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Sound quality of speakers

My X speakers has slight distortion at maximum volume.
My 7 plus does not have this issue.
Is this normal ?
 
Sound quality (tone) is absolutely improved from my 7. Loudness is incredibly improved. Sounds almost twice as loud. It can probably replace small Bluetooth speakers at this point.
 
QquegChristian said:
Sound quality (tone) is absolutely improved from my 7. Loudness is incredibly improved. Sounds almost twice as loud. It can probably replace small Bluetooth speakers at this point.
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I agree it sounds fuller than my 7 plus but at maximum volume my 7 plus does not distort while the X has crackling sound.

Easy replication of this would be the intro clip from Final Fantasy Awakening at full volume. I have two iPhone X which exhibit this issue.

Please tell me this is normal?
 
NightWingz said:
I agree it sounds fuller than my 7 plus but at maximum volume my 7 plus does not distort while the X has crackling sound.

Easy replication of this would be the intro clip from Final Fantasy Awakening at full volume. I have two iPhone X which exhibit this issue.

Please tell me this is normal?
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Pretty much every iPhone I’ve ever had and many other devices has had moments of crackling at top volume. I’m kind of used to going to top volume, then easing back by one click.

I was actually impressed that I was NOT getting crackle on my X at top volume when playing a rock song. However, I haven’t tested it much because, it’s now too loud at top volume when in front of my face.

Whether it crackles or not would be highly dependent on the recording. If you overload the right frequencies where speakers are weakest, you’ll get crackle. This is why music goes through a stage called “mastering”. It’s to kind of standardize the sound for a wide variety of situations.

I have a $500 Samsung surround system because it’s the only one with wireless back speakers. 95% of the time it sounds great, but when watching Stranger Things season 2, the score was crackling my back speakers like crazy and at a pretty normal volume. That’s because the score was electronic and had a bassy synth in the back speakers that episode. Synths can live in a very narrow range of frequencies too. So there was a high volume of a bassy range of freqs pumping those speakers and it crackled throughout the episode. All 8 other episodes had no issues!

It comes with the territory when you’re dealing with small and/or cheap speakers and/or poor source material.

I made a movie and mixed the sound with very little experience. I had some movie theater speakers lightly crackling at times. That surely wasn’t the major movie theater’s fault.
 
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Compare the speakers on the iPhone X to my Moto X Style and the Style is much better....Kinda disappoint in the sound from the iphone.. Moto X sounds much fuller than Iphone X.
 
QquegChristian said:
Pretty much every iPhone I’ve ever had and many other devices has had moments of crackling at top volume. I’m kind of used to going to top volume, then easing back by one click.

I was actually impressed that I was NOT getting crackle on my X at top volume when playing a rock song. However, I haven’t tested it much because, it’s now too loud at top volume when in front of my face.

Whether it crackles or not would be highly dependent on the recording. If you overload the right frequencies where speakers are weakest, you’ll get crackle. This is why music goes through a stage called “mastering”. It’s to kind of standardize the sound for a wide variety of situations.

I have a $500 Samsung surround system because it’s the only one with wireless back speakers. 95% of the time it sounds great, but when watching Stranger Things season 2, the score was crackling my back speakers like crazy and at a pretty normal volume. That’s because the score was electronic and had a bassy synth in the back speakers that episode. Synths can live in a very narrow range of frequencies too. So there was a high volume of a bassy range of freqs pumping those speakers and it crackled throughout the episode. All 8 other episodes had no issues!

It comes with the territory when you’re dealing with small and/or cheap speakers and/or poor source material.

I made a movie and mixed the sound with very little experience. I had some movie theater speakers lightly crackling at times. That surely wasn’t the major movie theater’s fault.
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Thank you so much for your detailed explanation and sharing of experience, definitely learnt something from this.
 
What I like about the X is that the front speakers sound a lot louder and better than the iPhone 7. I really sounds like true stereo now.

Great speakers with experiences like in the MacBook Pro
 
For me personally speakers on a phone are only good for talking to someone on speakerphone.

I could never listen to music or watch a movie using the speakers on a phone. It can be done sure, but would I want to? No. I could not imagine watching a 4K video using the speakers on the phone. To me thats kind of like buying a Ferrari to sit in traffic all day.
 
bopajuice said:
For me personally speakers on a phone are only good for talking to someone on speakerphone.

I could never listen to music or watch a movie using the speakers on a phone. It can be done sure, but would I want to? No. I could not imagine watching a 4K video using the speakers on the phone. To me thats kind of like buying a Ferrari to sit in traffic all day.
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Have you heard the iPhone X speakers?
 
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