Comment by tombert
1 year ago
Old phones definitely have a distinctive sound that I do like, but I haven't really noticed "bad" audio quality in phones?
If I call with Signal or Skype or something, usually the audio is pretty clear, and doesn't seem to crappy to me. Even "regular" phone service on my iPhone seems to be pretty clear to me.
You could argue that it's "too" clear I suppose, but I don't really think it's a bad thing personally.
Most of the times, videocalls sound too... stuffy for me. There's something off about the frequencies, I'm not sure if that's some kind of tight windowing and aggressive compression, or noise cancelling eating into signal, or both, but it's missing the high-order terms, so to speak.
(I've recently switched to using my headphones over audio jack again, and the problem persists, so it's not the Bluetooth headset profile - though in general, when HSP kicks in, the audio quality goes to the gutter.)