92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France – March 09, 2021 – DxOMark, a well-known commercial website described as “an independent benchmark that scientifically assesses smartphones, lenses, and cameras,” posted that the Mi 10S scored 80 on their audio test. This score paved the way for Mi 10S to become the number one smartphone in the audio category.
Unknown to all, the former top 1 in the audio category was Asus ROG Phone 5, which has scored 79. There are two types of sub-scoring of DxOMark. Firstly, the reviewer conducts a playback test with five bases: Timbre, Dynamics, Spacial, Volume, and Artifacts. These five bases are also the bases for the second type of sub-scoring, which is the recording.
Let me also add the conclusion of pros and cons from DxOMark.
Playback
Pros
- Best-in-class timbre performance
- Good bass, which improves punch.
- Nearly perfect balance
- Very good attack performance
Cons
- Sound perceived too close to listener, impairing distance.
- Easy to obstruct speakers when playing games
- Minimum volume step is a bit low.
- At maximum volume, tonal balance is midrange focused — bass is lacking.
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Recording
Pros
- Great timbre performance, with voices especially well-rendered at nominal SPL.
- Great artifacts performance
- Great loudness of voices means good SNR on voice content.
- Good wideness and localizability in life video
Cons
- Dark tonal balance in high SPL scenarios
- The overall content is always compressed, even at nominal SPL, decreasing the envelope dynamic of the signal.
- Heavy compression impairs trebles and the envelope at high SPL, inducing some artifacts.
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And in case you’re interested how DxOMark elaborate how they scored the Mi 10S audio, you can click this link for more info.