Poor audio quality through 2.5mm jack?

[Mochan]

I have an Atom Exec and I bought a 2.5mm->3.5mm jack to use it with earphones, speakers and what not as an MP3 player.

After listening I immediatley noted the weak sound volume and generally sloppy sound quality. I had one portable speaker I used to use with iPods and iPaqs and it has no sound volume control setting. I used it with the Atom Exec with the jack and unbeliavably the resultant sound was weaker than the Atom's built in speaker!!!

I then tried it with another 2.5mm jack to see if the jack was causing the poor quality, but had the same results.

So is it true that the Atom's outputs have poor quality?

In the meantime I am using a bluetooth stereo headset, though granted doing this the phone battery doesn't last an hour listening to music. ;)

[alipi2007]

I have an Atom Exec and I bought a 2.5mm->3.5mm jack to use it with earphones, speakers and what not as an MP3 player.

After listening I immediatley noted the weak sound volume and generally sloppy sound quality. I had one portable speaker I used to use with iPods and iPaqs and it has no sound volume control setting. I used it with the Atom Exec with the jack and unbeliavably the resultant sound was weaker than the Atom's built in speaker!!!

I then tried it with another 2.5mm jack to see if the jack was causing the poor quality, but had the same results.

So is it true that the Atom's outputs have poor quality?

In the meantime I am using a bluetooth stereo headset, though granted doing this the phone battery doesn't last an hour listening to music. ;)

did u try after changing equalizer?

[Mochan]

Yup, you can tweak the sound with the equalizer, but it doesn't change the fact that the 2.5mm output is weaksauce in comparison. Is the problem with using a jack? I wish I had a Shure e2c that came in 2.5mm flavor to really test it out.

[abshie]

I have an Atom Exec and I bought a 2.5mm->3.5mm jack to use it with earphones, speakers and what not as an MP3 player.

After listening I immediatley noted the weak sound volume and generally sloppy sound quality. I had one portable speaker I used to use with iPods and iPaqs and it has no sound volume control setting. I used it with the Atom Exec with the jack and unbeliavably the resultant sound was weaker than the Atom's built in speaker!!!

I then tried it with another 2.5mm jack to see if the jack was causing the poor quality, but had the same results.

So is it true that the Atom's outputs have poor quality?

In the meantime I am using a bluetooth stereo headset, though granted doing this the phone battery doesn't last an hour listening to music. ;)

I am using Sony P910 Headset with Atom & the sound quality is much better than the original one supplied with Atom

[Mochan]

Ah, just so you guys know it was just a matter of changing the settings in the Headset Volume Limiter.

My Atom is working perfectly fine as an MP3 player now. :)