[HTC EVO 3D] finsmaniac02:
I apologize for being long winded with this, but I have been following audio quality throughout many roms for a long time now.

SHORT VERSION: for some reason the included DSP manager does nothing, Volume+ WILL give you bass boost and volume boost, but the equalizer functions do nothing, A little app just called "equalizer" on the market will work for everything. Sometimes it gets kicked out of memory a lot though :-/...

LONG VERSION: Some version of this problem has been happening for a WHILE now. I used to swear by Virus's roms (eternity here on the 3D, but even on the OG Evo). He was one of the first to bring DSP manager in WITH cyanogenMod's audio libs. This brought incredible deep crunchy bass and good clarity everywhere if you used DSP manager to tweak how you like it. Eventually I used Volume+ and even paid for it, its results were the same but I like the app better. I think they use the same methods of EQ where as some other equalizer apps didn't sound as good.

The Beats came around. The first few months of beats roms, and chad's kernel with beats integrated still gave me the same results. I do not use hTC music to play my music so I just don't know if I ever got the "added" beats quality.

I THINK it was around the time that XLOUD came around that things changed. Although other people's roms (XRON, MikMik) seemed to lose the "crunchy bass and clear everything else" before then. But around the time that Virus added XLOUD was the time I noticed this happen. DSP manager and Volume+ now made everything muffled sounding when turning bass boost on. Bass was very loud but lost the crunchiness and was hollow sounding and overwhelming.

--- side note here. I think some people complained about distortion and bad sounding audio right around here too. I will confirm that if you had DSP cranked up too much it would sound bad. I had to keep the "level" (i think it was called) very low when in my car or it would be very distorted. I believe "level" was kind of like an amplification level of the effects DSP was processing. If people didn't know to turn this back then I could understand the complaints... and Maybe this even led to all the audio changes I saw happening from this point on? ---

THEN the next thing I started noticing (pretty recently) was DSP Manager or Volume+ not actually working (one or the other). I would have to go into Titanium Backup and freeze one and try the other. Then sometimes neither would work. Thats when I found this "equalizer" app. Its very simple but seems to work pretty well. I still don't get the sound that I fell in love with before but it sounds pretty good. Just wish it would stay in memory and not get kicked out lol.

Funny Part is... the first release of this rom had the sound quality I was missing... DSP didn't work, but I put Volume+ on and I was VERY happy. I think I even posted about it lol. But here on RC3, back to using "equalizer" and not quite as happy as I could be.

DON"T GET ME WRONG,

FREAKIN BADASS

ROM!!!!!

tl;dr? once again:

SHORT VERSION: for some reason the included DSP manager does nothing, Volume+ WILL give you bass boost and volume boost, but the equalizer functions do nothing, A little app just called "equalizer" on the market will work for everything. Sometimes it gets kicked out of memory a lot though :-/...

THANKS for this AWESOME rom newt!