Audio review for Poco X3 NFC - By DXOMARK - Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion

the famous website for camera benchmark and testing DXOMARK recently made a full professional Audio review for Poco X3 NFC , they performed a variety of objective tests and undertake more than 20 hours of perceptual evaluation under controlled lab conditions.
so here I'll share some major summaries from their article , and will leave a link for their full article at the end for more in depth details.
Test summary
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Considering the budget price of the Poco X3 NFC, its overall score of 63 is impressive, even if it means it’s an average audio performer. It scored higher than some much higher-priced smartphones, such as the Lenovo Legion Phone Pro, another gamer-centric model, which costs about twice as much.
In playback testing, our engineers found the treble precise, with good high-end extensions. Spatialization came in for praise, with good wideness, localizability, and distance performances. Our engineers noted few artifacts. As for audio playback drawbacks, there is a strong lack of bass, and the excess of high-mids produces nasal-sounding and metallic resonances. Balance seems to be shifted to the right of the device in when in landscape mode. Minimum volume is too low, to the point that dynamic content is barely hearable or simply not hearable at all. The lack of bass heavily hinders precision and punch.
As a recording device, the Poco X3 NFC produces average but consistent timbre performance in each use case. In the spatial attribute, it delivers good wideness. The recording loudness is also good in the memo app. And although there is some pumping and distortion on loud content, the device’s overall artifacts performance was fairly good. The signal-to-noise ratio is below average, with our engineers noting that background noise is very present and sounds unnatural because of the Poco X3 NFC’s midrange-focused and muffled rendering. The envelope is below average, and other than wideness, its spatial performances are not great. In the camera use cases, recording of loudness was below average; maximum sound level was average.
for Playback and Recording sub-scores closer look, check out the full article.
Conclusion
For a smartphone in this price range, the Poco X3 NFC turns in a solid all-round performance — nothing truly exceptional, but no big flaws either. It produces precise treble with good high-end extensions, and the spatial attribute is slightly above average, with good wideness, localizability, and distance performances. The device produces few artifacts. On the other hand, the lack of bass along with an excess of high-mids produces some unpleasant resonances. That lack of bass also dulls bass precision and punch. The minimum volume step is simply too low.
The device’s score as a recording device, while average, still lifts it above several more expensive models. Its timbre performance was average but consistent across the use cases. The Poco X3 NFC did a good job of recording loudness when using the memo app. It also produced fairly clean recordings, with few artifacts. On the negative side, the SNR was below average — background was overly present and unnatural-sounding because it was so midrange-focused. The dynamics performance was also slightly sub-par, with below-average envelope and spatial scores.
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for comparison between Poco X3 NFC overall audio test score with other devices, check out this link
surprisingly it beats good phones like Sony Xperia 1 ii , Huawei P40 Pro, Lenovo Legion Pro, and almost match others like LG V60 ThinQ , Samsung S10+, OP 7 Pro ..

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You can also check notebookcheck.net review where you can see that this phone has good frequency response in speakers. I believe them more than DXOmark

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Hi, in my humble opinion;
Sound deteriorated with update 04, rolled back to 03. Much better sound, Bass & balance.
Depends on which version they tested.??
S

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carl.13 said:
Hi, in my humble opinion;
Sound deteriorated with update 04, rolled back to 03. Much better sound, Bass & balance.
Depends on which version they tested.??
S
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They toned down the bass for the earpiece speaker since people (on the Xiaomi forums) were complaining about the back vibrating during speaker playback.
The DAC included in the 732G chip is very much cheap and to my ears, sounds inchoherent. Any good third party USB-C DAC will drastically improve the listening experience using the device.

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Who cares? Nobody expects Hi-Fi sound from a 2 cm^2 speaker. Use earphones.

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Hi, as it happens I care. One of the reasons I have this phone.
With all due respect, you don't know my own personal circumstances; I may have one hand, or no hands. Whereby ear phones are not practical.

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enban said:
Who cares? Nobody expects Hi-Fi sound from a 2 cm^2 speaker. Use earphones.
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Actually nobody cares. Phone speaker is not even made for listening to music. It's for calls.

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[QUOTE = "editheraven, post: 83975295, member: 5091845"]
In realtà non interessa a nessuno. L'altoparlante del telefono non è nemmeno fatto per ascoltare musica. È per le chiamate.
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ciao amico ho lo stesso problema con l'audio che altre persone sentono anche dietro la cover posteriore se abbasso il volume sai come risolvere? l'hai risolto? Grazie