Gadgetory

hey everybody wand Agnel here for pocket now and motorola as a company isn't really known for being a top multimedia brand sure there have been a couple shining examples like stereo speakers on the Nexus 6 but historically this has been a label which represents business grade durability and communications reliability a few experiments into crowd-pleasing stuff really haven't gotten their way we find ourselves with a fairly controversial device just what do we expect out of a premier flagship phone kicking off this audio examination with speaker tech if you're only going to put one speaker on a phone motorola has the right recipe for how to do that I don't think the speakers really any higher quality than any of our other mono speaker phones but just the fact that it's pointed in the right direction just makes this experience so much nicer there's only going to be one speaker on your phone it should be pointed at your face and it might as well be at the top of the phone so it can double as a much louder speakerphone solution which still lines up with your ear in your jaw that's all well and good but we also have to talk about the headphone game namely the lack of any 3.5 millimeter headset or phone Oh Jack on this phone we're playing with angles just like last year's moto Z unfortunately for this year's phone motorola is facing much steeper headphone competition both LG and samsung steps up this year with true 32-bit playback and punch your amps and standouts like the oneplus 5 shows you can spend a little less and get a little bit more very few modern smartphones really have issues playing 32-bit audio these days but this is one of the few premium options this year which is still truncating output back down to 16 bit playing a 32-bit 192 kilohertz audio file we should be able to generate frequencies of sound that most dogs cannot hear but looking at the chart we can see the moto z2 is falling way short of the competition plus the rest of the numbers from our analysis are either good or ok noise floor signal-to-noise ratio harmonic distortion they're all just fine these quality numbers might not have been so bad at Motorola had at least given us a decent amp on board yeah this is LG g5 territory and is woefully inadequate for powering nicer headphones if you're listening to your tunes on some inexpensive consumer earbuds again this is all fine it's going to be good enough but at this price point at this price tear and with a ton of competition starting to undercut what this phone is launched at are we really okay with just good enough these are just obnoxious to keep track of and if you lose one say you're travelling you can't just go to an airport gadget store and hope that they'll have a replacement until we can sort out USB audio on Android really your safest bet for these headphone jack less devices is to invest in some decent Bluetooth audio gear and the one small concern there for the Moto z2 we've not yet gotten confirmation if this supports aptX that's a high quality wireless streaming codec that's a concern right now but it's a little less of a concern if we're looking long-term as Android Oh should bring native aptX support to Android in the future that higher quality audio codec will just be baked into your operating system there you have it folks the audio on the moto z2 force I'm digging that front facing speaker I really like that as a solution for media and for phone calls but this headphone game that's pretty weak as always folks thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more reviews like these we have a whole series of real audio reviews where you can compare our analysis and our benchmarks across all of the phones we've reviewed and helped us out with a share on your favorite social network we're walking out I'm Juan Carlos bag now so I'm gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next review only one other flagship phone this year has been playing in this disappointing territory and wouldn't you know it it's also rocking a dongle