really just a small speaker, when loud sounds are being emitted and your trying to capture them they can ofter "bottom out" the microphone so that all you hear is loud static distortion or if the bass is really heavy, nothing at all.
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Speaking of, do you guys have any YouTube links of vids with your note?
I just can't seem to live with out a removable storage, and I have been leaning in the notes direction.
I am just worried about video, and pic quality with the note...I had a 4g galaxy s and the pics were awful.
Sorry if I am hijacking.
What's your honest.opinions about vid quality?
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I think the video quality is awesome on this phone. I haven't watched them on any external devices though, my opinion is purely off of viewing the videos off the phone.
As far as the drift meet you went to, I'm pretty sure the note can handle the sounds of screeching tires, I am mainly talking about BASS. I understand that almost all devices have a certain limit until the microphone can no longer handle the strong bass. The sound gets distorted, and you can't hear anything else. All I am saying is that somehow the iphone is able to handle strong bass at a concert even when you are standing pretty close to the stage. Anyone else experience the distorted sound on their note?
I have personally experienced this and it must be due to the different build qualities of the microphone. Is it possible to attach an external microphone via the headphone jack and use that to record video sound rather than using the one built into the phone? that would make a huge difference IMO
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Speaking of, do you guys have any YouTube links of vids with your note?
I just can't seem to live with out a removable storage, and I have been leaning in the notes direction.
I am just worried about video, and pic quality with the note...I had a 4g galaxy s and the pics were awful.
Sorry if I am hijacking.
What's your honest.opinions about vid quality?
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http://youtu.be/N06GsbGyh28 shot this 2 weeks ago, first time messing with video on the phone, i was impressed by the clarity of both picture and sound, just need a dern zoom feature while filming
also not sure why your expecting amazing quality sound from recording a live performance, no matter what phone if ur close to the speakers your not going to get non distorted sound, ive owned every iphone and never heard clear quality sound after going back and watching vids i took at partys and such, i do belive i saw something on engadget the other day about a better quality mic u can plug into the headphones jack
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/31/irig-mic-cast-hands-on/ well its for idevices but im sure there has to be something similar for android
I was just thinking about this before bed last night. I was looking at some recently shot kareoke videos from my note. The audio quality is absolutely horrendous. Like...disappointing bad.
My atrix was was leaps and bounds better. Was able to handle (and reproduce) bass just fine. Never distorted the audio like the note does. From concerts (rock mind you) to kareoke, anything...I guess its an unfortunate con ill have to live with.
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freakboy13 said:
Speaking of, do you guys have any YouTube links of vids with your note?
I just can't seem to live with out a removable storage, and I have been leaning in the notes direction.
I am just worried about video, and pic quality with the note...I had a 4g galaxy s and the pics were awful.
Sorry if I am hijacking.
What's your honest.opinions about vid quality?
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I know exactly what you mean, in terms of capturing sound at, say...a concert. It is overpowered. I've heard that one way to tackle this problem is to put tape, or a finger, over the mic hole when recording.
Here's a vid I took when I saw The Black Keys a cpl months ago. I even wrote in the description that it's a shame the sound is crappy...
http://youtu.be/oHB95ciSArA
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http://youtu.be/N06GsbGyh28 shot this 2 weeks ago, first time messing with video on the phone, i was impressed by the clarity of both picture and sound, just need a dern zoom feature while filming
also not sure why your expecting amazing quality sound from recording a live performance, no matter what phone if ur close to the speakers your not going to get non distorted sound, ive owned every iphone and never heard clear quality sound after going back and watching vids i took at partys and such, i do belive i saw something on engadget the other day about a better quality mic u can plug into the headphones jack
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/31/irig-mic-cast-hands-on/ well its for idevices but im sure there has to be something similar for android
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I am not expecting amazing sound quality, just good enough so that it doesnt sound like crap. Obviously microphones on phones have their limits, but as I have stated, and as others in this thread have stated, the note is pretty bad at recording sound. My girlfriend has an iphone and all of my friends have iphones, and trust me, the sound recording is much better on it. Still love my Note though, best phone ever!
I seen rammstein and just like the others said.. Very loud sounds makes the audio sound very muffled and hard to hear.. I wonder if I had the the recording volume set halfway. If it would of sounded better?
Intro rammstein:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iz5ln0mDOZ0
Rammstein du hast mich song: The fire on the stage even made my video playback weird from the light!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iz5ln0mDOZ0
I can tell you this, its way better than HTCs Video playback. Their sound quality is low.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
SKyRocKeting727 said:
I can tell you this, its way better than HTCs Video playback. Their sound quality is low.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
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That's sad. Because I can't imagine anything worse than the note... makes me miss my atrix.
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I found a solution by connecting the ear set of the phone and using it`s mic to rec sound. At levels as high as 110db that i tested (in a consert)
Sound quality was audible enough. So thats my pov on this subject. You should try it.

Sound quality through speakers and headphones

So, I got my One yesterday and I've been playing around with it quite a bit since then. I have to say that the speakers didn't really blow me away, but they are a lot better than most phones I have heard. I think it is quite silly of HTC to be bombarding the TV with commercials about the speakers when the camera is a better feature in my opinion. Anyways, I tried the included headphones and was pretty disappointed with them. They felt cheap as hell and I thought that the sound coming out of them was pretty crap. Thankfully, I recently purchased a pair of Klipsch Image x10s so I threw them on and I was very impressed with the sound coming out of the phone. It is super powerful. I am listening at 75-80% right now and it is almost painful. The Beats audio "enhancement" is pleasureable to me, but in reality is just adding some low end emphasis to the EQ settings. Still, it results in a fuller sound and I am porbably going to leave it on permamnently given how night and day the difference is through the BoomSound speakers without it. I know a lot of people have been saying that the audio quality wouldn't be as good as the S4 because that has the holy Wolfson DAC, but I have to say that I think the audio coming out of the One is clean, crisp, and has no appreciable noise as far as I can tell. What do you guys think?
Ya my wife usually makes fun of all my android phones when it comes to audio output volume / clarity compared to her iPhone. For the first time ever she was very impressed. That's as unbiased as it gets.
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NikAmi said:
So, I got my One yesterday and I've been playing around with it quite a bit since then. I have to say that the speakers didn't really blow me away, but they are a lot better than most phones I have heard. I think it is quite silly of HTC to be bombarding the TV with commercials about the speakers when the camera is a better feature in my opinion. Anyways, I tried the included headphones and was pretty disappointed with them. They felt cheap as hell and I thought that the sound coming out of them was pretty crap. Thankfully, I recently purchased a pair of Klipsch Image x10s so I threw them on and I was very impressed with the sound coming out of the phone. It is super powerful. I am listening at 75-80% right now and it is almost painful. The Beats audio "enhancement" is pleasureable to me, but in reality is just adding some low end emphasis to the EQ settings. Still, it results in a fuller sound and I am porbably going to leave it on permamnently given how night and day the difference is through the BoomSound speakers without it. I know a lot of people have been saying that the audio quality wouldn't be as good as the S4 because that has the holy Wolfson DAC, but I have to say that I think the audio coming out of the One is clean, crisp, and has no appreciable noise as far as I can tell. What do you guys think?
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I agree. though I would argue the speakerphone is better than the camera, relative to my last phone at least, the note 2. speaker was pretty loud on that, but quality was bad. The one is louder and more clear for me, while I'm kinda meh about the picture quality.
attached files related.
first is with a 15w florescent bulb lighting my room at night and -2 sharpness, and the second is with my monitor being the only ambient light in night mode. Good? Yes. Better than my note 2 was? probably. Great? Eh.
though on a note: I was surprised in the second one: the photo is actually a little brighter than the scene was to my actual eyes. somewhatimpressed/10

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