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Simma

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I've got the same problem. it's only audible in certain songs, mainly during parts with lots of bass and with the volume above 75%. no matter if it's flac, mp3, bought from online stores, bandcamp or ripped by myself from vinyl.
it's not happening on an s3 with boeffla sound and my Sansa clip zip with Rockbox.

I'm also getting small sound glitches when adjusting the volume. anyone else?
 
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Duncan1977

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Hmm...

I think I've answered this for BOTH XDA and Head-Fi...

Listening to tracks that are prone to distortion on the M8 on both the N9005 and iPhone 5S (which really do sound quite poor compared to the M8 in terms of dynamics / power!) the same distortions are apparent there too, albeit a lot quieter (due to less volume / headroom) - so, I'm now thinking it could just be that the M8's headphone out is 'that good' that it highlights poorly encoded iTunes+ / self ripped FLAC / .WV files...

I will cross post this to both forums, so that others who hear these distortions can try this out for themselves - to listen very carefully and see if they can hear same anomalies on other players / phones...

So, might just be a case of too much of a good thing (quality / power) is actually a bad thing (and could've obviously affected the M7 too, seeing that HTC implemented the same amp design there too), which means I was deluding myself yesterday saying changing regional settings seemed to lessen the effect - Placebo huh...

Bright side though, other than picking up on poor quality rips / masters, this cements my thoughts that the M8 and Sennheiser IE800 combo is pretty darned great, and highlights that the 5S and N9005 are pretty humdrum sounding :)

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Simma, I will say that I DO have volume control issues, that it doesn't go up / down smoothly (sounds very 'stepped'), which can exaggerate the sound of distortion if you catch it at the wrong time!!
 
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Dsoto87

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daddydark said:
I Can honestly say the m8 is as good or better in battery life. I dont have any data to back it up, but in my everyday heavy to moderate use I can easily go 24 hrs before needing a charge.
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Lol no way. I love the m8 more than any phone I've ever had but the g2 trumps the one in battery life noticeably. I know we all love this phone but let's not let that blind us when giving advice.
 
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The T-Mobile version is missing their headphones again just like last year smh. Anyone willing to part with theirs as I like the stock ones

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
 
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Lol no way. I love the m8 more than any phone I've ever had but the g2 trumps the one in battery life noticeably. I know we all love this phone but let's not let that blind us when giving advice.
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Sorry you disagree friend, But from my usage I can go 24 hours of what i call moderate to heavy use, chromecasting netflix while web surfing browsing and downloading apps and so on and believe me when I say 24 hours.
Everyone uses their device differently so feel free to share your experience. By the way this thread is about audio.
 
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pritamsl

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Hi, I just tried the viper mod to try and get my internal speakers a bit louder. I chose the high quality setting and thought it made the sound worse. It seems that "boomsound" keeps working and interferes with Viper. Anybody know how I should set the settings to get audio that's a bit louder but sounds just as good out of the speakers? Will using Viper result in much worse battery?

Also, I let viper change my LPA settings in the build.prop. Could someone please let me know what the original lpa.decode and tunnel.decode values were? Thank you.
 
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daddydark said:
Sorry you disagree friend, But from my usage I can go 24 hours of what i call moderate to heavy use, chromecasting netflix while web surfing browsing and downloading apps and so on and believe me when I say 24 hours.
Everyone uses their device differently so feel free to share your experience. By the way this thread is about audio.
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I agree too, M8 is actually better, especially in G4. And the audio quality is also much much better on headphones even with the same DAC. Even with the Fiio E11 connected to the G2 M8 sounds better which really surprised me. Wow.

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Duncan1977

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Same old issue...

Okay, so - have been sat here quietly for the past week, working out in my own mind placebo from fact when it comes to the audible distortion, and got it nailed...

The One M8 essentially has the same problem as the Galaxy S4 (and other handsets) - long thread about it here...

Quick fix is a volume attenuator (a crude version would be an inline volume control, just to add resistance - raise volume handset and lower volume control to your own requirements / tolerances) - a more elegant solution would be an inline amp (FIIO E6 for example) - this fixes it perfectly (but means more things to carry around...

I hope this helps someone somewhere :)
 
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I'm not happy with audio output when I use it as an aux in my car! the bass is really high and annoying also the voices are sharp, I don't know why it is like this even thought I used to have One X and it was great especially with the beats On.


Hope there is a way to fix it with new updates, but with the songs seems to be amazing with any headphones or earpads
 
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@home

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I had the note 3 and that had excellent sound quality through the earphones, but the m8 buried it, so much so I've sold the note 3.

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Dsoto87

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wf-17 said:
I'm not happy with audio output when I use it as an aux in my car! the bass is really high and annoying also the voices are sharp, I don't know why it is like this even thought I used to have One X and it was great especially with the beats On.


Hope there is a way to fix it with new updates, but with the songs seems to be amazing with any headphones or earpads
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It's boom sound. When something is plugged into the headphone jack you can disable it in the settings menu
 
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    r.wardell2 said:
    running pandora, audio was clear through the car dock, boomsound EQ overwhelmed my systems bass capabilities with M7 settings on the bose head unit, had to adjust down the bass , if i had a dedicated sub and clipped the low levels to the 6x9's up front i dont think it would have even with max vol. after turning down the base level on the head unit it sounded as good or better than M7, or One-x w/beats EQ. no complaints over all just some re adjusting for the new EQ to match the car.

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    I have only one complaint about the audio output.

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    r.wardell2 said:
    running pandora, audio was clear through the car dock, boomsound EQ overwhelmed my systems bass capabilities with M7 settings on the bose head unit, had to adjust down the bass , if i had a dedicated sub and clipped the low levels to the 6x9's up front i dont think it would have even with max vol. after turning down the base level on the head unit it sounded as good or better than M7, or One-x w/beats EQ. no complaints over all just some re adjusting for the new EQ to match the car.

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    Okay, so - have been sat here quietly for the past week, working out in my own mind placebo from fact when it comes to the audible distortion, and got it nailed...

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