As a former music producer, the stock speaker sound on the Fairphone feels unedited.
I fixed it in 5 minutes with the attached EQ curve on wavelet. Other users on Reddit independently reached the exact same settings to correct the hardware raw output.
What is stopping you from implementing this tuning natively at the DSP level? It’s a night and day difference. It would make the out-of-the-box experience much more professional without needing background apps.
thanks! As an audio development engineer (not with Fairphone) I appreciate your post a lot. You are not alone, see this thread: Speaker Quality
Just a question, as I don’t have a FP6: I would be surprised if the speaker physically has any output below maybe 300 Hz or so. Therefore I assume that the FP developers implemented a highpass filter in that range, primarily for speaker protection.
Is it therefore really meaningful to strongly boost frequency bands way below that limit, such as 63Hz? I would not expect that this makes a positive difference, but rather that you lose dynamic range and loudness in the digital domain, the amp, or the speaker, by pumping in low frequency energy that is way outside the speaker’s spec.
Other than that, it might be that the speaker frequency response has been optimized for speech intelligibility and/or for energy efficiency and not for music (it’s still a cell phone )
Brilliant solution that I have now implemented (with some help from my son). It made a real improvement to the sound quality. As a keen listener of audio programs on radio, I am now enjoying better speech tones.
I sincerely hope FP developers follow your advice and implement this as ‘standard’. Even then, I will keep the wavelet app for different profiles for music and speech.
I have contacted fairphone, but have approached it as a hardware problem, can’t seem to come through to the software devs. It has taken absolute ages to get a reply as well, though they are complete.
My guess is the OP was using the free wavelet app where you can do this.
But i achieved similar improvements with the in app equalizer of Deezer music… the only app I listen to music with… for other uses like the phone, the base settings are fine for me
I’ve tried this on an FP6, too. I can confirm that the sound quality gets better by that but the maximum loudness suffers from that in radio plays which however is needed if you listen to it in a not completely silent environment. I guess that’s due to the negative values in the middles and thus it’s impossible to do something about that?
Why not twiddle (adjust) the settings to suit you? The numbers given by the OP are not absolute. ‘Wavelet’ allows you to adjust these to fit your requirements. (P.S. I confirm that I have noticed a decrease is overall volume, with the specified values.)
I noticed also the decrease in volume, so I used the “Limiter” option and increased the post-gain to +5db +(the maximum) it allows to increase the overall volume. To avoid some saturation, I used some compression settings so the speakers do not sound struggling anymore at high volume !
You can follow my settings, it definitely helped and I feel no problem anymore at all since !
It is ! Even though it’s not the best, you can use the wavelet limiter and add a post-gain of +5dB here are my personal settings so the sounds don’t saturated at high volume also.
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here are my personal settings so the sounds don’t saturated at high volume also.