[PRO 5] Headphone volume low sound and quality very average

[Lars Modig]

Meizu do a lot of marketing on their hi-fi audio and in the android reviews theres also mention reg the great loudness.
The volume of the inbuilt speaker are indeed loud but pluging in a pair of headset it's really silent. You absolutely need to have it at max.

Could it be that you need to increase a second volume control? I know I had some issue like that back on the 7.04 desktop...

Br,

Lars

[Julia Palandri (julia-palandri)]

@lars, are you sure it's not your headphones volume control? I just controlled and with my earphones it worked ok - of course different albums might have different volumes, but I can hear high and loud both with regular headphones and with BT headsets

[Lars Modig (modig-lars)]

Hi,

I do hear sound in the earphones but based on the comercial by Meizu where it says that the Meizu pro 5 (android version) manage also as haedphone amplifier also for hifi headphones like the Senheiser 650 and I have the present version 600 and that does not sound like I would beleive based on the market tagline that meizu put it.
Specially since the inbuilt speaker is really loud.

I will review the technical spec from meizu and try to do some measurenent when I will be back to work in 3-4 weeks.

Br,

Lars

[Lars Modig (modig-lars)]

I Julia,

I posted a bug question related to this bug on g+ Ubuntu touch.

As I write there the ubuntu pro 5 is more silent then the iphone 5s and
according gsmarena review the android version is actually louder the the
5s...

Thats the reason fir my bug post.

Br,

Lars

tisdagen den 28:e juni 2016 kl. 14:42:21 CEST, Julia Palandri
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> @lars, are you sure it's not your headphones volume control? I just
> controlled and with my earphones it worked ok - of course different
> albums might have different volumes, but I can hear high and loud both
> with regular headphones and with BT headsets
>
> ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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[Mily (mily)]

The sound with headphones is too low compared with others phones (Nokia high end). I tried to use alsamixer command; but not works: "cannot load mixer controls: Operation not permitted".

The sound quality, with headphones, is very average. It is supposed to take the best sound of market. http://www.meizu.com/en/products/pro5/hifi.html
http://headphoniaks.com/blog/smartph...10-meizu-pro5/
http://www.gsmarena.com/meizu_pro_5-review-1336p6.php

I suspect that ESS Technology es9018k2m DAC and Texas Instruments OPA1612 op-amp are disabled, using only the Wolfson WM8998 audio codec IC.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10402/...pro-5-review/7

[_Sven_ (sw-8)]

I have the same issue. Headphone output is too low.
There is a warning when you press Vol. up. After confirm this warning with "OK" its inessential louder.

You can disable this warning in Terminal with

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound warning-volume-enabled false.

But it has no effect on loudness.

You can start alsamixer in Terminal with

alsamixer -c 1

In my case, i cant change Master. Its at a level of 67.

I tried in Terminal

gsettings set com.ubuntu.sound allow-amplified-volume true

and i thought its a very little louder. But not as loud as it should be.

[doniks (kaabud-lp)]

> gsettings set com.ubuntu.sound allow-amplified-volume true

this seems to be working together with

gsetting get com.canonical.indicator.sound amplified-volume-decibels

(11 on a Nexus 7)

but I dont know how risky it is for your hardware to play with such parameters

[jose sanchez (speedracer08861)]

wired headset does have low volume

[W Mauldin (wkm2007)]

Alert volume, multimedia volume, alarm volume, and phone volume are all controlled by the volume rocker. Which one is being changed seems to depend on which app or audio type is open or playing. For some reason, speaker volume is also a separate setting? It seems like the multimedia setting gets out of sync with the speaker volume, making music play at half volume even if the "volume" is all the way up.

I use uVolMan to fix this when it happens.