Gadgetory

Juan Carlos Wagner here for Pocket now with a quick follow-up to a video we put out earlier this week we did a rumor and wish list roundup on the LG g6 one of the things that we mentioned in that video was that the potential next generation flagship phone from LG was going to have a brand new quad DAC potentially an even better quad DAC than the one found in the LGB 20 we should at least mention what makes the V 20 so special and there are really two things going on that make this phone such a beefed signal processing and output power we've seen a number of manufacturers claim 24-bit audio support and sure those phones might be able to playback 24-bit audio files but the actual output coming from the jacket into your ears is usually truncated down to 16-bit you're not really getting everything you paid for if you're one of those individuals who does invest in super high quality audio files v28 having none of that when LG says this is a 32-bit DAC not only will the software play a 32-bit audio file the headphone jack will properly output the full frequency response of a 32-bit audio file for those who don't understand what that means that's ridiculous overkill as the frequency response range of 32-bit audio will extend past what dogs can hear already I can feel the audio file nerd rage war which is about to break out in their comments the people who believe that you don't need anything more than 16-bit audio the people who prefer 24-bit audio regardless of what camp you're in you would still want the highest quality presentation for those audio files and that brings me to the real ear candy that you get on the V 20 and that's the amp I still need to do that explaining the video on headphone impedance but regardless the V 20 is very intelligent in how it detects what type of headphones you're using wrapping up that little detour on why the V 20 was so formidable and getting back to the g6 the point of this video there are still plenty of areas where I feel LG could improve the signal processing and the output on a future phone LG working with ESS they're the manufacturer of the dax and the v10 in the b20 they really wouldn't have to do much to scientifically improve the g6 to claim those audio improvement Vic it would only take a handful of subtle tweaks to improve things like the signal-to-noise ratio the difference between the general noise floor that all audio gear creates and the actual audio you want to listen to the stereo crosstalk in a stereo system we like to keep those channels as separate as we can but there will always be some leak from your right ear into your left ear and from your left ear into your right ear or maybe even just clean up some of the harmonic distortions that we would find in all portable electronics those distortions becoming more prevalent as we start using higher bitrate audio files do any of those points sound like they're going to be really exciting improvements to your music listening experience probably not when we went from the v10 to the b20 the improvements were pretty subtle and that's my prediction for the g6 - I think we're going to see something iterative it will be an improvement but I don't think it's going to blow the doors off mobile audio yet in a world where more manufacturers are looking to get rid of that 3.5 millimeter Jack any improvement to the cabled listening experience built into our phones is going to be appreciated by us fans of using nicer headphones I mean even if you're not using nicer headphones a better source is a better source and of course we want to hear from you when LG says they're going to improve the quad DAC on the g6 over the v20 what do you think they're going to bring to the table what do you hope to see in any future phone and if listening to audio is a primary usage of your smartphone will Hardware like this motivate you to pick up the next generation LG drop us a comment down below this video let's see if we can strike up some conversations on audio and music listening as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more coverage of future smartphones set to debut at MWC as I'm about to get on a plane to Barcelona to go and check this stuff out I'm really excited about that trip and helped us out with some sharing on your favorite social network for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now so I'm gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video