This year is home to the HiFi mobile phone . Each brand has its top flagship audio module. The G5 and Xplay5 flagships are among the best. The stack is in place. What is the actual sense of hearing ? ? (In this comparison, in addition to the normal lossless sound source, DSD sound sources will be played on 2 mobile phones to squeeze out their ultimate decoding capability.)
G5:
The first thing to know is that the G5 is not equipped with a HiFi module, but it can be transformed into a music phone by replacing the chin module. LG has equipped the G5 with a module component called Hi-Fi Plus. Created by LG and B&O, built-in ES9028C2M DAC chip and Sabre9602C op amp, according to the official introduction of the ES9028C2M integrated "dual" decoding (officially known as "Patented 32-bit HyperStream Dual DAC"), can decode up to 32-bit Lossless music or DSD music restores pure music in a clearer and less distorted manner.
In addition to the integrated audio chip, Hi-Fi Plus also integrates a speaker, a Type-C interface, a main microphone, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Also note that the headset must be plugged into the Hi-Fi Plus's headphone jack to activate its HiFi module, and the headset port plugged into the phone body will not be activated.
As long as the battery, Hi-Fi Plus and body fit together, the G5 is transformed into a HiFi phone, but the only flaw is the G5+Hi-Fi Plus's price is a bit too low.
Xplay5 Ultimate:
Xplay5 Ultimate is a lot purer than the G5. It is a mobile phone for music enthusiasts. It is equipped with two ES9028Q2M (vivo X6 Plus only one), one for the left and right channels, and with three The OPA1612 op amp (secondary op amp, with two preamps), and its body memory reached 128GB, so it can be said that as a 2016 flagship music phone, the accessories it used are indeed disdainful. .
G5:
G5's HiFi module does not need to specifically open it. When the headset is plugged into the HiFi module, the system will automatically open the HiFi module, and the HiFi logo will appear on the top bar. At this time, the system's global audio will operate in the HiFi mode.
G5's built-in music player can automatically recognize and play DSD music. DSD logo will be marked under the DSD sound source. The volume level can also be controlled by the HiFi module. The overall operation flow is played under the DSD sound source. It's also easy to understand, and the equalizer will fail when playing music with the HiFi module.
In addition to the standard classification, the G5 music player can also play music through the cloud. If the home has a local area network, it can directly play the sound source in the server through the network, and bid farewell to the lack of memory. However, it is a pity that the built-in player does not have online music. If you need to listen to new music, you can only solve it by downloading or importing third-party online players.
In the setup menu, you can see that when HiFi module is inserted, the 32-bit Hi-Fi DAC will appear in the advanced settings. The HiFi module will automatically select the high or low gain to play according to the user's inserted headphone impedance, and the user can also pass it. The system sets the balance of the left and right headphones.
Xplay5 Ultimate:
As a flagship music phone, although the Xplay5 Ultimate does not support memory expansion, it is equipped with 128GB UFS2.0 memory chips, both in terms of internal transmission and volume, than the expansion card to the actual and easy to use.
In addition to the regular categories, Xplay5 Ultimate also adds online music to allow users to listen to new music while they are away.
Xplay5 Ultimate HiFi mode is very convenient to open, just click the HiFi button on the playback interface, and if you like to use third-party applications using HiFi mode, you can set the sound - HiFi to set. And the mainstream third-party player support is fairly complete.
When playing DSD audio, Xiao Bian found that Xplay5 Ultimate can hardly play DSD audio, but the player itself cannot recognize the DSD format. The user must enter the file manager to click and listen to it. The operating experience is not ideal.
The ear plug for this test was Sennheiser's IE80.
Eason Chan "Guangdong Select"
Format: DSF 2.8 MHz
Eason Chan's "Guangdong Collection" contains many of his classic songs, such as next year today, years, such as songs, etc., by using G5 and Xplay5 Ultimate Comparison, for the DSD audio source G5 will no doubt look more calm, especially the three-band Control is a lot more in place, vocal relatively front, low-frequency dive well and retractable, and Xplay5 Ultimate is more boring, low-frequency contrast G5 will not receive the situation, many details are covered by LF , And not a good restore of the amount of information DSD should have, this may be no vivo tuning for DSD audio, plus its own player does not recognize the DSD source, the overall experience is much less than the G5.
Joey Yung, "My Pride"
Format: DSF 2.8 MHz
The "My Pride" of Joey Yung was well-known throughout the year. He also swept through the awards at the end of the year to include awards for many songs and best female singers. His album of the same name also included my pride and patience. , the final lesson and other classic songs, compared by the results of the AB comparison of two mobile phones in fact with the previous, G5 is more balanced compared to the Xplay5 flagship version of the tri-band, a good restore of the DSD audio source amazing amount of information, the song Each detail includes the singer's breathing, swallowing water, etc. can hear without reservation, the resolving power is very good, midrange vocals stretch well, the low frequency is also just right, Xplay5 Ultimate is still old problems, excessive frequency leads to a lot of details lost , also swallowed the poison of female voice.
Lin Junjie "talk to yourself"
Format: FLAC 44.1kHz
"Dialogue with myself" is the 12th album released by Lin Junjie on December 25th, 2015. It is also his first experimental album. It creates a precedent for pop music and adopts "head recording" technology to create sounds. The sense of space creates "3D superstereoscopic surround hearing." In this audition, since the sound source format is the common FLAC lossless music format, Xplay5 Ultimate music player can finally be properly identified, and the strength finally returned to normal (it seems that the DSD format has not been specifically trained). The low frequency becomes strong and powerful, and the midrange and high frequency appear to be more in place than the G5. Because this album uses the “recording of the head†technology, the overall sense of space through the Xplay5 flagship is very real, and the sound image is also exaggerated. To the perverted level, as a whole, the identity of its flagship position,
The other half of the G5 will appear looser than the Xplay5 Ultimate, which is a completely different style of tuning, but this time the vocals will be slightly more pointed, and the overall performance of the two will be in the music under the normal lossless format. The mobile phone is considered to be the peak performance, and more shows that their tuning style is not the same, Xplay5 flagship medium-low frequency, suitable for listening to pop, rock or male voice, and G5 is more prominent high-frequency, ACG, female voice, There will be better performances such as lyricism.
After some comparison of the sounds of AB, it can be found that although the Xplay5 flagship and G5 face a large number of national tiles and professional players may still have deficiencies, but in the field of mobile phones can have such a performance is already rare, Xplay5 Ultimate overall It can be positioned as convenient and direct. Its large enough memory plus perverted audio hardware has laid a good foundation for its sound, and its HiFi mode has also been optimized for a number of third-party audio software, both importing and online can provide you with good The music listening experience, but the shortcomings are also very clear is the lack of support for top-level audio sources such as DSD, the player does not support DSD audio source identification and its own optimization of the DSD playback is not enough, in general, Xplay5 Ultimate is more suitable for testing under Most young people want to listen and listen. The positioning of the G5 is to pay attention to the fact that its music player is more pure, and support for the DSD can be said to be more than sufficient in terms of operation or playback, especially its operation is more convenient than many professional bricks A lot. However, due to its own memory, although it can be expanded, it is still inferior to the Xplay5 flagship. Secondly, the HiFi mode of the G5 must be purchased through the Hi-Fi Plus module. At the end of the game, high-quality audio sources such as the DSD will consume power. Too fast and the problem of body heat, G5 is actually more suitable for some audio enthusiasts, has a very high pursuit of the sound source, but also want to carry people to follow the end, because these types of friends have a heart toss, although G5 The Xplay5 flagship version requires a lot of troubles like replacing modules, importing audio sources, and investing more, but it will be worthwhile if you can put your own collection of audio sources for many years.