Playing Music On Your Phone Speaker

 

Audio Nerd-ing Out. 

So made an EQ matching my phones sound on music. Allows to me to check my mixes in the DAW and change it to suit, if I could be bothered😄.  But the reality is, if you are listening on a Phone Speaker, you don't care about quality.  

But checking the mix on really low end speakers is still actually very important.  

The Sound File of Brown Noise was generated in Audacity, then played in a loop on the phone using Pulsar Music Player.

I used to use REW and my calibrated measuring microphone a fair bit in different projects in decades past, and so had appropriate gear at hand to measure the sound coming from the phone, even though high accuracy isn't needed here. 

The rest was just all done in my REAPER DAW.

The JBL FLIP series of Bluetooth speakers is or was a popular speaker, so we measures that was well.

The FLIP has a 100Hz boost, but has a reasonable downward slope to 15K, with a dip at 2Khz for  a "ALWAYS LOUDNESS ON"  type sound.   Would expect most home entertainment/ soundbar/ music players have a response like that. BOSE systems were always something like that (and NEVER "Hi-Fi")...

Here comparing the myphone to my Flip5:

And I made an EQ to approximate the FLIP5 as well, and put NORMAL, FLIP5 & PHONE processed sections on the music track in this:

Just an approximation, but could help in MIX decisions. 

Listening to music from your phone on headphones or earbuds isn't a low end experience at all though. The quality is better than what we had from standard record players back in the 1970s.

Phone Speakers are probably about the worst case though.  Even super thin panel TVs with really inadequate speakers sound better. Something like the old Auratones is still a good reference. 

The music in this short is the first time I have used Zebra Legacy, the Hans Zimmer version and that really is incredible.  Just so much inspiring stuff.

The reason players buy new stuff is to get inspired. We also tend to collect stuff, even if they are just small things, more than we really need too.  But artists do that with art supplies too.

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