Sony Xperia 5 IV Audio Review

[PeteL]

Apple has USB Dongle that clean for CD quality and enough power.

There is review of one on ASR.

That works with Android?

 

[Eldus]

That works with Android?

The USB C one that was made for the IPad Pro works great.

 

[NiagaraPete]

my enterprise class Wifi (Ubiquiti Unifi)

All I can say is good choice. About the phone not so much

 

[Ted G]

I cycle through a lot of phones. I use mostly use Bluetooth ear buds, WiiM streamer or wired through car stereo. iPhone 13 Pro, great camera and battery life. Google Pixel, great camera, clean updated android. Samsung, great camera, lots of crapware.

 

[Cars-N-Cans]

Like allowing you to carry guns or not having health insurance if you choose to?

Sometimes nanny state regulations are put in place to curb litigation, and therefore allow companies to make and sell products rather than spend time in the courtroom. So in many cases, the “nanny state” flows from capitalism, not socialism.

Not even a bated hook, yet so many people chomping away. It’s about neither of those things. I thought my post immediately below that would have made it clear. Irrespective of the reasons why, it’s irritating to have someone decide for you, and pretty much hard-code it into the device. Jeez…

Edit: And this doesn’t stop with electronics. In the news not too long ago was the whole “kill switch” thing for cars, but few know that the legislation is not strictly to impliment it, as I know for a fact that at least in some domestic cars for quite some time now that have some form of cell network connectivity the functionality is already there. They click a button for whatever reason, and your car is bricked remotely until the agent decides it can work again. In GMs, they have had a “flight data recorder“ in some ECUs going back to the early 2000’s that records vehicle telemetry, and in the event of a crash saves it all to the flash for later retrieval. From my memory of reversing a binary from one, it saves a few frames, enough to track the accident, and tattle on you. You have surprisingly little control over some of your devices, now.

Its not about the tired, old ”its not socialism” schtick, it’s about literally not having control over your possessions, and it will only get worse. They are owned by someone else, and you just ”lease” them even though you purchased them yourself. Apple is the worst offender in many cases, but there are many other companies across the globe that do this. Think BMW and their desire for subscription based features. If it doesn’t at least bother you a little...

As far as the No-fun volume setting, it’s basically saying you are too stupid to think for yourself, too money-hungry lawsuit happy when you screw up, and too piss-poor of a parent to be relied upon to implement any parental controls, so they will do it for you.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

is this a good time to bring up USBaudioplayerpro app.
can you turn on LDAC in the programmer's settings?
ps i will sell you my Samsung 8 for 1 million dollars.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

BTW, if someone wants to buy this for what I paid for it, I am happy to sell it to you given the higher retail cost now.

come on cut a guy a break considering the review. your lucky to get out of this deal with your shirt

 

[amirm]

@amirm : "I wanted a phone with analog out, OLED high-resolution display, wireless charging and 5G". This is a big waste of ressources done by millions and millions of consumers on a daily basis. Its efficiency is by 1/3 lower than wired charging, i.e. 1/3 of the dispatched energy gets lost. As Greta Th. would say, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CHARGE WIRELESS!!

I am not millions of people. It is just one of me. We live in an area where we have heat on about 8 to 9 months out of the year. So no heat generated goes to waste. It heats up the house. The other millions are situated differently although where Greta lives, is similar to our case.

Now, the alternative charging solution is one of the reasons I need to upgrade my phone. The USB-C port on my Samsung phone has become flakey and either accepts no charge, or tiny amount. Dumping the phone for this reason will cost the planet a lot more than power loss of the wireless charger. Having an open port in a device that you keep putting in your pocket full of lint and such, and friction of plugging/unplugging the charger cord is a bad idea to base your solutions.

 

[amirm]

come on cut a guy a break considering the review. your lucky to get out of this deal with your shirt

To be clear, I have return privileges with Amazon until end of this month so I am good. I just thought someone may want to buy it at lower than retail rather than me returning it.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

I have gone through all of this. You can't find a phone available in US that has headphone jack, wireless charging and 5G. Leaving the other two out doesn't make them flagship. Asus also is not available in US (I think).

ok you did not hear this from me but someone i know works for boeing and is working on the 5 g problem... a wink and a nod said the the 5 g shows up but its not real

 

[Hipster Doofus]

I am not millions of people. It is just one of me. We live in an area where we have heat on about 8 to 9 months out of the year. So no heat generated goes to waste. It heats up the house. The other millions are situated differently although where Greta lives, is similar to our case.

Now, the alternative charging solution is one of the reasons I need to upgrade my phone. The USB-C port on my Samsung phone has become flakey and either accepts no charge, or tiny amount. Dumping the phone for this reason will cost the planet a lot more than power loss of the wireless charger. Having an open port in a device that you keep putting in your pocket full of lint and such, and friction of plugging/unplugging the charger cord is a bad idea to base your solutions.

i worked in hospitals in the northwest and the head of building Maintenace would laugh at all the retro fitting of lights in the building. the heat of the old lights would offset heating cost.

 

[SoundsGood2Me]

Thanks Amirim! I too had to go backwards in performance just to get a headphone jack, the Galaxy A52, and I agree the 21:9 ratio is infuriatingly dumb. The world finally settled on 16:9, 21:9 is as stupid as the constant updates I get so my emojis can dance. I honestly believe they do that because you can easily differentiate someone with an old phone, pressuring them to upgrade.

Thanks for sharing, keep up the Good Work!

 

[amirm]

ok you did not hear this from me but someone i know works for boeing and is working on the 5 g problem... a wink and a nod said the the 5 g shows up but its not real

Yeh, the whole 5G thing is a mess. They have a single name for a protocol and tons of different carriers to deliver it. I remember AT&T not being ready for 4G but lighting up the indicator regardless. Someone suggested Samsung S10 5G. I looked into that and it only supports high band 5G (millimeter wave). That only works in super dense areas so useless for me. Verizon has since deployed mid and low band 5G but of course, there is no coverage map of what is what. And digging into phone specs for such support is a big pain.

Despite all this, I figured I should buy a 5G phone seeing how I keep my phones for such long time.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Yeh, the whole 5G thing is a mess. They have a single name for a protocol and tons of different carriers to deliver it. I remember AT&T not being ready for 4G but lighting up the indicator regardless. Someone suggested Samsung S10 5G. I looked into that and it only supports high band 5G (millimeter wave). That only works in super dense areas so useless for me. Verizon has since deployed mid and low band 5G but of course, there is no coverage map of what is what. And digging into phone specs for such support is a big pain.

Despite all this, I figured I should buy a 5G phone seeing how I keep my phones for such long time.

a cheap tower computer is less expensive so put one in every room and just resolve yourself to listening to less than perfect when on the go.

 

[MZKM]

Every time I see something like that, can't help but makes me think of how much of a bunch of misfit weirdos us audiophiles are. Truth is, and the market trends are very clear, at least 95% of music lovers are totally, fully satisfied with listening trough a Bluetooth connection and in in the vast majority, lower bit rates ones. And many of those are very passionate about music, many spend way more time than me listening to music, love their music. Can they all be missing out that much? What are we chasing really? does this obsession to go get this very last bit of extra fidelity actually is a real benefit in actual enjoyment, ore are we just at a point where it's about well if I really really concentrate and do very critical listening I am able to detect a slight hint that my listening has less distortion than yours, kinda thing, but if you just sit back and enjoy, the music effectively sounds just as good and we are just biased into thinking we get something significantly better?

I’m a high school teacher. Kids know I’m into audio and sometimes ask about headphones to get; they won’t touch anything unless it is wireless and has ANC. >80% have AirPods anyway (I think Apple claimed they are now the #1 selling headphone in the world?).

 

[TonyJZX]

i have a 5g phone but its still early days where i am

not every tower has 5g and not every carrier has 5g and to have 5g you have to pay extra for it

and as of right now the speed increase isnt a big deal and the base tower still pulls from the same data 'pool' as current 3/4g users

it'll be a thing in 3-5yrs but will i still have the same 5g phone by then????

like many people here I also put an emphasis on the 3.5mm 'legacy' port but with the proliferation and low price and high reliabilty and quality of BT headsets I dont bother any more

peoeple wear airpods or the like or the jogging string neck earpieces all day at work and theyre ok with it

you can also literally charge once a week on some devices

 

[MZKM]

All I can say is good choice. About the phone not so much

My home’s original owner sadly didn’t have Ethernet run in the walls when it was built in 2001 (I do have phone jacks all over ). I tried to make it work with 2 Ubiquiti AP’s on the top floor, but I still has some dead spaces and some Smart lights outside had spotty coverage. Recently switched it out for a ~$100 3-pack of TP-Link Deco mesh units and it works amazingly (2 on top floor and 1 on bottom).

 

[Labjr]

No phone should cost $1,000 these days. I have to give a poor rating. Maybe you should have given it a great review until you sold the phone?

 

[TonyJZX]

i am reminded about that $1,000 phone when noted basketball team owner and sometimes Microsoft spruiker Steve Ballmer spoke about Apple's poor business decisons...

also this video was captured by Microsoft Lumia

 

[amirm]

i am reminded about that $1,000 phone when noted basketball team owner and sometimes Microsoft spruiker Steve Ballmer spoke about Apple's poor business decisons...

also this video was captured by Microsoft Lumia

Steve was not a hardware or entertainment guy and got all of this catastrophically wrong. The beginning of end was when he decided the Xbox group should be in charge of our strategy there leading to disasters like Zune player and such. The Xbox people only knew and cared about gaming yet were arrogant enough to think they could do anything, including taking on Apple. The result was total failure as you know.

I always liked Steve as head of sales. But as CEO of the company he could not fill the shoes of Bill. Bill didn't know it all either but was a great learner and was good at seeing the future. Once Bill decided to retire to go run his charity, all of this came crashing down.

Indeed, in company meetings Steve would say that Apple's entire business was negligible compared to us. And focus the phone business on enterprise as if people were going to carry a consumer phone and enterprise phone.

The whole thing led to me leading the company a couple of years later.