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[Galaxy S III General] TYA.:
Not all devices with 4.2 got 48khz sampling rate.

I install Neutron on S4 (4.2) it shows 48khz but do the same for S3(4.2),it shows 44.1khz.

I think hw related

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Inear : Neutronmp or Deadbeef or Vlc

Headphone : Denon audio app .

Take a try Denon audio , it is best for headphones maniacs !

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[Galaxy S III General] Beast7:
I just got an International S3 (i9300), the sound quality is not accurate. I don't know if it's an issue of the OS as the S3 measures well. For reference my $30 Sansa Clip+ has better sound. This is not expectation bias or placebo, I did some A/B tests and I measured the S3 (loaded and direct) and found no major issues using RMAA.

My problem with the S3 is that music sounds like there is less bass and more treble compared to the Clip+, the headphones I used for the listening test was Sony MDR-V6 and Etymotic ER-4PT.

Something is definitely wrong there. The loaded tests were +- 1dB, so that's not a major concern there, the unloaded tests were ruler flat.

I shall fiddle more with it when I get more time, I listened to music using the stock music player and the RMAA tests was done using Voodoo's RMAA app.

Sorry for the rant.
[Galaxy S III General] Agaranda:
Sansa clip has very good sound quality despite its price. IMO the only way to improve S3 SQ is by installing a kernel like Boeffla and using a player like Neutron or Gonemad.

I9300XXEMF6, Boeffla 3.1, Earsonics SM3v2
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
My problem with the S3 is that music sounds like there is less bass and more treble

There are many sound mods that claim to give more bass .

Not that i have tried them with bass as i prefer a sound that has not been distorted .

The Viper4Android app and its IRS sound files is in my view the best that has been seen so far . But again if you wanted loaded bass you will need to test yourself .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
[Galaxy S III General] Beast7:
Thanks for the responses

Yes, Sansa Clip+ has very good accurate sound quality (with Rockbox). I can understand how a kernel will make a difference by way of tuning, but I still can't understand how a music player will make a difference. I'm not really an audiophile, just a perfectionist that wants accurate sound quality.

I don't want powerful bass, like I said earlier, I just want accurate/flat/neutral sound quality. But it's really puzzling how the S3 is sounding like that, maybe it could be the stock music player at fault too as the Voodoo RMAA app produced a perfect frequency response result into my soundcard, I really need to spend more time researching and tweaking it.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewhahalee:
Hi,

Does anyone know of a workaround or an app that is able to tweak microphone gain settings?

I'm getting distorted audio from my video recordings.

I'm running CM10.1 RC2 btw, anyone else here running AOSP ROMs who have the same problem?
[Galaxy S III General] SectorAndroidRD:
Try to use the app named "Microphone" of the dev named Wonder G. from the Play Store, it improves significantly. If that distorted audio is from the phone itself try tweaking the settings on the DSP Manager, that could help you sort that out.
[Galaxy S III General] ianarellano:
does anyone know how can i make viper4android work for poweramp. thanks!:o
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
As per the thread turn off DVC in audio settings .

Works 100% for me .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] canicula:
Does anybody know how to make viper4android work with Neutron and USB Analog audio?

On viper4android there are only 3 options :headphone, speaker and bluetooth.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] tolis626:
Did anyone mention it's available?No.Why should it work?I don't know.Patience is a virtue young padawan...
[Galaxy S III General] ma10:
I'm definitely using a USB otg cable. :)

Unfortunately I'm out at the moment so can't record a video. However, even when I plug the dac in, the only visual indication you get is the "USB connected" notification and if you're already playing music it will automatically mute on the sgs3 and play via the dac.
[Galaxy S III General] Erahgon:
Supercurio needs to release a Voodoo Sound patch for the kernel and then the Voodoo sound application will work with it.

Can't wait to hear more about this!

@ma10: That's great news! As NZTech said, could you please post details your setup? It would be educational for all of us! Thanks for reporting!
[Galaxy S III General] juDGEY2k10:
Reason i said wot i said is cos i read this in this post
[Galaxy S III General] varunkumars:
That's nice. Try to upload some pics first if possible and a video later. Please post pics of all the cables you use, that will help us a lot.
[Galaxy S III General] WhiteHartMart:
Only had some brief testing with my new S3 and then only with some Soundmagic E10s but after using a One X and Galaxy Nexus recently this already sounds in a different league to my ears.

There seems better separation and vocals just sound so much more open and believable.

Looking forward to some more listening now :)

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
It is not yet supported, capable, but not supported. Give him a chance guys!

Oh, and someone mentioned at Head-Fi about the E17 maybe still needing an externally powered USB hub in order to work - got my hopes up there, but it definitely doesn't work with an externally powered hub - just tried. It funks up playback though, stock player progress bar shows ~2x playback speed and PowerAMP skips 40s every couple of seconds, so it is definitely interfacing with the phone (after a fashion). Really need to try an E7 or similar driver-less solution.
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
This might be a stupid question, but to those of you connecting their USB Dacs to your phones: Have you enabled Audio Output Mode under Settings -> Dock?
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
Yep.
[Galaxy S III General] azuresystem:
sweet ;) this is the one reason to upgrade from S1 tbh, the sound is great already on stock but as usual its too low for my tastes ;P hope you can work some magic on that part curio! cant wait to see what magic you cook up for us!

best of luck!

//azure
[Galaxy S III General] Kendoji:
Oh my goodness, in that case this is awesome news!
[Galaxy S III General] NaabKing:
I dont quite understand it, i googled what's USB OTG and it's USB On The Go, i see that's an adapter from MicroSD to normal USB, so what are you guys talking about, what does that have to do with sound? :)
[Galaxy S III General] ekjl:
I think when you use a USB adapter with the SGS3 to a capable sound system, you get better and crisper sound quality. I think the SGS2 didn't have this capability.

I'm not too clear, can someone elaborate more on this and what DAC is?
[Galaxy S III General] Kendoji:
This discussion won't make any sense unless you know exactly what a USB DAC is, and the reasons some of us are desperate to attach one to our phones. Admittedly, very few people in this world know about USB DACs - but the good news is that there are some excellent explanations earlier in this very thread.

Generally speaking, if you need to ask, it's probably not interesting or relevant for you. :)
[Galaxy S III General] BladeZero:
Lol yeah, there is a very good explanation in this thread, I was one who asked and I love the feature except I have never seen a USB dac in SA but I am moving to a bigger sound company that might use them for there big events at our soccer stadiums.

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[Galaxy S III General] OrrPenn18:
As we speak ... supercurio is already working his magic for S3 :D
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
Supercurio has completed his initial Voodoo Sound port :)

He is going to have a wee rest and some food and then push it to the Play Store.
[Galaxy S III General] ma10:
Youtube video

Sorry for being so late but last day or two has been manic!! Here's a really crappy video I posted on Youtube:

http://youtu.be/jR6Vc28NEcc
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
Thanks for sharing !:)
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
Nice, thanks. Too bad this is only DAC confirmed working so far - few other reports of failures at Head-Fi in addition to my E17. Will be a bit of trial and error till we see how widespread support it, suspect only UAC1 devices with their own power supply will work.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Ask in the V4A thread .
[Galaxy S III General] TYA.:
Internal processing neutronmp is 64bit. Output is limited by android core, is 16 bit.

On galaxy s4, neutronmp output 16bit 48khz (while on other sams device is 44khz). Samsung does something to s4 android 4.2

Galaxy s3 4.2 is just 44khz.

To get 24/192 ouput, neutron is Not enough

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Boefla kernel. Perseus , Wanam, Siyah....are some ker help you with sound :

(Boeflla app or stweak app is required depends on cases)

1. Dacdirect : brings more clairity sound cause it reduce abit of mid image. If switch off (no use, native, u feel a darker mid). Required good pairs of hp, ofcouse.

(On a S3 i9300 it is easier to found than the Note2. Using note2 now :(

This plus 3dB to the stereo crosstalk (measured).

2. Dac oversampling. Brings more details overall . But no meaning if wav or flac 16bit 44khz . Can feel only with hi res track

3. Fll tune : even on or off , I dont feel it, no probs with sound

4. Stereo xpand : reduce bass impact , reduce stereo crosstalk (measured) but actual u may feel more " stereo" . It add echo&reverb so mid image is very smooth, coloured.

(Im sure this is the reason for most people said ahhhh gooooodddd sound :D)

Recommend : choose off or if u On, set to 1 only (31 levels)

5. Eq. This is depend on personal habit and players.

Ex : Vlc is no EQ

Neutron has para eq (si neutron doesnt need)

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[Galaxy S III General] Orel1996:
Hey man, thanks for the reply :) I'll be sure to check some of these out when I root my phone.

By the way, I took back me saying the SQ isn't that good. It's just that my PX200-II's connector isn't very good and apparently is a very bad match with my S3, other headphones sound pretty good :)
[Galaxy S III General] bigr1979:
Hi all... I have just decided to buy some Sennheiser Momentum on ears, mostly for listening to music on my s3. I am very happy with the headphones and have been using them on my phone with my current rom temasek CM10.2 + temasek Boeffla kernel. I have noticed that sometimes the sound isn't quite as full as I would like on the phone, I plugged the phones into my denon 5.1 amp and the sound seems better, more filled out...

Has anyone any tips for me improving the sound, i gather a touchwiz rom wouldnt make any difference ? Do these headphones need more power perhaps ? Would they benefit from an external headphone amp ?

Any feedback would be appreciated, I just want to get the sound as good as I can really ;)

(I have turned off Stereo expansion, i had that set to 8 before, its seems to have helped matters with it off)

(also I have headphone vol on 57, over satuation supress, equaliser 1 0 0 0 1 - bass tun freq ticked, dac direct, dac oversamplng and fll tuning ticked)
[Galaxy S III General] Usexy:
In my amatuer and humble opinion I find that saturation suppression tends to take a lot of fullness out of the sound that I get using Bower and Wilkins P3's and the set-up in my sig' for the s3,

I also have headphone amp cranked all the way up and the media volume lower on the device - I think it sounds better this way.

Having said that it could be all in my head :P give it a try and don't forget to turn the media volume down to avoid damage to your ears or headphones! :D
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files

http://www.audiocheck.net/soundtests_headphones.php
[Galaxy S III General] TYA.:
Any one tested or compare the sq between G2 and Note2?

Which is better if G2 and Note2 using VLC to play 129/24 tracks to feed a good hp?

No sound tweaks.

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[Galaxy S III General] ManuLM:
cool article on Anandtech today on phones output quality

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7567/smartphone-audio-quality-testing
[Galaxy S III General] arj8:
viperaudio

Got the best audio clarity and bass for amsung galaxy s3 i9300 with viperaudio 4 android.

It works best with cyanogenmod 10.2 with stock kernel. Cant get the same bass quality with sammy roms.

my combination for best sound quality

cm10.2+purexaudio lite universal+dts+viperaudio(convolver=dolby pro logic II).

music player-apollo player

i have tired many mods. but these combination is the best in my opinion.:good:
[Galaxy S III General] KelebroBess:
Privacy mode

Good day!

Can anyone tell me how to turn on privacy sound mode without flashing kernel ?

Is it possible?
[Galaxy S III General] antimo84c:
Hi. I am going to flash hypermax v2 ROM 4.4 based on archiport ROM preview 3 4.4 stock Samsung port from note 2.

There is a way to boost my sound and Music without change ketnel?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] knreddy:
Thank you, you saved my phone Samsung Galaxy A3 ( A300H ). It was having high Stereo Cross Talk, but after reading your post, same middle option (#1) I have selected at Neutron Music Player>settings>Cross Feed> .

And 2nd preset of equalizer was selected at Neutron Music Player>settings>equalizer presets> preset#2

Further I have reduced low band cutoff ( default) from 100Hz to 10 Hz at Neutron Music Player>settings>equalizer> low band ... to avoid poor bass.

Now it is at least approaching the unbelievable audio quality of Nokia E52 .

(Samsung A3 Built in DAC 's native sampling frequency is 48KHz checked with Neutron MP )
[Galaxy S III General] Warren_Orange:
So I was thinking of buying this Phone for the Wolfson DAC but it looks like Voodoo Sound never materialised for it.

So does this Boeffla kernel make the S3 sound as good as my Nexus S with Voodoo Sound?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Minto107:
Boeffla sound is great! But I don't know Voodoo sound :P
[Galaxy S III General] hinuk:
I would say yes as my old i9300 gs3 (boeffla) did have almost as good sound quality as my old i9000 gs1 had vith voodoo sound.

Lähetetty minun SM-G900F laitteesta Tapatalkilla
[Galaxy S III General] elfary:
Did Supercurio ever released Voodoo?
[Galaxy S III General] Warren_Orange:
So I bought this phone off ebay today and I will try Boeffla kernel soon. I'm interested to know how it sounds against the Nexus S voodoo sound.

elfary - I don't think Voodoo sound ever materialised for the S3.
[Galaxy S III General] xexux:
Please share your experience. Did it sound better than Nexus S+Voodoo?
[Galaxy S III General] Warren_Orange:
No.

It just didn't have the richness of the nexus s. It also sounded a little hard, like there was a little compression happening somewhere.

The Nexus S was enjoyable to listen to. Sadly the S3 wasn't.
[Galaxy S III General] xexux:
I bought HTC m8 and its sound quality via headphones sucks ba--s compared to Nexus S i had. Guess, i should buy another Nexus S or may be Galaxy S i9000? What do you think? I was kinda bummed that Nexus S storage is non-expandable and that its dev almost stopped until just recently when Marshmallow custom rom popped up which is pretty un-useable from what i have heard, so if i want good dev support plus goodies that came with nexus S in sound department, Galaxy S should do just fine, shouldn't it?
[Galaxy S III General] Warren_Orange:
Hi.

I've done the same. I bought a galaxy s and put a 128gb micro SD card in it. If you format the card to fat32 the galaxy s will take it. When the 200gb card drops below £100 I think I will buy it and put my flacs on it.

You'll be able to pick up a galaxy s for next to nothing. Just put cm11 on it and your rocking. It comes with voodoo built in. I also bought neutron player which makes a nice small improvement to the SQ.

Yes it sucks that the Nexus S only has 16gb.
[Galaxy S III General] xexux:
Amazing how everyone else just keeps going orgasmic about sound quality of the modern handsets when in fact they are still playing catch up to standards set by Wolfson DAC+Voodoo mod. I just literally wasted 300 dollars for HTC m8, as i was impressed by the reviews on internet about its audio quality. It simply doesn't have a dedicated DAC to take care of clarity/noise as its utilizing Snapdragon built in DAC! The built in will always sound poor than a dedicated one. Guess, i should have remembered that :(
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
The M8 has 24-bit 192khz support
[Galaxy S III General] spol:
What's a good ROM as a daily driver with good audio quality?
[Galaxy S III General] xexux:
Hey, sorry for bumping this up, but i was wondering if you had find anything better along the way?

Or, is it still Galaxy S i9000+Voodoo? Also, I have yet to try i9000 with Voodoo. Wasn't Voodoo primarily designed for Nexus S? I know they have same DAC, but sometimes manufacturers mess up with their implementation. I mean, how exactly would you compare their sound characteristics? Is the sound characteristics of Galaxy S an exact replica of Nexus S? If it makes any sense, i am willing to let go of SD card as a requirement for an iota better sound quality.
[Galaxy S III General] Warren_Orange:
Hi.

Yes I've moved on from the Voodoo i9000. Any android device with a sdcard and otg support plus a Dragonfly DAC is the way to go.

Musical bliss especially with FLAC.

About the NS and S1 I would say the NS edged it but it might just be placebo on my part because the internal DACs inside are exactly the same, hell most of the internals are exactly the same because the NS was a copy of the S1 but tweaked by google for a Nexus release. I would not forgo the sdcard and change to the NS. With both running voodoo you would not hear any difference.
[Galaxy S III General] varunkumars:
Thanks man that really helps. Just wait and see your video makes rounds all around the web. It is already posted in head-fi.

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IS E17 not a UAC1 ? It is powered by battery and doesn't require the phone to power up correct ?

After a little research i see TP30 Class T Digital Mini Amplifier is a USB DAC with 16-bit / 48 kHz decoding function just like E7. There is a chance GSIII supports E7 since it has the same decoding function. E17 has 96K/24bit [USB] decoding function may be the reason why this is not supported. This is just my view i am not an expert in these tech details.
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
It is UAC1, but not working. Seems to be hit n miss with the E17, that's why I've ordered an E7 to check that out with it :)

No surprise the vid is already at Head-Fi, I post there too!
[Galaxy S III General] GalaxyS2R:
The audio on this phone is great, initially I thought I owuld have to be using power amp for my music player and even though i have it installed. That certainly isnt the case, like my one s I can listen to music using the stock player unlike on the Xcrement S (xperia s) and the SGS2.
[Galaxy S III General] dman777:
The music audio should not be compared to galaxy SII. that is a given the SII would be inferior.

I would like to know how it sounds compared to the Samsung Nexus S with the Voodoo kernel patch. That sat the bar/standard.
[Galaxy S III General] blueseeker:
Can someone upload the dmesg command output when the DAC's are inserted ? As I know from S2, Samsung developers put a whitelist in the kernel for the devices accepted so if the device ID isn't on that list, the phone won't accept the USB device. If this is the problem, then it's easy to fix it with a custom kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] deaffob:
Does anyone know if S4 cpu version of the phone will also have wolfson dac? I really don't care about which CPU it has as long as it does have Wolfson DAC.
[Galaxy S III General] astralmind:
100% same here. I know the device isn't available yet but from your experience, could it be?
[Galaxy S III General] blashrrt:
Even if the S4 version does have a wolfson dac theres no guarantee that voodoo sound will work since supercurio tweeted that he's only working on the Exynos version :(
[Galaxy S III General] deaffob:
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[Galaxy S III General] studiominal:
Things could change

I guess supercurio presumes that S4 comes with a different sound codec rather than wolfson 1811. And most importantly, the voodoo sound plus comes as a module so any device with any supported sound codec should taste the voodoo sound as well regardless of whatever AP is :)
[Galaxy S III General] jinx405:
coming from the SGS2, that's exactly what i was initially going to do as well. but when i plugged in my Triplefi earphones to my S3 last night and used the stock player, the music already sounded much better. cant wait to see the magic supercurio does with this baby :)

haha reading this post quickly i thought you said b********rd ;)
[Galaxy S III General] danba:
I second this request.

The dmesg log could detail what is going on.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520508

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/11/23/adb-android-debug-bridge/

Example of a dmesg log, showing a buggy firmware of a TEAC USB DAC:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/96433
[Galaxy S III General] Nitrius:
Noticed right away that the sound on S3 sounded better than on my S2, so am really liking that, but there also seems to be a lot of noise when using headphones, as when i plug in the Samsung headphones that came with the phone you hear the noise kick in when music/sound is playing and 1-2 seconds after you quit the music/sound you hear the noise turning off. Don't notice it a lot while sound/music is playing, only at very silent parts.

The Galaxy S2 is similar, have the same kind of noise, though the noise on S3 is higher than on the S2.

Anyone else noticed this? And can anything been done with it?

Edit: Can this maybe be because of the mic on the Samsung headphones? As i just tried the phone with my Denon AH-D2000 and this "noise" seems to be there with those...
[Galaxy S III General] schrickm5:
Anyone used the apt-x over blue tooth yet, it sounds really good. Very crisp, especially nice with the noise cancellation. Using Nokia Essence.
[Galaxy S III General] :
From @supercurio --

https://twitter.com/supercurio/status/208295718757212160

http://twitpic.com/9reorq

cheers!
[Galaxy S III General] deaffob:
I'm really hoping that S4 CPU version would also have Wolfson DAC and get Voodoo support as well... :O
[Galaxy S III General] ma10:
I just tested one of those cheapo PC usb audio sticks with a c-media chipset and it works fine with the SGS3 too. Here's the dmesg output when I plug it in:

http://pastebin.com/nHmTRUN6
[Galaxy S III General] danba:
Thank you very much!

By the way, do you have a photo or video of your USB sound stick connected to your SGS3 for the lobbying of Android USB audio standardisation (i.e. USB DAC as a standard USB device, like a USB mass storage device, for Android smartphone/tablet)?

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?cursor=android:24614&sort=-stars

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1393599
[Galaxy S III General] BladeZero:
I need to check if the front speaker hardware is still working on my phone, it arrived and when it receives calls the person on the other end can hear me but I can't hear them but when I plug the earphones i can hear them, is there anyway to test the front speaker incase it hardware not software.

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[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
input *#0*# on dialler then do the white screen test/receiver that tests the display on white along with the receiver making a sound.

if you can hear a sound then your unit's earpiece is fine.

btw you obviously have to listen to the sound as if you're talking on the phone since it tests the receiver.