The Best Sounding Smartphone 

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*face palm*

FIRE

sam farley Oh Snap!

shots fired

***** oh you did lol

Yeah... And its kinda lame for that guy.

+Tx3089 Gaming Because it is ! Most ofhis videos are commercials of certain types of products. DISLIKE !

+Tx3089 Gaming do you make this same comment on every positive review you find?

+Tx3089 Gaming well, that's all this was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ an "ears on" first impression video, and the Axon has mad audio hardware, so it did better than others. I see where you're coming from, but like.. meh. I don't see why people are this angry.

+styx85 This is the truth right here.

+styx85 I think you're mistaken. I love headphones and have 9 different sets to listen to. I can tell immediately when one set up sounds better than another and why. I think that optimizing the eq and then comparing them also is incorrect. I want to know how they sound straight out of the box. Adjusting the eq to each persons personal tastes can be done later, because that is the most subjective part. I found this review helpful because I could tell his knowledge about sound quality by the way he described things. I think he gets it well enough to be able to tell if one thing meets the standards for "sounding better" The second thing that tells you if this review is worth paying attention to or not is his genuine, visceral reaction to the music. On all the other phones he was 'listening' to the music on the Axon he seemed to be 'feeling ' the music. That kind of response is very hard to fake. I think it's a good review, I had already suspected the Axon was going to have good sq based off of the technical specs, having seen this review it feels like it confirmed my suspicions.

m. west Who said anything about EQ? I'm just talking about level matching (ie. sound volume). It's very easy to mistake a couple of dBs of higher volume for higher quality (and more "feeling"). And I'm not saying he's "faking it" it or lying, I'm just saying that people's subjective perception of sound and music is notoriously unreliable and subject to *many* different kinds of bias. It's a very well documented phenomenon. As an example, the fact that you've read the spec sheet and expect the Axon to have good sound quality might subjectively make them "sound" better to you, even if there is no actual discernible difference. Blind listening on a volume-matched setup is the best way to neutralize these biases and give a much more accurate assessment.

That is true

That's correct. This is what I do for a living. I compare SQ of different components on a daily basis. At the very least you need to level match everything. Its very hard to listen around different volume levels. You also have to do some real listening. To think you can quickly listen to each one for a few seconds and know how it sounds, is just plain silly.

S7 has the best sound quality, with the HTC coming in second.

The iPhone 7 would be a bit problematic...

The v20 should technically win it has a quad sabre dac from ess

Don't forget Sony

i second sony.

Rene Bernardino OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGET REKT

Stfu

Clever wp

Rene Bernardino Get Adblock?

Connor Werts the point of his comment was to highlight that the actual video is a commercial

DM yes

That's is a REALLY good idea! Would have been more interesting too!

DM Exactly. This is very biased test.

I'm about to slide into you

He should've

Why would they be on

it shoud be off for comparison -_-

Unbox Therapy I remember installing a rom on my HTC One M8 with some sort of dolby digital driver being the best experience of sound from a smartphone ever.

Unbox Therapy has the macbook winner been announced ?

Loved the video and BTW that shirt looks good on you.

Unbox Therapy I think the alcatel idol 3 is best sounding

Nice video, I wouldn't have thought that they would have been able to make such an improvement over such high end competitors.

Erik Michel Looks cheap asf with all that plastic as well.

Not really, its kinda simmiler to the M8

Erik Michel yeah it looks like a smartphone from the pre-iPhone era

Chris McLeod that's your opinion

wolfstar its metal not plastic

Anonymous Well played.

Unbox Therapy rip sony ?

Unbox Therapy alcatel one touch idol 3 is the best sounding phone out there.

Anonymous Take the day off man, you just won internet of the day.

Anonymous Axon, Dendron.

LOL!!!!

MrAlexanderHwang ComedyShortsGamer?

Alwhalid'z16 Ha! Wait... maybe he is asian...

Yeah he should've compared them in a blind type of test.

That's what I thought

breezyashell or recording and looking at the sound with a software.

More like he got paid off by axon

***** what a virgin.

go away iSheep

Orbital but it's true tho it does feel like a sponsored video

How does that make him an iSheep?

Orbital there are 4 other phones in the video, why on earth would you call him an iphone fanboy ?

I agree. This vid is clearly emphasized on the zte phone. Unsubscribed.

Lol, there are plenty of unboxing videos on the Axon. What's the difference between this phones packaging and an iPhone, a Galaxy S or a Moto X?

Tristan Hoekstra None with the quality of Mr. Unbox Therapy

Tristan Hoekstra A hole in the top of the box to show off the two cameras?

Liam Davy Hopefully the September 2 IFA press release will introduce something with a Snapdragon 820 and a new design. The leaks images looks really good.

Hi-res rigth!

Arbi Daci thats what i got (moving from an s4) and the quality is just mind blowing!!!

Arbi Daci I view this video finding to see my Xperia Z3 compared

Arbi Daci yeah, Xperia has the best EQ settings no doubt, clear bass is just fucking awesome!

munroe R and there is the Marshall London

harold lau what???

munroe R new smartphone by Marshall, focused on audiophiles

Aditya Parama Hadi ahhhh thx!

A z4 is a car isn't it?

***** The DAC is EXACTLY the same in all the phones he presented. One thing I have heard about the axon though is the abysmal battery life and not so great graphics. Lou should feel free to make sponsored vids but I would atleast like to be notified first, this is a commercial just as his promoting of beats is (which are definitely NOT the best headphones around, sennheiser and bose to name a couple are much better both headset wise and earphone/in-ear wise than beats overpriced crap). Thanks for the video anyway lou, I appreciate your hard work, and I'm happy you're as successful as you are, would just appreciate a little more transparency.

Corinn Heathers +bendybow Keep in mind, the S6 using Wolfson WM1840 dac

***** that is a bot he never uses beats and the link is probably a virus to get your information lou never does a give away in the comments and come on beats is a fucking joke I know some one who disagrees with that but he says that is my taste. I think you should look further than your taste but I think he never used another headphone. he also says that beats is the best because alot of dj's use them.

***** Isn't only the Exnyos version? Or did Samsung quit using different chips in the NA and International versions?

Corinn Heathers​ Newest Samsung 2015 flagship now using exynos for all region.

Agreed

Agreed

agreed

No.

Nasser Ali lmao, fuck off.

Nasser Ali good one ! HAHAHA

Funniest thing ever when people get pissed off at people having an opinion.

Nasser Ali None are the best, phones are completely and utterly subjective. I don't understand how people have such strong feelings over what is 'the best'.

SimmonSays the s6 sucked because it uses qualcomms crappy dac builtin to the soc.

axon 7 mini?

Dino Barberino wich was is the best in audio quality ,this phone's dac or Fiio E10k ? please answer

***** Shit, forgot I was submitting my thesis to my english prof dewddddd, got tired of correcting autocorrect so I gave up and left it. Thoughhhh I could make the argument of it being a part of awkward plurals and abbreviations which makes the apostrophe useable for more than possession. For example "She used 6 and's in her sentence". That stays true with weird abbreviations, normally those with numbers AND letters. But I could make the argument. REKT! Kappa123

Younes Berrada most likely the Fiio E10k purely because it would have way more leg room to fit all which is needed and free from the electrical distortion and noise the internals a phone may produce (Processor, RF interference, etc).

Dino Barberino thx

I don't think it was available in the US for import at this point

Walkman > All

Clark Kent ikr

+Luis Antonio Santiago Walkman has a plastic screen like a phone from 5 years ago.

Wavestrike Electronics​ yes I know but the sound quality is what we compare here, not the physical appearance...

Luis Antonio Santiago Onkyo DP-X1 would be a good one to compare a decent DAC if just for the sound.

Norberto Castro Hey, I also recently got my new smartphone (Z3), and what is making me sad is that I don't get the Hi-Res option anywhere in the options, even though I have the right headphones. Is it because of the newest update? That my walkman icon is gone and now it just says Music? Please help someone, I also want to hear that Hi-Res quality you guys are talking about!

rannopleisss All you need is the right hi res audio file and you´re good to go ( and a very good pair of headphones) if you just want to enjoy your mp3 files then use the DSEE HX option and you´ll hear the diference.

rannopleisss get the HTC 10. It has a High-Res audio built in

The ZTE Axon 7 is equal to the audio on the htc 10

does it have dolby ?

Htc m9 have same audio with front facing stereo speakers.

do a blindfold test.

The ZTE has a 32bit dac and there is two dacs which is the same as the ZTE Axon 7 and that has better output than the other phones on his video.

Alvin Zahran Majid he probably used what he had at the time and might not have had a xperia phone

john li i hope so

Except the HTC One M9 ofc

+Sly Cooper can't comment on that but I don't believe it is superior to sony's high res smartphone. I am an audiophile and I have compared a bunch of phones and the Z5 sticks out! actually, for a phone it is very pleasing!

+Chris Conrad HTC has always had the best speakers with their dual front facing Boom sound speakers with Dolby audio. trust me, its the best 😊

+Sly Cooper who gives a crap about speakers apart from 16 years Olds? I am talking about the performance with 300,- headphones and lossless audiophiles. The Z5 is state of the art worth the audio processing.

+Chris Conrad Better than Dolby digital surround sound? I was under the impression Dolby is best in the business, better than even Sony

shadowlago95 best sounding smartphone out of the smartphones he tried

shadowlago95 a snobby audiophile spotted!

+gigglemybox boom! Thank you guy.

+shadowlago95 Do you think you're better than the rest of society?

+shadowlago95 You just put those 2 words in the same sentence. Sincerely, Mr. technicality.

HTC all the way

yeah LG team here! wohaa

+Rudo Douglas LG? II'm kinda suffering the lack of EQ in LG G3...

Gebruikersnaam10011 Hey, I also recently got my new smartphone (Z3), and what is making me sad is that I don't get the Hi-Res option anywhere in the options, even though I have the right headphones. Is it because of the newest update? That my walkman icon is gone and now it just says Music? Please help someone, I also want to hear that Hi-Res quality you guys are talking about!

They actually removed it with the lollipop update.. :(

What the hell?

Sony is shit its hardly to find Sony phone with good speakers

Sony only put Qualcomm integrated DAC for their phone since Z5, but they still offer Bluetooth LDAC in the flagship.

LG V30 with their Hi-Fi Quad DAC gives superior sound to any phone out there and they know it since they actually include half decent B&O in-ear headphones with the phone and not the complete garbage you usually get and have B&O branding on the phone itself. Sony has been pretty average imo though I haven't had a possibility to test their latest generation of phones.

I bought a Sony Xperia M4 aqua for the "walkman" bit of it but I can say that it's nothing but a gimmick. The only sound aspect of it is that it digitally enhances the bass frequencies which can be easily done by any third part app these days. The hardware is weak at best.

Sony's headphone output has been pretty average like you say, so no reason to include them if you are going for top of the line. The LG V30? Definitely excellent, and gets a nod for being the loudest. However, for audio quality through a passive 3.5 jack, that record is still held by the now-discontinued HTC M8. If you are going to go beyond the 3.5 jack and into active headphones, then USonic is a total mind blower. I've been a studio engineer for years, and HTC USonic is the only thing that comes close to what the musicians and producers hear in the studio control room.

+jamen brooks sad tbh. ZTE is the 4th largest smartphone market in the US. but still not well known.

+ＧＯＤ 死 死 They are very popular here in the west but their popularity is not comparable to the gigantic smartphone producer samsung is

In north America its "zee". it doesn't matter anyway. Its the same thing in the end.

Nick Uchiha it the philippines, it's Zay...like Gay

So when you were learning A B C D.... In childhood you used to end that like X Y zee not zed?

+Maitreya M (MM360X) yes. That's how we are taught to pronounce it.

Style

Style/Pure all the fucking way!!!!!!!

anagha shinde style all the way

It totally depends on what you are looking for. If you want a phone with a great looking screen, and is splash and dust resistant buy the moto x style If you want a phone with a aluminium body and has great specs buy the oneplus 2 The cameras are both great but on the moto you can get more detail then the oneplus. Hope i helped :-)

Dragon of magic wtf? Specs on the pure is beast, almost as much as the s6!

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+1sonyzz REPORTED

Scott Williams It's not there because it sucks like all sonys products.

I cringed even more at your superiority complex.

jsong21 You sir, are the poster-child for the snobbery audio-file community.

jsong21 if they build the correct instruction sets into the processor it should handle it just fine

jsong21 But what do you recomend? as portable music player.

Du sköna nya värld Astell&Kern AK2400. If you can't get one of those due to price, just get a ipod. But most important part about getting the best possible audio quality is source. People always seem to gimp out on the source by using mp3 or streaming. And if that's the case, it's really not worth upgrading any kind of audio hardware.