No idea, maybe M0N might have some insight into that. It’s not as good sounding as my d50+atom, but it is still pretty great sounding. My guess is that there are way better implentations out there for dacs, but this is currently the best one for phones. It even runs my aeolus decent with a lot of headroom to go up in volume.
It’s not really a quad dac, it’s more like a marketing term. Ya know AMD’s Bulldozer chips like their FX cpu? They would claim to have 8 cores, but in reality only have 4 physical cores, the whole quad dac thing is similar. The LG phones just have a good dac with good implementation, the whole quad dac think is just marketing
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I’m with zaphain, honestly I have the v30 and from what I hear too the dac dosent sound much better if at all with every generation. So if you upgrade it probably will be real minimal or no difference. Only if u need a new phone would I recommend upgrading
By moving to the v30 and above, you also miss out on the cool features of the v20 like the easily removable and swappable battery, 2ndary screen, ir blaster, fm tuner, and more (I think the battery one would be the best thing on there at this point imo, you can keep batteries charged with you and swap them out for an instant charge
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True, alot of people haven’t bought one after the v20 because of how useful and convenient it is to have the swappable battery
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Agreed, thats why I haven’t upgraded, the phone basically checked all my boxes and continues to, but was just curious to make sure since prices on the newer models are cheap af atm from what I can tell.
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So the new phones are faster, but the v20 is still fairly quick
Oh yea, no complaints, I’m honestly gonna try to pick up a second one to have a fresh start as just a phone, and clean house and use my current one as just a music player. Having a spare is not a bad idea at this point since you can get crazy good replacement batteries for them super cheap. Also the v20 is like 120$ so yea not complaining about the cost either. 
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I had a v20 and now have a v30+ and I honestly miss the v20 lol
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I love my V30 and have had it for two years. The V30 was the first, and last, V series phone to be sold in Canada. I have no urge to upgrade to anything until it breaks.
I was a Samsung whore for more than 10 years. Then I heard about the V10. And also about it bricking. Then the V20 was said to be even better, but still bricked. Then the V30 was brought to Canada and you didn’t hear about bricking much.
It is rarely my DAP, but works great when called upon.
I have the V20 but i lost it for a while and was looking at the new ones. they got a V60 coming and the audio features the new ones have sound interesting. Like DTS surround sound.
But when i bought my V20 it had he best processor around. I do everything with it including gaming and it handles everything no problem. Ive never had a problem with it till the battery started crapping out on me.
It would tell me its full then i would unplug it and it read 80%. It would die a lot faster than it used to. So i bought a new battery for it on Amazon for 20$ and its works like new again lol.
Its jacked that they make it so hard to change the battery on new phones. like they want you to buy a new one the bastards.
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Sounds like balanced signal? Like…
Rightfully so. The fact the FPU (also known as “math coprocessor”) can act as two 128 bit or one 256 bit unit… I am off topic as it gets, aren’t I?
I was just trying to keep it simple, not further complicate it lol
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I just bought a replacement V20. I had broken the 1st ones screen for the 3 time. Easy $40 replacement… This time the bottom microphone stopped working. Rather then fix it, I bought the replacement phone for $100. I’ll use the 1st one for parts or play with rooting (and hopefully keep the Quad Dac functioning). There are too many audio witch doctors out there claiming that Viper is better the the QD and it is not needed. Bwaaa-Haaaa. This phone, it’s audio, it’s replaceable battery, it’s camera, it’s ability to record live music in stereo at 24\192, it’s 2TB SD card slot make every other phone look like a broken etch-a-sketch.
If the V60, has 10,000 lion battery, can record in 5.1, take 3D pictures, has AR and 5G with 1Gbps speeds, I might consider upgrading (as long as it has a 3.5mm jack 8*).
Fight me you IOS, short yellow bus riders!
apple is the wrong route to go if you care about audio IMO
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Apple is the wrong route to go if you value anything lol
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I mean the resale value and software updates are great in the long run
Are there still new batteries for the v20 being sold? I’ve been wanting to swap back to the v20 but I need a new battery and I don’t wanna get a crappy one
I got this one and its worked great for 6 months:
Ehhh not terrible I guess. Maybe I’ll give that a shot.