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this episode of what's the apt is brought to you by Netflix well how's it going there gee it's John q here from TechnoBuffalo and welcome to what's the apps this week I thought I'd take a break from iOS and jump back on to the other oh so popular platform that is Android so for this episode of WTA we're gonna be taking a look at how you can improve and enhance your Android Music playback experience with a little app called power amp a while back when I had the HTC Incredible S one of the things that really really turned me off about the phone was the music playback experience I mean it sucked what can man but that's just my opinion though it kind of had a digital fake ish kind of empty sound it felt like HTC thought okay guys we had this phone here so we're gonna put a music player in this phone because every single phone has a music player now we're gonna just allocate all of our time money and resources to make 10 and 20 different phones at all look alike and have the exact same specs but we're gonna name them all something different and no idea why they sound like that in my head plus the volume wasn't really too loud you see I was used to the sound and the quality coming from the iPhone and the iPhone is basically an iPod that you can text and call people but iPod that's a key word they're dedicated music Blair what you're hearing right now is Mike Snow's animal a song that was included with the Google Nexus 1 playing on the Google Nexus 1 like the incredible SC Nexus is made by HTC and it shares that similar HTC semi quiets a digital block and of sound the LG revolution was surprisingly better and has a richer more fuller quality to it I can't put my finger on it but it still doesn't really match that of the iPhones and here is the song being played on what else but the iPhone I guess this is the control part of my not so scientific experiment just a heads up everything you're hearing it's being played with a flat equalizer and the audio is recorded directly into my zoom h4n the Android EQ and presets are too good either so let's get into power amp finally and see how it can fix all this nonsense here power amp is an incredibly well designed piece of app there's a free version but it expires after a couple of weeks and as you can see the UI is a little tacky looking you know sort of reminds me of some winamp skins I used back in the 90s and I thought I was ballin cuz I knew how to feed my music player PS power amps does have a handful of themes unlike the incredibly limiting default to music app power amp allows you to take full control of how your music sounds focusing specifically on improving the sound quality power amp gives you a 10 band fully customizable EQ a preamp as well as post bass treble and volume controls if you're not too comfortable tweaking and customizing the EQ no worries my friends be cowards there's a list of preamp presets available it takes some time to find tuning tweak the settings to match your headphones that you want to use but once you've found that sweet spot the difference is like night and day hey the difference is like night and a pineapple the change is that's dramatic seriously music playback aside the app is feature packed to the max everything you want to do with a music player like last.fm scrabbling handsets cross-fading scanning sorting and slip controls and much much more are there it even comes with four different types of widgets and they all work beautifully speaking of beautiful I'm gonna take some time to give a shout out to a friends at Netflix Netflix Dreams TV episodes and movies directly to your home saving you time and money instantly watched unlimited TV episodes and movies streaming directly onto your PC Mac or right onto your TV with your ps3 xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii console to get your free trial membership go to netflix.com slash buffalo that's right kids netflix.com slash buffalo b u FF alo and sign up today back to the review unfortunately a realistic downside is that this is only an application software it can enhance sound yes but it can't fix sound for example after spending a lot of time tweaking the EQ I wasn't able to find something else happy with on the Nexus I mean I can tolerate it but the quality wasn't something I can just sit back and enjoy I had the exact same issue on my HTC Incredible S so I just ended up not listening to music on that thing which that's not very happy man it's not happy at all the LG revolution was surprising though the music quality is actually pretty good on this guy as you can see music and sound it's a very very subjective thing some people like really crisp treble some people like the mids really high some people like their their beats fast and their bass down though goodness that's a terrible song but it's true but as far as usability quality and control goes power amp is epic totally worth the 5 bucks which is why I give it a solid 5 out of 5 thank you very much for checking out this episode of what's the apps now this is the let's sit down and interact with the audience part of the video I have no idea okay no idea what to review next so if you guys know a really really cool application that you think not too many people know about or if you've heard of a really cool application and you don't want to spend your time or even you know one two five or even ten dollars buying the thing let me know by commenting okay so for next week and maybe just here on out I'm gonna be checking out what you guys are saying and I'm gonna be reviewing the apps that you guys are suggesting thank you very much for tuning in thank you very much for listening to me this was John Q from TechnoBuffalo and I'll see you guys next time laters