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Has anyone reverse-engineered the Galaxy S10 DSP?

april7

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My favourite device for listening to synth-based music is a Galaxy S10e as the sound is just so much better on it than anything else. The bass is much punchier, the soundstage is more immersive and less center-front oriented, and quieter elements of tracks seem to be brought up a bit. I don't have the EQ, Dolby Atmos, Adapt sound or any other similar settings enabled, so it likely has a hard coded DSP.

Has anyone with the equipment and skills to do so managed to reverse engineer this DSP so I can get this unique sound on other devices?

I know that wanting a coloured sound goes against the spirit of this forum, but I like to use the audio devices that sound best to my ears, with measurements being a visual way to see what I'm hearing specifically and make buying decisions, and everything that a DSP does should be measureable, unlike things such as the soundstage of a pair of headphones which we don't have a reliable way to measure yet.
 
Galaxy S10e
There are at least two completely different devices with that name. One is based on the Exynos SoC, the other is based on the Snapdragon SoC, each with its own audio chain. Which is yours?

For my experience, my Galaxy S10 (Snapdragon) sounds good (albeit not very high in output level), but not noticeably different from any other good-measuring device. There is nothing to suggest any kind of DSP that alters the FR is active. There are some measurements on the net, and they don't show anything special, either, other than Exynos having much more THD than Snapdragon.
 
There are at least two completely different devices with that name. One is based on the Exynos SoC, the other is based on the Snapdragon SoC, each with its own audio chain. Which is yours?

For my experience, my Galaxy S10 (Snapdragon) sounds good (albeit not very high in output level), but not noticeably different from any other good-measuring device. There is nothing to suggest any kind of DSP that alters the FR is active. There are some measurements on the net, and they don't show anything special, either, other than Exynos having much more THD than Snapdragon.
It's the Exynos varient.
 
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