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Shart Carbuncle
Aug 4, 2004

Star Trek:
The Motion Picture
I've been wondering about portable music devices lately. My phone is the Note 4, which has the worst sound I have ever heard out of a device like this. Giving up the convenience of Google Music will suck rear end, though! Even if I got an iPod touch, the iOS google music app bypasses the iOS EQ, and has none of its own, which sucks.

If I'm going to go in, maybe I should go all in and get something that does 24-bit audio, but I'm not sure I want to open that can of worms. Does anyone have experience with sony's cheaper "high resolution" units, like the NWZ-A15?

I should probably just get an iPod nano. I'd be giving up Google music, but at least my mp3s won't sound like garbage anymore.

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Shart Carbuncle
Aug 4, 2004

Star Trek:
The Motion Picture
Those are good thoughts, but I think this particular version of the phone just has a terrible DAC. No amount of EQ seems to help, because it's just missing the upper and lower frequencies altogether, like there's a band pass filter over the whole thing. It does sound better to me over Bluetooth.

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