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Does anyone know to how to make my sound louder on my Samsung s7 edge because I have used the earbuds on my iPhone and they are much louder on the iphone?
I dont use a Samsung phone, but the loudness (and other sound quality issues, good or bad) are a product of the the audio DAC in the phone.
If the same headphones sound louder / better on one phone versus another, thats a phone hardware question.
Outside of checking whether volume limits are active in the audio settings of the phone, there will be nothing you can do, i believe.
Hi,
Sorry, I don't have an answer to the original question yet. However, I just wanted to drop in to clarify some things:
- The E8 has a Bluetooth connection to the source. So, there is no DAC in the signal path, since there is no analogue connection.
- A Bluetooth audio connection (in general - not specifically to the E8) must use a CODEC to get the audio through the connection. Which CODEC is used for a given pair of Transmit & Receive devices (e.g. a phone and a pair of headphones) is determined through a negotiation between the two devices.
- How the transmit device encodes the audio signal into the CODEC (and therefore at what level) is determined by the characteristics of the transmitting device only.
- In the case of a phone sending an audio signal to a pair of headphones through Bluetooth, there may be a couple of different places where the gain of the signal is modified:
So, this means that, in order to compare the audio levels on a pair of E8's when paired to a Samsung vs. an Apple phone, it would be necessary to also know:
Unfortunately, things are mode complex than "the good old days" when we could just measure the voltage on an RCA output of a source to find out what was going on...
Cheers
-geoff