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Alright, so you guys know that I've been raving about the speakers on the Razer phone
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It's the best speaker I've ever heard on a smartphone. But unfortunately, a reaction, it doesn't give you the experience that I had
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So, I got an idea. Let's try, somewhat scientifically, to figure out how much better, how much louder the speakers on the Razer phone are compared to some other flagships
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I've got the Razer Phone, the Note 8, the Pixel 2 XL, and the new iPhone X
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I'll be testing all four of these devices using this little guy over here
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A Checkmate SPL meter, and it can measure the sound pressure produced by these various devices
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So this will give us a numerical readout for each of these smartphones
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Scientific perspective on the performance of these various speakers. So what do you say Jack? Should we boot this guy up and get her going
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Of course we should. I mean, you're not gonna stop me at this point. I have a little stand here because with a smartphone, you sit in front of it
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You hold it right here. So the measurement should come from your location
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Okay, so let's kick it off the Pixel 2 XL. So I'm gonna use a tone generator to keep it as static as possible so that the reading will be accurate across all of them
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This guarantees that we'll be able to track back the DB readout on this device across various spectrums
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It gonna go from 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz which is the human audio spectrum Now I do want to give you a warning This thing here it can get pretty loud Turn down your headphones if you need to don go blowing your ear drums out alright I don want to be held responsible so
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fair warning, if you need to turn the headphones down do it. Alright, so here's test number one, this is the Pixel 2 XL
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Pixel 2 XL, it peaked around 93 DBA
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Okay, next up I have the Note 8 and the exact same position. Here we go
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around 90 91 on this so something to keep in mind with the note obviously the speaker fires to the it not as loud either way I also noticed a greater fluctuation in volume across the frequency range on this particular device If you listening to music the drums and so on
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it's all down in the lower register. And then other things like voice are up in the higher
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register. So what you're really looking for is volume available across the human frequency range
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I have the iPhone, the iPhone 10. So this has a similar speaker layout to the Note
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but you also get a little bit of audio coming out of the earpiece. Here we go. The iPhone made it as high as 96 which kind of surprises me
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It also spent more time above 80 dBA than the Note series did
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It was registering louder across a much wider range of frequency. But what I think is happening here is that the earpiece section is contributing to some of the higher frequency stuff
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and adding volume back there. Impressive figures here from the iPhone 10
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Alright, last up is the Razer phone. Each of these speakers has its own amp, and I'm speculating that this should beat those devices based on my ears
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But let go ahead and see what the science says
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Here's the cool thing about this particular phone. Not only do you see it crack 100 dB a few times
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but you also see it live in the 90 plus range and the high 90s across a wider spectrum
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So when it comes to our perception of quality audio, what our ears are really looking for is volume and punch in all those places
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So the fact that it could have performance registering in frequency ranges that the other ones couldn't
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implies the quality of speaker and the quality of amplifier. The surprising finding here is how good the iPhone X is as well
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Gets pretty loud and sounds pretty good. Of course, none of the other flagships are in the same neighborhood as the Razer phone
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Not like I expected them to be. If you want the ultimate audio experience in a smartphone, you're probably looking at the Razer phone
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So there you have it. Four high-profile flagship smartphones tested using my handy little SPL meter
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