[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] PresidentMAD:
Hello XDA Forum experts,

i was originally going to post this in the official Samsung forums, to reach the support there, but they require a Samsung account for that, which i refuse to create.

That's why i am reaching out to you, since i belive XDA has the best expertise outside of brand manufacturer, and i might be able to get answers the same or above the quality, the Samsung support might be able to offer.

I am new to the whole Samsung story. I used Motorola and Sony in the past, but i cannot buy from them anymore.

I absolutely require large storage.

Sony has sd cards which i an very fond of, but with them breaking their devices after a few updates, and the latest Xperia V series, coming with ghost touch issues right out of the box, i don't see me enjoying their devices.

Motorola removed the sd cards, with the largest storage option being 512gb, and only 256gb available in my country, i sadly have to leave them too.

I looked around, the only devices that feature sd cards are midrange and budget devices, but they lack good build quality and powerful hardware.

So i arrived at Samsung, who are claiming to be premium and they offer 1tb.

I have about 300gb of mp3 music, which i cannot live without and i need to have them always with me.

With the downsides of cloud storage and streaming, and a very unstable internet in my country, locally stored files are the way to go.

My device is one week old, and i can absolutely rule out the possibility, that a stuck button or third party app is causing my problem. The Bluetooth speakers and headphones are not the cause either, because they worked great with past devices and continue to do so, connected to non Samsung devices.

That's why i belive its the s23 software.

I am using poweramp as my music player, but this happens in YouTube app for example too.

Sennheiser mtw3 and bose speaker is the output device.

but the volume issue can be heard with the phone speaker as well.

on some specific parts of the track, that can be reliably reproduced, the volume momentarily lowers itself, then recovers a few moments later.

the volume slider from Android and poweramp do not move during these occurrences.

for example in this ambient music track, which i have as mp3, this phenomena can be heard, both from the mp3 and the YouTube video.

other devices don't do this, with the same file, music player and output devices

that's an ambient track that features rainfall and lightning.

on every large intense lighting strike, the volume lowers momentarily.

it feels like the phone is trying to protect the listener from sudden loud noises, which i like, but the detection seems to be flawed, because the lightning strikes do not become that loud.

on other occasions this, let's call it feature, works as intended.

for example on YouTube videos with the topic scambaiting, when the scammer gets enraged and starts screaming, the volume again lowers itself for the whole duration of the rant, which results in a pleasant listening experience.

i did some research into this and indeed found some ancient threads over the internet, but no conclusive explanation or solutions.

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i tried enabling/disabling the volume monitor in digital wellbeing

enabling/disabling the dolby atmos options of the s23

checking the poweramp music settings

but without success, this loud noise protection is always on.

so my question is:

does anyone else can confirm this behavior on their s23?

can somebody offer a explanation why this happens?

is there somewhere a switch hidden to turn it on and off?

then i manually turn it off for poweramp sessions and on for Youtube sessions.

it is quite a nice phone, but when it messes with my music experience, i take issue.

i spend 2 month worth of salary in this, and i can't enjoy my ambient tracks. amazing.

many thanks for taking the time to reading my sermon, and many thanks in advance if someone can offer an explanation or solution