Rezound music player compared to ipod

[airtas]

I have recently started using my rezound as my music player and comparing it to my ipod touch it seems harsh and bland.

I am using the same headphones on both players, also with the rezound I need to have the volume louder than the ipod why is that?

What does the ipod have internally that makes it sound better?

 

[dabombcra]

I have recently started using my rezound as my music player and comparing it to my ipod touch it seems harsh and bland.

I am using the same headphones on both players, also with the rezound I need to have the volume louder than the ipod why is that?

What does the ipod have internally that makes it sound better?

My Rezound sounds better than my iTouch. Do you have Beats turned on? As for the volume, not sure why it would sound so low. I don't have that issue.

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[Deron Baker]

I've compared my iPod to my Rezound by listening back and forth to the same song on both devices. My Rezound blows my iPod out of the water. None of the equalizer settings on the iPod can make the music sound as good as Beats audio can. And the funny thing is that I listen to death metal, and beats audio still sounds great.

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[MrSmith317]

Try volume+ or DSP manager. Either way I don't think OP is getting the EQ'ability of the Rezound.

 

[burwil]

I've got an iPad3 and Rezound. I don't prefer one over the other and I got some half way decent Bose headphones (yeah yeah Bose haters give it a rest. Being an audiophile I also have a pair of Stax electrostatic....but we are still listening to compressed music folks.)

Anyway I recommend something called Equalizer from the market. Not a ton of adjustment points on the frequency spectrum but they are well chosen and get the job done. I still haven't quite figured out volume +. Probably due more to laziness than anything.

Btw I'll add that buying the same music from Google vs. Amazon will give you different sounds. Google being a bit more peaky and harsh than Amazon IMO.

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[Bucsfan76]

My Rezound sounds better than my iTouch. Do you have Beats turned on? As for the volume, not sure why it would sound so low. I don't have that issue.

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how do you turn on Beats? can you only use it in the stock media player? I thought there was supposed to be a beats icon when you plug in earbuds

 

[mtbhk44]

I have been using Poweramp since it was released maybe a year and a half or so ago. It has a 10 band EQ w/beats integrated if you so desire. I just bought the phone a week or so ago so I have not yet tried the stock HTC player yet, but I have found Poweramp to give me a far better sound than any of my iPods or my wife's iPhone 4S.

 

[zrxoa1]

My only real complaint on the Rezound as a music player is that using the phone with no headphones, the OEM speaker is not very loud. My iPhone 4 is much louder. However, when plugging into a speaker dock, the Rezound sounds much much better than an iPod on same dock. I use the microUSB to iPod female cable from Cablejive.




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[silvra7]

how do you turn on Beats? can you only use it in the stock media player? I thought there was supposed to be a beats icon when you plug in earbuds

I'd like to know this too? Is this a Sense 4 or HTC One feature? I've never seen the beats audio symbol when I plug my headphones in but I've been using LauncherPro and Play Music.

I just came to the Rezound from the DInc (couldn't pass up $49 price). I don't know if it's true for the current music player but I had to use Winamp because I like to put whatever playlist I'm currently listening to on shuffle and found that unlike the iPod my DInc's stock player would play the same songs 3 or 4 times in a short period during any listening session. Even skipping it would bring it back in after the next song. I found the same to be true with Double twist. In general I stick to my iPod classic in the car as it's less of a distraction to control the music with a physical control switch, but I use my phone during work outs.

 

[Wanda]

I'd like to know this too? Is this a Sense 4 or HTC One feature? I've never seen the beats audio symbol when I plug my headphones in but I've been using LauncherPro and Play Music.

I just came to the Rezound from the DInc (couldn't pass up $49 price). I don't know if it's true for the current music player but I had to use Winamp because I like to put whatever playlist I'm currently listening to on shuffle and found that unlike the iPod my DInc's stock player would play the same songs 3 or 4 times in a short period during any listening session. Even skipping it would bring it back in after the next song. I found the same to be true with Double twist. In general I stick to my iPod classic in the car as it's less of a distraction to control the music with a physical control switch, but I use my phone during work outs.

For now Beats only works with the stock music app which is why you're not seeing it. It's supposedly going to be able to be used by all music apps but I haven't heard any updates for that. There is a flashable .zip that allows you use Beats for any music app on the phone but I haven't tried so I can't verify that it works.

 

[twolastnames]

For now Beats only works with the stock music app which is why you're not seeing it. It's supposedly going to be able to be used by all music apps but I haven't heard any updates for that. There is a flashable .zip that allows you use Beats for any music app on the phone but I haven't tried so I can't verify that it works.

It's built into Sense4

 

[mtbhk44]

OK - so on my way home last night I used the stock player with the beats integrated audio for the first time - and then compared it to Poweramp. There's really no comparison. Poweramp blows away the stock music player with and without Beats. The highs are more crisp, the lows are more consistent with the music and not just bassy for the sake of being bassy (see: Beats) and the mids stretch the music out much better and dive into the underlying instrumentation depending on the music.

However, if you are going to stick with the stock player, go get Equalizer from the market as someone else earlier suggested. It stretches out the music better than the stock player can do on it's own. I don't even think the beats audio is necessary to be honest - seems more schtick than substance.

 

[burwil]

I like all the bells and whistles in Poweramp. Problem for me is that the interface is too cluttered and confused. It is very unintuitive to me. I use player pro instead. The very worst IMO is google's own music player.


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[MrSmith317]

I like all the bells and whistles in Poweramp. Problem for me is that the interface is too cluttered and confused. It is very unintuitive to me. I use player pro instead. The very worst IMO is google's own music player.


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Do you mean play music(formerly google music) or "Music" which on the Rezound was created by HTC.

 

[burwil]

Yes Play Music.

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[dmmarck]

The iPod's standard music playing software is kind of terrible, so it wouldn't shock me if a "music oriented" phone like the Rezound had a vastly superior player.

 

[MrSmith317]

Yes Play Music.

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Oh, I actually like Google music(Play Music). I'm not much for the stock music player. I thought Google Music was a pretty clean interface. And the fact that I can edit my playlists online and they update even while I'm listening was pretty great.

 

[burwil]

Sometimes the 'sound effects' setting is there and sometimes it isn't. And you can go backwards three different ways....headphones icon on top left, back button on capacitive bar and another backwards arrow that takes you to the album name and another click takes you to the titles. Anyway I might be too hard on Play Music. Player pro just makes alot of intuitive sense to me with a simple but very capable interface.

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[jmk32]

Ipod equalizer settings are a joke. I bought an equalizer app for the ipod that makes it sound a lot better, but head to head vs stock player on the Rezound with Beats on - Rezound is better. I use the Rezound as my daily music player hooked up to the Bose player in my car.

I don't think Apple has done a single thing to improve their music player in like 10 years...

 

[MrSmith317]

Apple counts on you running an EQ or amp or being tone deaf