Gadgetory

all right so you guys know that I've been raving about the speakers on the razor phone it's the best speaker I've ever heard of smartphone but unfortunately a reaction it doesn't give you the experience that I had so I got an idea let's try somewhat scientifically to figure out how much better how much louder the speakers on the razor phone are compared to some other flagships I've got the razor phone the no dates the pixel to Excel and the new iPhone 10 I'll be testing all four of these devices using this little guy over here a checkmate SPL meter and it can measure the sound pressure produced by these various devices so this will give us a numerical readout for each of these smartphones 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 of course we should I mean you're not gonna stop me at this point I have a little stand here because with a smart phone you sit in front of it you hold it right here so the measurement should come from your location okay so let's kick it off the pixel to excel 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 this guarantees that we'll be able to track back the GB readout on this device across various spectrum it's 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't go blowing your eardrums out all right I don't want to be held responsible so fair warning if you need to turn the headphones down do it all right so here's test number one this is the pixel 2 XL [Laughter] pixal to excel it peaked around 93 DBA okay next up I have the note eight and the exact same position here we go [Laughter] around 90 91 on this so something to keep in mind with the note obviously the speaker fires to the side it's not as loud either way I also noticed a greater fluctuation in volume across the frequency range on this particular device if you're listening to music the drums and so on it's all down in the lower register and then other things like voice are up in the higher register so what you're really looking for is volume available across the human frequency range I have the iPhone the iPhone 10 so this has a similar speaker layout to the note 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 it also spent more time above 80 DBA then the note series did 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 and adding volume back there impressive figures here from the iPhone 10 all right last up is the razor phone each of these speakers has its own app and I'm speculating that this should beat those devices based on my ears but let's go ahead and see what the science says here's the cool thing about this particular phone not only do you see it crack 100db a few times but you also see it live in the 90 Plus range and the high 90s across a wider spectrum 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 so the fact that it could have performance registering in frequency ranges that the other ones couldn't implies the quality of speaker and the quality of amplifier the surprising finding here is how good the iPhone 10 is as well gets pretty loud and sounds pretty good of course none of the other flagships are in the same neighborhood as the razer phone not like i expected them to be if you want the ultimate audio experience in a smart phone you're probably looking at the razer phone so there you have it for high-profile flagship smartphones tested using my handy little SPL meter if you guys enjoyed this type of test let me know by leaving a thumb down below subscribe for more videos like this and i'll catch you on the next one