[Nexus 6  General] pincakez:
I'm a novice sound engineer and i have been learning and reading about audio engineering since last 3 years and now music is my life , i LOVE to listen to the music all the time and I'm tend to hear the best quality i can get..

when i buy a phone the first thing i look for is the sound experience of this phone

i don't usually focus on the speakers , i only focus for the output audio jack

i love android and to be honest i hate iphone or iOS in particular .

I've noticed that Iphone can producer a decent sound quality than the most of android devices ! i was very sad since I've noticed that because i will never own iphone whatever happened

and I've searched online for how to improve my device sound quality and i found a lot of solutions !

the best thing that we all already know is Viper4android , Yes we agree on that

viper can give me A LOT of audio modifications with no doubt and with the best settings you get you Finlay will be happy listening to your music but.. viper can producer an enhanced sound with limits !

th loudness cant be that good .. you increase the Gain and you will hear the distortion in your hear :(

the definition of distortion is simply when you pushing beyond 0db +1db means distortion and you don't wanna hear that

so my target became like that ..

1- get a HIGH and LOUD audio without pushing my audio beyond 0db

2-get a Good audio quality

of course you cant achieve that without having a decent ( earphone - headphones ) and in my opinion try to avoid any unknown brands you can get cheaply in your city market

I'm using my headset Audio-Technica M50x and i love it so much because its a Monitor nit HiFi headset

thats mean its producer a FLAT style audio without any modification at all

HiFi means the opposite

i use a HiFi in my earphones like Skullcandy and sennheiser while I'm out

so this is what Ive tried and what i can recommend for you

Skullcand smokin buds 2 (( cheap + good bass + Loud enough + Normal sound quality ))

Skullcandy 50/50 (( Very good bass + Loud enough + Normal sound quality ))

sennheiser cx200 (( Cheap + Normal loudness + High sound Quality + Perfect bass ))

sennheiser cx300 (( Cheap + Loud enough + Perfect sound quality + Perfect bass ))

and of course th Audio-Technica M50x For the best sound experience i,ve ever had

its VERY LOUD and AWESOME BASS and the sound quality is super but its not very chap

now you've got the right earphone or headset , now this what you should do in my opinion ..

1- install any good kernel you like in your nexus 6 that ca allow you to run a Kernel Adiutor app

2- install Kernel Adiutor from playstore

3- use power AMP as your main music player ( the best music player you can find in android )

WARNING --- you can harm your earphone or your headset if you raised the volume much and you can even hurt your ears so please be careful ---

no you decrees the volume in your device to the half and play the best song you like in power amp and listen to it while you are going to the Sound tap in Kernel Adiutor

and Gently increase the Volume gain .. it will make the sound louder and louder but don't go to the max ... gently increase 1 by one by 1 till you find the perfect sound with no distortion

go to your powerAMP and head to the equalizer and DON'T shape it like a crazy! just make a little changes ( look at the picture ) because PowerAMP will compress your music if you made something crazy like if you increased the 16khz band all to the top

it will give you what you want , a very sharp high ( hats and treble ) but you will loose the mid ( the singer voice for example ) and the Low as well ( bass and bassline )

so take it easy while adjusting these knobs

PowerAMP will give another 2 knobs ( BASS and TREBLE ) yes they are very useful but don't ever get across the 30% to avoid the compressing !

and to make sure that you don't want to ruined your music just enable the Limit button

it will prevent you from crossing the 0db

Now go to the PowerAMP settings-->Audio--->Advanced tweaks menu and make sure they are like this picture

and remember --- your volume was just 50% and you now have amazing loudness

so don't make it higher till you are sure that your headset CAN take more

and please don't harm your ears... :rolleyes:

try to listen to a decent music type like House and Trance so u can experience your headset or earphone

i hope that i helped and Sorry for my very bad English :fingers-crossed: