[Android Software Development] ephexxis:
UAPP is closer in SQ to neutron than power amp is lol. if outputting to an external dac anyways, however recently neutron took the lead in compatibility with actual external dacs which sometimes don't like to play nice with Android.

The knock against the ui is the most common complaint but for what it's worth it has come a long way in the past 6 months even. i personally never understood the hate, what do you have an aversion to menus or something? yes it could be streamlined and the basic UI textures could use an update to something a bit more high res, but it's one of the only players where you can customize nearly every element of the UI even down to the colors used in the spectrum analyzer. you won't be shelling out extra money after buying it for aftermarket skins because there are none. you're fully empowered to make it your own.

The intimidation factor is real, i was overwhelmed myself when i first tried this player and that was back when the parametric eq only had 4 bands (though they were still fully user definable), and there was no phone specific options or anything crazy like 64bit processing. to be honest i had no idea what a parametric eq was before neutron, but i could easily recognize it was better than other eqs simply for the fact that you could input specific frequencies and adjust the bandwidth, making it instantly favorable over the ubiquitous 5 (or at most 10 band which was usually a paid upgrade) band EQ apps available at the time.

yeah, the UI feels unpolished even still today, but it's not the worst UI I've seen and it is FUNCTIONAL, in keeping with the developers day1 commitment to SQ and features that put the rest of android market to shame. Neutron can play friggin DSD files in DSD over PCM mode for Christ's sake. there might be 100 users in the world utilizing that feature but it's there because if it weren't it couldn't really claim to be leading in bringing full professional digital audio capability to android. i dunno i guess since i have no issues getting to where i need to be or accessing the controls i want to access, i don't mind that sometimes it's a pain to have to go two menus deep mid playback cause while im doing it I've got studio quality drum n bass rumbling, rolling and ravaging in the background.

TL;DR: if you aren't long pressing everything in neutron you're doing it wrong

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if my current tweak prop is an indication then yes it should change things to some degree, for better or worse i can't say

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keep in mind the odds defying jump in quality and build fidelity that came with the launch of Exodus 1.0. weird as the direction we are taking may seem at any given time, [MENTION=4445176]guitardedhero[/MENTION] has a destination in mind and a rather remarkable testing process that accounts for the frailty of human psychology in its practice. it's really a huge comfort to me knowing and observing this because with something as subjective as sound quality, it's generally pretty hard to apply any real scientific principals to testing these things, but the results have shown that its been effective so far.

TL;DR you are all being hacked mentally and don't even realize