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SONY Xperia 1 V — is it REALLY the AUDIOPHILE's smartphone
Published 21 Nov 2023
This episode brought to you by NAD C 3050: https://nadelectronics.com/product/c-3050-stereophonic-amplifier/ 🎥 Camera: John Darko 🎬 Editor: John Darko 🌈 Colour: Olaf von Voss 🕺🏻 Motion GFX: John Darko 💰 Ad segment: Jana Dagdagan 🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video - and other videos - can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko 0:00 Intro 0:59 What makes the Sony Xperia 1 V so special? 1:29 Non-audio stuff that I like about the Sony 4:10 Initial listening impressions 5:36 vs. Sony Walkman NW-A306 7:43 vs. FiiO KA2 8:58 vs. AudioQuest DragonFly Black 10:32 vs. Apple Lightning to 3.5mm adapter 10:53 vs. LG V40 12:23 the 🌶️ finding 13:35 vs. Sony WF-1000XM5 14:44 Wired vs. wireless 🤳 Get the Sony Xperia I V here: 🛒 https://amzn.to/47auvto 👉 Also seen in this video... Pro-Ject Speaker Box 5S 2 🛒 https://amzn.to/3G1tt6Z Sony WF-1000XM5 🛒 https://amzn.to/47k8HeG FiiO KA2 🛒 https://amzn.to/49zXwAC FiiO R7 🛒 https://amzn.to/47o5oUa FiiO FT3 🛒 https://amzn.to/3sClIlc FiiO FF3 🛒 https://amzn.to/3u8Neae Sony NW-A306 🛒 https://amzn.to/47pMGer AudioQuest DragonFly Black 🛒 https://amzn.to/478EhMy Sennheiser IE300 🛒 https://amzn.to/49qKQMh Sennheiser IE600 🛒 https://amzn.to/473qNSm Meze Advar 📖 https://mezeaudio.com/products/advar-bundle Streaming platform by Roon 🛒 https://roon.link/affiliate/darko Cables and power products by AudioQuest 🛒 https://howl.me/ckbW8ZBoZAg Hi-fi furniture and speaker stands by Solid Steel 🛒 https://howl.me/ckbW9947Hdi Room treatment by Vicoustic 📖 https://vicoustic.com/ Darko.Audio may earn a small commission from items purchased via affiliate links, which are indicated with a '🛒'. #sony #walkman #xperia __________________________________________________________________ 📖 PLEASE READ *before commenting*! 1) Polite comments that advance the conversation are most welcome 2) No URLs, racist/sexist remarks or conspiracy theories 3) All comments here are moderated by a third party __________________________________________________________________ ⏰ How our YouTube videos get made: https://darko.audio/2021/10/how-our-youtube-videos-get-made/ Darko.Audio FAQ: https://darko.audio/faq/ Why are/were comments turned OFF? https://darko.audio/2020/10/why-im-switching-off-youtube-comments/ What the bloody hell am I talking about? /watch/gf7789BHzBMH7 How is Darko.Audio funded? https://darko.audio/funding/ __________________________________________________________________ 🎧 Check out the Darko.Audio podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darko-audio/id1368388920 https://open.spotify.com/show/1mnKixperZd4zmJWCvEbNl https://soundcloud.com/johnhdarko __________________________________________________________________ Web: https://Darko.Audio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkoaudio/
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Just think about it, what do you do on your phone for the most part? Media consumption on YouTube for example, and what is important for videos? A nice Display and Speakers.
Display: Every flagship phone has a very good one(Iphone, Galaxy, Xperia...)
Speakers: the majority are side facing wich are a pain in the a**, Xperia has a very nice front facing Stereo setup.
For audiophiles just get an external Dac for your demanding Over Ear Headphones as I do, not to mention the internal Dac of your gaming laptop is WAY BETTER than the one of your phone. Honestly my 10 year old laptop has an internal Dac that is impressively similar to my dedicated external one. ... 18
Also you probably don't know the output module of Xperia 1 ii and V are exactly the same. They are tuned by Sony Music's senior mastering engineer Mark Wilder. That's why it is more forwards studio monitoring tuning towards detail retrieval than general consumer based full body sounding you find in LG V series phones. Again they picked a design decision of aiming the accuracy of sound rather than the consumer preference of sound. You never hear "thick and full body sound" in music studio equipments such as the proven music creation industry standard MDR-7506 ... 21
Still using it... 16
Also, they might have skipped over improving the DAC for two more technical reasons:
- lack of physical space (we don't think about it, but smartphones are already extremely dense with base components, and I'm pretty sure a good dac requires more space than a basic one
- price, simply. At 1400€, this phone is already up there with the best of the best from the competition, and a high quality DAC might just bring that price too high to make the product financially viable. ... 12
I've almost always bought Sony phones with the exception of my S3 back in the day that was awesome and my current s10 which is a giant POS but at the time was the only phone without peasant specs that had a headphone jack and SD card slot here in Canada as our providers are predatory trash with even more garbage phone selections. ... 7
Twin screens & 3.5 jack etc😮😮😮 5
My brother, it is not an audiophile Flac/mp3 player. it is also not that Fiio humongous android lossless player. It is...a phone. The mere fact sony decided to add the socket and a 24bit Dac chipset in it is praise worthy in a world where big companies decide what we want.
funnily enough the 2018 Galaxy Note 9 has a 32bit DAC in it which rips through even my 350 ohms cans.
This Sony is the only worthwhile upgrade i have found in the past 2 years whilst looking for a replacement for my note 9.
At the end of the day, your input and experinces are greatly appreciated, though. We are all entitled to our own opinions. ... 13
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Update: so exactly as I feel about Xperia. Got disappointment and jack connection is not used in my case straight from the phone. Apart of it, when I tried to listen my B&W PX8 via usb-c cable directly, sound volume is horribly low. So there is only Bluetooth with aptex adaptive which is more or less usable. Apart of it only dongle remains...Other than that, phone as a package is very good and improved comparing to last year model ... 3
I do really like the long, thin formfactor and the telelens of the Xperia though (but for point and shoots the camera app definitely drops the ball compared to pretty much any other phone at its pricepoint) ... 2
More warmth or less hights is like a sauce, you like that sauce, its fine, but its not in line with the reproduction of the original.
i miss the point of reference of this review,because there is soo much hammered on warmth and the hights. ... 5
The biggest and frankly only issue i had was the camera side -- which for Sony was odd but i found the autofocus and overall quality far too hit & miss. I also found the side fingerprint sensor too limiting. When my phone's on my desk i like to be able to touch the screen and unlock it to see what's going on but with the sony you always have to pick up the device
It's so close to perfect but just a couple major stumbles make it less than the device it could so easily be. ... 4
Nice review anyway 👌 2
The new Pixels have 7 years support. Apple give 6 years and Samsung 5 years so - enough said!
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I think reviewing Asus Zenfone 9 and 10 would be a great idea too. I was considering buying Sony 1 mark 5 bc of it's 3.5 jack. But this video made me think again. Now the next one, I mean Asus Zenfone 10 is more favorable for me to buy. ... 1
Still happily using my LG v60 with android 13 and loving it. With its audio quality, sd card slot, removal second screen, all of which cost me under £650 (256gb model), I'm at a loss to know what to get once updates on my LG have run their course.
Shame Sony won't add phone features to some of its Daps. I'd get one. ... 2
EDIT: I would like to mention I have every audio processing option turned OFF on both devices, nothing extra on windows at 30% vol and on Sony dolby, DSEE, 360 upmix all turned off and since i use spotify I have turned off normalize audio and set quality to very high regardless of connection quality. ... 5
i agree there are some xperia sound features to enable Dolby and up-sampling, i find they really alter the tone and coloration so i tend to leave them off, if i want to boost the sound of my xperia on the go i us my fiio Q3 usb dac amp i have pushed dsd quality audio out of it a few times and it is night and day the quality that thing can do.
or i use my hiby r3 pro saber and either connect with usb c or bluetooth with ldac support and then ill plugin headphones like the koss poorta pro, he 4xx, gl2000, sineaptic se-1 or iems like the senn ie200, kinera celeste pandamon or my favorite the thieaudio Oracle OG ...
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Most of the money went to the camera's and the display. ... 5
I find that the mk2 is sound a lot better then mk5 1
I would love a phone that meshed the LG 's sound with the Sony' s camera/video exierience.
The other issue with the Sony is the software support which is very limited.
The chalkenge with a dongle dac on an Android phone is the down sampling.This can addressed using certain apps but does not address offline experience with streaming apps.
Currently the best overall solution is a seperate dap . Is there a gap in the market? ... 2
And I'm actually on my second handset now, with another sealed & boxed waiting in the wings. I wasn't taking any chances! ... 4