What did Apple actually invent?

[CaptainRaiden]

I was being sarcastic about your inability to accept other peoples' opinions or personal choices as being legitimate.

My main gripe is and always has been Apple's ridiculous markup. People can buy whatever they want.

I'm with Dave B on this, I fail to see how anything with an MP3 or AAC suffix and sound quality can be put in the same sentence with a straight face, especially with non-enclosed headphones.

Hey, I agree with Dave B as well. People can't even tell the difference between lossless and lossy, FLAC and MP3 on the highest of high end sound processing hardware. But Pino's ears are definitely telling him something else. I even mentioned in my retort to him in the previous page that all smartphones will sound pretty much the same, unless they have a discreet sound chip. And buying a smartphone for its sound is like -- I don't even know what example to use!

It is interesting to see how you conclude that if an Apple and a Samsung have a similar architecture and components that it stands to reason that the Samsung must either be equal to or better than the Apple. Very rational thinking process there!

I assumed since Samsung fabricate the systems-on-a-chip processors for Apple, they are quite well versed with what kind of architecture Apple uses, and can surely do slightly better? They already did better in the graphics arena with the Galaxy S2, which again ran a processor and GPU unit built around similar ARM architecture, but beat the iPhone 4S when it came to playing high end games or streaming movies on a bigger screen, running a supposedly "slower" and glitchy Android OS. It stands to reason that they could surely do better with the sound chip too? And by better I mean maybe 5% better.

You can check up on audiophiles over the internet talking about the original Galaxy S' DAC to be the best in business still when it comes to playing music. That again is software based, so it can only go so far.

But that's just opinion. Fact is when it comes to listening to MP3 or even FLAC on smartphones, it's purely down to personal preference, and I'm aware of that. But claiming that the iPhone's sound is best in the market is quite far fetched.