I listen to Pandora a lot and I plan on getting this phone tomorrow. I just was wondering if the equalizer works with Pandora and how the equalizer works in general with the ear buds. Thanks.
The EQ works for the entire audio output of the phone through the headphone jack, so it would affect pandora as well I would assume.
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The EQ works for the entire audio output of the phone through the headphone jack, so it would affect pandora as well I would assume.
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I've read reviews that say the Beats Audio is only available in the HTC audio app.
I believe Beats is only for the HTC music app, other apps will not have beats audio enabled.
just use Equalizer
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It does not work in Pandora. Only in the stock apps like the HTC music player. Maybe it will be added to other apps in the future, but I doubt it since it's rather specialized to one manufacturer of phones right now. I have heard of very good EQ apps like those posted in this thread though. I really don't think the Beats EQ setting is so special that it can't be replicated pretty easily.
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It does not work in Pandora. Only in the stock apps like the HTC music player. Maybe it will be added to other apps in the future, but I doubt it since it's rather specialized to one manufacturer of phones right now. I have heard of very good EQ apps like those posted in this thread though. I really don't think the Beats EQ setting is so special that it can't be replicated pretty easily.
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I never listen to music on my phone with headphones anyway, just through the aux on my car stereo. even then I set eq through the stereo anyway. headphone wise I just use them with my ipod touch when I'm at the gym.
Picked mine up Monday.
Beats only activates when playing through the HTC music app and Headphones (any) are present. Sound is more Robust with beats activated, and much louder.
I was surprised at how much louder the audio became. Many times I've longed for more head room on my iPod or phone. Please be warned at High Volumes beats can cause hearing loss. I hope Dr. Dre and HTC put a disclaimer out there somewhere.
Maybe they only tested the software with the iBeats included.
I will checkout Pandora, never used it on mobile since it was not supported well on WM6.5. I did checkout Slacker, and it was the worst sounding crap I've ever heard. Anything that resembles bass has severe clipping. Haven't tried the beats earphones yet as I have a nice pair of Ultimate Ears Superfi 5 Pros, as well as a pair of Klipsch image S4's.
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I listen to Pandora a lot and I plan on getting this phone tomorrow. I just was wondering if the equalizer works with Pandora and how the equalizer works in general with the ear buds. Thanks.
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Actually it does work. Beats Audio is activated as soon as you plug in headphones. What you cannot do is control the EQ Curve in Pandora so you receive the default "other" setting.
If you get a sense 4 Rom it works great
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with a stock (unmodded) rezound, it only works with the Music app. You can mod it to have it available anytime
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I have used the headsets from lots of devices for listening to music. I'm no audiophile so don't get me wrong but the Samsung supplied headset is AWFUL. Tried some apple headphones which sounded a little better some more bass.
My 5 pound phillips headphones sound the best lots of bass. Are there any audio tweaks to be done or is that as good as it gets?
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I like the samsung headset a lot actually. You could use the built in equalizer on the stock Music app or download Equalizer from the market and just turn the bass up. Some people say that the 2.3.5 update sounds better, can't tell the difference to be honest.
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I like the samsung headset a lot actually. You could use the built in equalizer on the stock Music app or download Equalizer from the market and just turn the bass up. Some people say that the 2.3.5 update sounds better, can't tell the difference to be honest.
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i too think it's not too bad at all certainly better than than my old HTC one which wasn't very good,as you said if you download the equalizer app from the market and i use Power Amp the sound is quite good actually.
use ipod earphones..cheap and cheerful..
seriously though if you really want a good set of earphones go and get beats by Dr Dre..you can get good ones on Amazon and at a reasonable price
Thanks to dsp manager, I up the the bass real high when headsets are plugged in and thanks to the ibeats being able to produce high amounts of bass, my music on the phone sounds amazing!
I was wondering if anyone's ibeats have blown out because the bass was set too high? If not, I may be the first to report this in the future lol, hope not.
I have heard them pop with some frequencies when the bass was up, but I have maxed them out and I don't think they will blow. Hey since the headphones came with the phone are they covered under the year warranty? Or do they have one from monster?
I have to make this quick. If you want more info send me a message.
The only thing that will blow any speaker is distortion which you will hear.
Never turn the volume up all the way. At this setting the sound will likely not be clean and clear but it has nothing to do with volume. Most audio sources will distort at full volume. If you want it louder use an app like PowerAmp and increase the preamp output instead.
If its still not loud enough get a headphone amp! I have one and the iBeats will go so loud it actually hurts my ears after a few minutes.
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I have heard them pop with some frequencies when the bass was up, but I have maxed them out and I don't think they will blow. Hey since the headphones came with the phone are they covered under the year warranty? Or do they have one from monster?
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Don't quote me on this but I remember reading that they are covered.
Yes, they are covered. I was having problems with the control module on the headphones - the play'pause/talk button, specifically. I called Verizon and they told me I could take them to any official Verizon store - not the "authorized dealers, but an actual VZW location - and get them replaced.
The second pair works beautifully but I'm planning on selling them. I'm going to pick up a pair of the Beats Tour earbuds, which will also work with the phone.
And one last item of curiosity - I plugged in my Shure se110 headphones to my Rezound last week and, to my surprise, Beats Audio fired up. Pretty cool.
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Yes, they are covered. I was having problems with the control module on the headphones - the play'pause/talk button, specifically. I called Verizon and they told me I could take them to any official Verizon store - not the "authorized dealers, but an actual VZW location - and get them replaced.
The second pair works beautifully but I'm planning on selling them. I'm going to pick up a pair of the Beats Tour earbuds, which will also work with the phone.
And one last item of curiosity - I plugged in my Shure se110 headphones to my Rezound last week and, to my surprise, Beats Audio fired up. Pretty cool.
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If you use the music player with any pair of headphones, the beats equalizer can/will be enabled on the phone
I have a Sony A2DP head in my truck... 300 watt amp, 12" sub, yada yada. Beats Audio DSP bumps, earbuds or no earbuds. And Pandora is thumping too.
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If you use the music player with any pair of headphones, the beats equalizer can/will be enabled on the phone
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It doesn't even have to be headphones, I plug mine into iPod speakers, studio monitors.. as long as there's something in the headphone Jack.
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It doesn't even have to be headphones, I plug mine into iPod speakers, studio monitors.. as long as there's something in the headphone Jack.
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Yupp exactly. I plug my car audio into the phone all the time and beats audio gets enabled when ever I use the stock music player
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Yupp exactly. I plug my car audio into the phone all the time and beats audio gets enabled when ever I use the stock music player
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Lol I almost destroyed my cousins car today. Little too much bass
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I've been considering for a while to buy a good headphones and I've decided to buy an audio technica ath-m50. The only thing that is bothering me is the yamaha audio chip. If I buy those headphones, I'll be using them most of the time on my sgs2.
Will the yamaha chip make the ath-m50 sound like a cheap low-end headphone?
If you happen to own an ath-m50 I wold really appreciate it if you could measure the hollow of the earth cups, diagonally and horizontally maybe. I've read that people with large ears may find them uncomfortable. The length of my ears are just below 7cm(I don't care, they are small, my mum told me that)
I've read supercurio's analysis of the audio chip but my question still remains.
Waiting eagerly for any response.
Get an iPod nano- excellent sound quality and a great price. I hate using my GSII for music though Poweramp is a great app
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I've been considering for a while to buy a good headphones and I've decided to buy an audio technica ath-m50. The only thing that is bothering me is the yamaha audio chip. If I buy those headphones, I'll be using them most of the time on my sgs2.
Will the yamaha chip make the ath-m50 sound like a cheap low-end headphone?
If you happen to own an ath-m50 I wold really appreciate it if you could measure the hollow of the earth cups, diagonally and horizontally maybe. I've read that people with large ears may find them uncomfortable. The length of my ears are just below 7cm(I don't care, they are small, my mum told me that)
I've read supercurio's analysis of the audio chip but my question still remains.
Waiting eagerly for any response.
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Well, if you really want to use a pair of high end headphones with the galaxy sII, get a portable amp like i did. I got a fiio e7, and it powers the ath-m50just fine. Listening to them straight out of the GSII audio jack wont let them utilise their full power. And dont get an iPod if you want really high quality audio. :-/ (Just a suggestion )
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@OP go head and also look at this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405840
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@OP go head and also look at this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405840
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I have bought that app even though I rarely use it because for me the s2 is loud enough. I'm more worried about the quality of the sound.
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I have bought that app even though I rarely use it because for me the s2 is loud enough. I'm more worried about the quality of the sound.
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It simple buddy take your handset into a store that sells these headsets and test the thing in house.
From there your should be able to make up your mind.
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It simple buddy take your handset into a store that sells these headsets and test the thing in house.
From there your should be able to make up your mind.
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I've thought of this, the only problem is finding a store that sells the audio technica ath-m50. I live in London I'm sure there is plenty of stores.
However this would not be much help because I'm not very experienced with high end headphones, so probably almost anything will sound good to me.
If you want to listen to boom boom music with heavy bass then the SGS2 is inadequate .Expensive headphones are not going to do that much .
However as a user who does not have any boom boom music i find stock player headphones or slightly upmarket low end Sennheiser headphones fine .
Power Amp for me strangely lowers sound output level .
jje
I've the same experience as JJEgan with Power Amp. It seems to boost dynamic range at the sacrifice of overall volume.
For getting the best out of high-end headphones, you could always try Neutron Music Player from Android Market. It claims to use its own "32-bit audio music rendering core", although it's debatable whether this makes a difference, given that uncompressed CDs only have 16-bits per sample. People seem to like it, though.
Just recently I noticed something when listening to music using Poweramp with a headphone.
When you click on something such as the app drawer, the volume of the music that you are listening to increases for fraction of a second then it goes back to normal.
It can be very annoying when you are using the phone while listening.
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Thanks for all the replies.
I've started to change my mind about buying an audio technica ath-m50, maybe I should stick with the headphones from poundland.
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Tephlon said:
I've the same experience as JJEgan with Power Amp. It seems to boost dynamic range at the sacrifice of overall volume.
For getting the best out of high-end headphones, you could always try Neutron Music Player from Android Market. It claims to use its own "32-bit audio music rendering core", although it's debatable whether this makes a difference, given that uncompressed CDs only have 16-bits per sample. People seem to like it, though.
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Tried Neutron at the weekend, and these old ears couldn't see - OK, hear - what the fuss is about. No difference from Poweramp with a very unscientific ABX on my Sennheiser IE8s.
Definitely the worst UI I've seen on any music player though - so hideous that it should win awards.
Get rockbox.
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I use studio beats by dre, they have an amp built into them and they kick bass hard, hi fi quality audio! I work in poundland and trust me their headphones don't work well with the sg2, i hope this helps
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I'm going to buy AKG K240 mk II.
I will buy a FiiO E6 with the AKG. The last tweaks will be done with DSP.
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Senn HD25-1s and Ety ER4-Ps both sound fine straight out of the headphone socket.
Using poweramp, without any eq or tone control tweaks, just ~30% crossfeed.
I read all the reports of crappy audio on the GS2, so when I got mine and tried it I was very pleasantly suprised.
Whereabouts in Poweramp settings is crossfeed...Didn't realise Poweramp supported it ?
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Senn HD25-1s and Ety ER4-Ps both sound fine straight out of the headphone socket.
Using poweramp, without any eq or tone control tweaks, just ~30% crossfeed.
I read all the reports of crappy audio on the GS2, so when I got mine and tried it I was very pleasantly suprised.
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On the tone/vol/bal page, next to the volume control. It's labeled stereo x.
Ahhhh. So that's what Poweramp calls crossfeed. Gotcha Yeah I normally have that on around 35% with Brainwavz M3's.
Thanks for that bit of info
Edit to add - Out of thanks for the day, will hit you up later.
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On the tone/vol/bal page, next to the volume control. It's labeled stereo x.
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No problem
hey,
I don't know how many people cares but i think the sound from the Audio Beat is great. I like the way i can feel the base and sound a lot more clear.
Thumbs up. What ya think ?
i went thru a ton of songs turning beats audio on and then off to compare the sound effects. everything sounds better when beats audio is on. im very happy with it
I agree. I have some studios I'm listening to right now and I didn't notice it at first in the notifications bar it was off then switched it on. I'm also using Poweramp I'm sure that helps also. And oh wow I just realized while typing this the keyboard in the notification bar as well. I was wondering how to change boards without going all the way in the settings lol
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Tried Beats Audio with my Bose QC15's, and it sounds great! I didn't think it would make much of a difference, but leaving Beats Audio on certainly does sound better.
So you do not have to have Beats branded headphones to turn on the Beats "equalizer"?
Hey guys do any of you know if the beats audio control talk works?
Thanks
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So you do not have to have Beats branded headphones to turn on the Beats "equalizer"?
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Nope, works via any headphones or bluetooth speaker. No matter the brand.
Hells yes! Even playing it via Bluetooth to my 3 year old Kenwood deck. I didn't even think beats would make a diff. Night and day vs. my old nexus s
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how are you guys turning beats on and off?
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how are you guys turning beats on and off?
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When you plug in headphones, in the status bar a beats logo will appear, if it's red then it's on but if not just pull down the bar and hit it
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When you plug in headphones, in the status bar a beats logo will appear, if it's red then it's on but if not just pull down the bar and hit it
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Ahh i dont have any plug in headphones. Does it work on bluetooth headphones? I have a pair of the motorola S9 and S10 stereo headsets.
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Ahh i dont have any plug in headphones. Does it work on bluetooth headphones? I have a pair of the motorola S9 and S10 stereo headsets.
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I'm not sure. If I had a Bluetooth I would try it for ya but I don't sorry. And sorry if you know this or somebody might have misunderstood me, the beats turns on with any headset it don't have to be a pair of beats
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I'm not sure. If I had a Bluetooth I would try it for ya but I don't sorry. And sorry if you know this or somebody might have misunderstood me, the beats turns on with any headset it don't have to be a pair of beats
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I will give it a try with the bluetooth. I think its in the car. if not when i get home
Yes it does work, I tried it with both and the sound was just like studio sound. Can't wait to try beats with beats by dre headphones.
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sounds good in the car.
was flat before, now its got some audible highs and lows.
isnt beats just an eq adjustment anyways?
would be great if youre just using the builtin media player, but if you got poweramp, you can tweak just the same.
Beats audio is a preferance thing. I hate it because it doesn't make the sound pure. I just buy better headphones, but if you do buy per say over priced and badly equalized beats headphones, then you do need a dsp to make it sound good
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Agreed. Also with most headphones and car speakers you need to minimize the dynamic range so it sounds better. Add a mobile headphone amp and you'll really hear a difference.
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Just wanted to add a little more info to the thread. As already stated there is definitely a difference with beats on vs off. Not sure if HTC deliberately made the stock setting flat to emphasize beats although their stock eq was never really great before they added beats anyways. Now to the extra info since no one else posted. There is a built in equalizer that's for some reason not easily accessible unless you were looking for it. If you go to Settings->Sound->Sound Enhancer not only can you change the profile; There are 3, Beats urBeats, Beats Solo, and Other. You can also change the eq from beats to a couple other traditional settings. And no they don't have any custom settings they're all preset. Using a pair of V Moda M80's other was the best profile and depending on what you're listening to you can switch between the different eq settings. Everyone can find what sounds best for them and their setup.
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Can you use volume+ app with beats to increase volume output through speakers,headset,Bluetooth without altering beats sound?
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Does that Beats Audio thingymajig only work when something is plugged into the 3.5mm jack? Is there any way to make it work with a wireless (Bluetooth) headset?
I don't own one yet so I kind of wanted to know
Is Beats even that big of a deal or just a glorified equalizer?
Beats Audio does work with Bluetooth, sounds great with both of my Motorola stereo headsets.
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Yes it works, but I disable it.
Kujila said:
Does that Beats Audio thingymajig only work when something is plugged into the 3.5mm jack? Is there any way to make it work with a wireless (Bluetooth) headset?
I don't own one yet so I kind of wanted to know
Is Beats even that big of a deal or just a glorified equalizer?
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Nail.Head. It is just an equalizer. It works well with my earphones, but over my car stereo it adds too much bass. When Beats is selected under Sound, Sound Enhancer, then the Beats mode will apply almost any time audio is playing on your phone, whether it be through Bluetooth, plugged in headsets, or the phones speaker. A Beats icon will display at the top. I did notice that this wasn't the case using the FM Radio app. So to answer your question, it does work through Bluetooth, and is just an equalizer.
It doesn't work with the speaker on the phone... Or at least mine doesn't.
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It doesn't work with the speaker on the phone... Or at least mine doesn't.
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That's strange. Mine does bring up the Beats icon in the drop down bar when playing through the speakers. Not that Beats is going to make any difference to sound quality through the micro speaker on the back. I'm just running the stock rom (for now). Not sure why mine is different than yours.
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Does that Beats Audio thingymajig only work when something is plugged into the 3.5mm jack? Is there any way to make it work with a wireless (Bluetooth) headset?
I don't own one yet so I kind of wanted to know
Is Beats even that big of a deal or just a glorified equalizer?
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pretty much. I use volume+
I bought Beats Wireless, Beats Audio doesn't work
Okay, so everyone in this thread are saying that beats audio works with bluetooth paired headphones and speaker. Well I tried to use my Wireless Beats on my Htc Sensation XE and Beats Audio does not activate itself, unless I use the jack. I really want to use the Beats Audio while using the headphones wireless. Help?
Check your sound settings. Beats if enabled, will fire up as soon as a BT audio device or headphones is connected.
If that doesnt work still, depending on ROM if not stock, start there for support. There are also mods available for sound settings that bypass Beats and have customized EQ profiles. I have used volume + sucessfully and to me, Beats works best in my car but for studio or serious monitoring work I use custom profiles.
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Also, this forum is specific to EVO LTE, you might have bette luck in your models specific forum.
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