DAC in Mobile, Tabs

[utkarsh]

List of devices using the Wolfson WM8994 audio chip and supported by the Voodoo sound mod which unleashes the full potential of the Wolfson DAC:

Samsung Galaxy S, all models (other brandings include Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate, Indulge)
Samsung Galaxy K
Samsung Galaxy U
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0
Samsung Nexus S (also 4G variant)
Samsung Infuse 4G
Samsung Exhibit 4G
Samsung Continuum
Samsung Epic 4G
Samsung Droid Charge
Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0
T-Mobile Sidekick 4G by Samsung
LG Optimus 2x/G2x
Asus Eee Pad Transformer


Other devices with the WM8994 that do not support Voodoo Sound
LG Optimus Black
Motorola Atrix 4G
Motorola Photon 4G
Motorola Droid Bionic
Toshiba Folio 100
Any other device that uses the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor.

Galaxy S3 Wolfson DAC WM1811?
Galaxy S2 Yamaha DAC (very poor SQ).
Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Wolfson DAC WM1811?
iPhone 1- Wolfson WM8758BG
iPhone 3G -Wolfson WM6180C
iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad1 - Cirrus Logic CS42L61
iPhone 4S - Cirrus Logic CLI1560B0
iPad 2, The new iPad - Cirrus Logic CS42L63


Pod 1G & 2G (WM8721),3G (WM8731), 4G(WM8975), 5G (WM87588G) and 5.5G (WM87588G)
iPod nano 1G(WM8975G),2G (WM8975),3G (WM1870)
iPod Touch 1G(WM8758BG)
iPod mini (Wolfson 8731?)
iPod Shuffle 4th Gen (CLI1544C0)

Old HTC phones uses Texas Instruments Audio Chip.
HTC ThunderBolt - TI AIC3254
HTC Titan II - TLV320AIC3254 with mini DSP
HTC Flyer - TLV320AIC3254 with mini DSP
HP TouchPad - WM8958E
Acer Iconia Tab A100 -Wolfson WM8903
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook - Texas Instruments TPA6017A2

Sony PS Vita and PSP WM8973G
Kindle Graphite WM8960G

 

[corElement]

What about windows phone models?

Samsung Focus S
Samsung Focus
Samsung Focus 2
Samsung Focus Flash

Nokia Lumia 710
Nokia Lumia 800
Nokia Lumia 900

HTC Radar
HTC Titan
HTC Titan 2

 

[utkarsh]

Nokia Lumia uses Snapdragon Chipset by Qualcomm has embedded Audio Codec while HTC mobile has Texas Instruments Audio Chip. I don't know about Samsung Windows phone.

 

[bv_abhi]

What about nokia pureview 808?

 

[kaushik]

cheap ceramic capacitors will spoil audio

 

[josephjohnt]

Any idea about Samsung Galaxy Note?

 

[Vijay_s]

Mobile phone manufacturer may not even spend 2% of cost on Dac.
Moreover in such a small size space allotted for DAC what to expect?
I connected my phone to atleast 3 amps, all I could hear is cheap sound.

Sent from my GT-I9001 using Tapatalk 2

 

[utkarsh]

Any idea about Samsung Galaxy Note?

Galaxy Note has a poor DAC - Yamaha YMU823 audio CODEC

 

[josephjohnt]

Galaxy Note has a poor DAC - Yamaha YMU823 audio CODEC

That's unfortunate :sad:

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Nobody has any faith in the built-in sound-card/DAC on a PC motherboard, and yet high quality sound is expected from a phone.

Well, I suppose I can answer my own question: most smart phones cost a lot more than most motherboards, and phones are quite often sold by highlighting the other stuff that they do, including camera, navigation, audio.

As with many things electronic/miniature, the quality of portable audio has increased to the point where even a cheap "MP3 player" gives quite decent results with a decent earphone plugged into it. If we are spending tens of thousands on a phone, we should certainly expect better than that, but, I am still left wondering... How much can we expect from this shirt-pocket-sized thing that does so much stuff as well as playing sound? How much should we expect?

So far I have never really used a phone for portable audio. When I travel I use my Cowon A2 --- which is brick compared to modern designs. One aspect, apart from sound quality, is that I can rely on it's battery getting me through the night on the train. Maybe it is something for me to rethink.

 

[hydra]

Apparently the new (non-US) Samsung Galaxy SIII uses a Wolfson WM1811 chip.

Wolfson confirms the Samsung Galaxy S III uses its audio chip -- Engadget

 

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[jaudere]

I don't know what DAC is there in my Nokia E6 but the sound through USB out fed into standalone DAC is better than that through headphone socket fed into amp directly. I had bought the phone after goign through GSM arena site which showed excellent results in test with a very flat frequency response curve.

 

[theredcommando]

GSMArena results are for active load. For passive load like headphones, numbers drop quite a bit. For newer phones they also include response and numbers after attaching the headphones. They are not that impressive after attaching the passive load.

This is the caveat in their tests as there would seldom be any active load if I am correct.