Mobile phones play HiFi 2016 mainstream music mobile phone inventory like this
Audio Overview of Mainstream Music Inventory in 2016
In fact, I am very happy to write this inventory, and finally write about the audio, because I not only experienced the mobile phone scheme, but also listened to the eight mainstream HiFi music phones in 2016, and my ears were almost polished into golden ears. However, this issue will not tell you too much about the evaluation of sound quality, but will talk about the HiFi music phones that I think are the mainstream this year by way of comments, and then I will make a report on the HiFi mobile phone market next year.
In this issue of 2016 mainstream music mobile phone inventory, the author follows the following points:
1. Mobile phone brands are familiar to everyone.
2, with independent chip bonus.
In fact, these two points are also the characteristics of a music HiFi mobile phone. Big brands will have good technology research and development. In fact, the most important thing is the use of chips and sound tuning. You must know that some HiFi audio chips are completely customized for mobile phones, which requires the common optimization ability of chip manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers; In addition to the chip, you need a Andhadhun. The author’s understanding of Andhadhun is to use relevant acoustic principles to optimize the chip and mobile phone lines (of course, this needs to be combined with architecture and line analysis) to make the sound more real and natural.
Figure Reference Table of Mobile Phone Release and HiFi Music Mobile Phone Release from 2013 to 2016
In fact, what makes the author very happy this year is that 85 mobile phones are music phones, and the music part was mentioned more or less at the time of release. This year, there are 835 mobile phone models on the market, accounting for 10.2%, which is still an increase compared with last year. In 2015, the number of released mobile phones was 815, of which 45 were music phones, accounting for 5.5%. In 2014, this number was still decreasing, with 900 mobile phones released, including 46 music mobile phones, accounting for 5.1%; In 2013, 863 mobile phones were released, including 28 music phones, accounting for 3.3%.
Figure HiFi music mobile phones accounted for the percentage of all mobile phones sold in that year.
From this point of view, manufacturers are constantly paying attention to the future development of music mobile phones. It is predicted that in 2017, HiFi music mobile phones will become an area that manufacturers will compete for, because there are constantly traditional HiFi chip manufacturers customizing chips for mobile phones. In fact, mobile phones that use HiFi chips alone can also be excavated from music mobile phones. This number is also constantly rising.
Therefore, in view of this inventory of music mobile phones, the author will be divided into two parts.Today, this part is called "Mobile Phone Playing HiFi 2016 Mainstream Music Mobile Phone Inventory", which is to let readers know about the release of music mobile phones from 2013 to 2016 first, and use charts to give readers a clear understanding. After that, I will give readers an inventory of the music mobile phones that I think are excellent this year, and have a simple understanding.
In the second part, I will put some very important parameter tests in the next topic, and I will use this part.Actual parameter sumActual hearing senseGive the reader a clear picture. The test platform will choose RMAA, which takes some time to adjust and prepare, and gives a more comprehensive and objective analysis combined with the sense of hearing.
If you want to be less laborious, you can read this simple inventory and have a general understanding of this year’s HiFi music mobile phone.
HiFi mobile phone pioneer
vivo
A scheme that has been developed for more than two years is used: -Fi3.0 architecture. Dual ES9028, triple OPA1612, and independent decoding and amplification of left and right channels are adopted, with dual clock crystal oscillator and secondary power supply. Compared with the ES9018K2M (signal-to-noise ratio of 127dB, distortion rate of -120dB), which is jointly customized and developed by vivo and ESS, it has been widely used, and adopts QFN packaging method. ES9028Q2M, according to the official introduction of ESS, the signal-to-noise ratio of the chip is as high as 129dB, while the distortion rate is -120dB. The data can be said to be excellent.
Introduction to ESS9028 (fromESSOfficial website)
At the same time, a dual channel is used in the mobile phone, one channel is ESS9028, and then the left and right channels are decoded separately through OPA1612. The advantage of this is that the crosstalk interference can be minimized and the overall parsing ability can be improved.
Interpretation of sound quality chip (picture taken from vivo network)
Summary:
In fact, the most important sound of this mobile phone is the consistent feature of ES9028: outstanding resolution, relatively large thrust of sound in the mobile phone, and general headphones will be full, so there will be no big problems in this respect.
Classical sound first choice
ZTE is the one I like very much, especially the front of the top version. The upper and lower materials of walnut can show a noble workmanship. In fact, the author has already evaluated the sound quality of this mobile phone before, and this time I just want to review it with readers. Of course, we must pay attention to the audio configuration of the mobile phone: AKM4490+AKM4961.
Let’s take a brief look at the chip promotion page of the chip manufacturer
Chip introduction (from ESS official)
AK4490EN is an ideal audio chip for mobile devices. It supports high bit rate input PCM 32BIT/768KHz source output, and also supports high-specification 11.2MHz DSD files.
Chip introduction (from ESS official)
AKM’s advanced DAC chip AK4490EN and top DSP series AK4961. K4961 further integrates ADC into the interior, in other words, it adopts independent ADC+ independent DAC+ independent amplifier, and has high-quality recording and sound playback processing ability in AK4961 chip, which can be applied to computers, mobile phones, voice recorders and other professional tools.
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In fact, the configuration of this mobile phone is also the mainstream flagship configuration: Xing uses a 2K resolution AMOLED screen, equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor, and built-in 4GB/6GB large memory +64GB/128GB storage space combination. It has a front camera with 8 megapixels+a rear camera with 20 megapixels.
Clean and powerful voice control
For Meizu, there is no need to say too much about sound, because the audio is indeed a very experienced manufacturer, and Meizu Music Card is a classic product, which is very good in terms of workmanship and sound. For the flagship, Meizu is also very attentive to the sound quality, first of all, it is the exploration and application of sound quality chips: the CS43L36 decoding and amp integrated chip of CirrusLogic.
Meizu adopts a CS43L36 decoding and amp integrated chip of CirrusLogic, which basically controls the audio parts involved.
Simple chip introduction (picture from CirrusLogic official website)
This chip is an integrated chip of decoding and amp that CirrusLogic specifically solves for mobile solutions. There is very little introduction on the official website, so we can only take the sense of hearing as a reference. Is the sound of the independent chip better or the integrated solution better?
Meizu official website Sound Quality Introduction Interface (Image from Meizu official website)
In terms of configuration, it is also the flagship level: Meizu uses a 5.2-inch 1080p screen with 2.5D cambered Corning Gorilla glass protection, and is equipped with MediaTek’s ten-core Helio X25. The processor adopts a 3-cluster architecture, based on ARM big.LITTLE, with a 20-nanometer process, and the highest frequency is 2.5GHz. Built-in memory combination of 4GB RAM+32GB/64GB ROM can smoothly run Flyme 5.6 based on Android 6.0 system, and has a built-in 2560mAh battery.
MEIZU
Editor’s comment:
This mobile phone is very good with portable big ears, especially headphones with low impedance and low sensitivity. It can also be seen from the side that the thrust of this mobile phone is appropriate, even if the vocal performance is not exciting, it is a kind of voice that is a little warm and a little hoarse.
Excellent hammer l without mentioning sound quality
I believe many friends are very interested in this year’s release. After all, this one can be said to be the main stream of the hammer mobile phone, especially the hammer and L. Especially from the configuration point of view, it is indeed the flagship mainstream level. In fact, the author is most concerned about the audio chip of the hammer mobile phone. As can be seen from the official website, this mobile phone uses chips that are very mainstream in the market and have excellent performance and parameters.
Parameter comparison between Smartisan and Smartisan L (quoted from the official website of Hammer)
CS4398 is the flagship decoding chip of Cirrus Logic, and its performance is excellent. It can also be found in the CD player with a price of more than 70,000 yuan. CS4398 is a decoding chip with a specification of 24Bit/192K Hz. It has a signal-to-noise ratio of more than 120 dB and a dynamic range, and the total harmonic distortion+noise is as low as 0.0005%. It adopts an advanced special multi-bit Delta-Sigma modulator and integrates mismatch noise shaping technology. (It seems to be very powerful) Although the price and index of cs4398 are not the highest and most expensive category of decoding chips, the sound of this sound quality chip is actually very special.
Smartisan series
Editor’s comment:
Although the specific parameters of this mobile phone were not put forward in detail at the press conference, it is very good in both the audio parameters and the actual listening sense. The single DAC chip not only improves the sound thickness, resolution, sound field and thrust compared with the mobile phone without a single DAC chip.
See also ES9018K2M chip.
This chip can be said that the author likes a chip very much. From the traditional computer to the terminal, almost all audio-related devices adopt ESS Technology’s chip technology, such as the recently popular Daao II HE1 and HiFiMAN 901 series, etc., and the chip technology of ESS Technology was adopted as early as possible, which is enough to show the importance attached by vivo mobile phones to audio.
The second generation of Daao uses the full version of ES9018 chip (quoted from Google).
Actually, for ESS, ESS Technology Inc. was founded in California in 1984, and its founders applied the scientific and technological inventions of audio reconstruction to electronic audio books and greeting cards. ESS then applied this audio technology to personal computers, successfully developed the first stereo single chip, and condensed the huge computer sound blaster card into a semiconductor chip, becoming the leader of audio chip technology for personal computers and notebook computers.
The mobile terminal adopts ES9018K2M chip (quoted from baike).
Today, ESS Technology Company has developed into an important manufacturer of semiconductor chips for multimedia, personal computers, consumer electronics and other products in the world. Besides computer audio chips, video technology (MPEG) and fax/Modem technology (Modem) of ESS provide customers with high-performance, advanced technology and reasonable price chips and supporting software solutions, which is one of the important pillars of ESS Company’s success.
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As a mobile version of ES9018, ES9018k2m perfectly solves the problem of huge power consumption, and has a dynamic range of 127dB DNR. The ESS audio chip has 127 dB, which can better show the details of music. The ultra-low distortion of -120dB THD+N can better restore the essence of music; The sampling rate reaches 192kHz/24bit, which will meet the performance level of the most demanding audio lovers. At the same time, it also supports a variety of lossless music such as DSD, APE and FLAC, so that you can enjoy higher quality music.
Editor’s comment:
This chip is mature, and it is very suitable to be placed on vivo X9 Plus. First of all, the sound is clean and the background is very black. At the same time, matching headphones can be described as "tiger balm", especially earplugs, which can get a good sense of hearing.
It has always been a custom chip.
The biggest difference is the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack. In fact, we still need to start from the initial disassembly. First of all, the author can find from the disassembly diagram that the previous 3.5mm headphone jack has been occupied by the TAPTIC Enging module and the home button. This module can bring a similar feel to the mechanical Home button when pressing the iPhone7. However, the impression of thinning the thickness of the fuselage did not appear, and I can only say that I was slightly disappointed.
From the disassembly diagram, we can see that TAPTIC ENGING in the new iPhone7 series occupies the position of 3.5mm headphones.
Red: apple/cirrus logic 338s00105audiocodec orange: Cirrus Logic 338S00220 audio decoding chip (x2).
1MORE’s three-cell ring iron earphone Lightning digital version with iPhone7 simple listening introduction:
This earphone had the first generation, 1MORE three-cell ring iron earphone. This time, the plug was replaced by Lightning and the decoding chip was built in. What about it? First of all, the biggest feeling for the author is: the improvement of overall analytical power and clean background. The song "Never say never" can fully show the characteristics of this earphone: the vocal performance is clear, and Justin Bieber’s voice line is clear and elastic, and the vocal knot is not particularly front, and there is no common sense of "sticking to the face". The low frequency shows that the dive is fast, the rebound is appropriate, and the amount is medium, so you won’t feel the boom. The resolution of high frequency on iPhone7 is still good, and there is no "harsh" feeling, while the extension performance is excellent.
1MORE’s three-cell ring iron earphone Lightning digital versionWith iPhone7
Editor’s comment:
I didn’t feel any trouble with this headset, because the iPhone7 came with a patch cord, so the 3.5mm headset can be used as usual. At the same time, the AirPods headset has been released recently, which can be said to be seamless, and there is no need to consider the fetters of wires at all. However, it is a little difficult to grab this headset, and it will take nearly 6 months to deliver it. It is better to replace the headset with the Lightning digital version interface, such as the 3-cell iron headset of 1MORE, which was simply evaluated above.
Traditional manufacturers play HiFi, and the sound is not bad. Cool 1S
This model not only has excellent performance, but also has remarkable accessories, especially headphones. For example, it is equipped with AKG custom headphones (the author studied it, and this headset is AKG high-end HiFi headphones).
Better resolution and clearer sound quality (quoted from Cool official website)
This audition experience can be said to be very good, not only the interface is very friendly, but also the operation can be very simple. At the same time, it also integrates a very good concert ticket purchasing function, so that you can enjoy the charm of music at the same time. It can be said that Cool 1S has truly achieved HiFi-level sound quality in terms of sound, not only with the built-in Harman Clari-FI sound source restoration algorithm, but also with the LiveStage virtual surround sound effect algorithm, so that the sound quality can be perfectly restored from the details to the sound field.
Editor’s comment:
The configuration of this mobile phone is also good: S1 adopts Qualcomm Snapdragon 821, screen, IMX298 sensor, equipped with rear camera and 0.1 second speed PDAF phase focusing technology; The 8-megapixel front camera can achieve a super-large pixel size of 1.4 μ m. Equipped with a large battery capacity of 4070mAh and AKG custom headphones, it can be said that it is an all-round mobile phone for HiFi to listen to music and play games.
The first ES9038 high-quality chip.
Supporting DSD in hardware decoding is simply a bunker, and vivo is the first audio chip of ES9038, which I am very concerned about. Furthermore, supporting hardware decoding will further improve the sound quality, and at the same time, three OPA1622 can provide a good thrust, so it is no problem to carry big ears.
Friends who used to watch the author’s evaluation before will be very curious. Why not evaluate the mobile phone sound? No, I’m trying vivo Xpay6 these days. The sound quality of this mobile phone still needs to be explained, because this mobile phone uses ES9038 chip, and this author can only find the data of ES9038 PRO:
Unfortunately, ES9038PRO will not appear on mobile phones (quoted from ESS official website).
ES9038PRO is a DAC chip with the highest index in the industry, with signal-to-noise ratio as high as 140dB and total harmonic distortion plus noise of -122dB. At the same time, it is a 32-Bit, 8-channel DAC. From the parameter point of view, ES9038PRO is enough to kill all opponents in the market, and it also successfully took over from the flagship ES9018S(129dB, -120dB) of the previous generation.
But the mobile phone is not available.
So the author went to the official website of vivo to find out and saw the introduction on the official website of vivo:
DSD hardware decoding is the highlight (quoted from vivo official website)
It can be found that in addition to starting ES9038, there are three operational amplifiers OPA1622. In fact, the most important thing is to support DSD hardware decoding. When you see DSD, someone may ask what format it is. In fact, this evaluation is mainly about lossless sound quality: nothing more than WAV and format, but the DSD format file is actually fundamentally different from WAV and FLAC. I won’t explain here such very profound words as WAV encapsulated in pulse code modulation format, DSD using pulse density modulation (PDM) and so on. But the author also briefly summarized it.
DSD format is still very advantageous.
Advantages:
1. Compared with WAV and FLAC formats, WAV has a higher sampling rate. Generally, WAV has a sampling rate of 44.1KHZ, while DSD can reach 176KHZ if converted into PCM format because it is a single bit stream.
2. The noise above the sound will be much cleaner. This has a great relationship with the role of the modem, which directly concentrates the noise on the UHF part.
Summary:
These mobile phones really let you see the mainstream music HiFi mobile phones in 2016. Whether you want to listen to songs with a good sound quality mobile phone or an audio enthusiast, these HiFi music mobile phones introduced by the author here are all models that can represent the mobile phone market in 2016. This is equivalent to a review, or please be calm and wait for the author."2016 mainstream music mobile phone inventory test and listening"In this article, the author will use the sound card to install RAMM for testing, and then combine the corresponding sense of hearing.
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