ESS Brings Music to Life in New Vivo Flagship Smartphone
New Xplay 5 Elite Smartphone Features Twin ES9028 SABRE HiFi DAC Design to Power Vivo HiFi 3.0

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Milpitas, California – ESS Technology, the industry leader in HiFi audio and analog design, today announced the Company’s ES9028 SABRE HiFi Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), implemented in a revolutionary twin DAC format, has been selected for Vivo’s new flagship smartphone – the Xplay 5 Elite. Vivo selected twin ES9028 SABRE DACs to power its HiFi 3.0 capabilities because of the ES9028’s superior dynamic range and award winning performance. Raising the bar for HiFi audio design in smartphones, the Xplay 5 Elite uses two separate ES9028 DACs - one DAC driving the left audio output and one driving the right audio output. This first in smartphone architecture follows the multi-DAC, multi-channel capabilities previously only available in high-end audiophile, component systems.



“The Vivo Xplay 5 Elite was designed to provide a true high-end audiophile experience on a smartphone, therefore we looked to the industry leader in audio. ESS SABRE DACs are renowned for consistently delivering a dramatically better listening experience and the SABRE name is synonymous with HiFi audio,” said Mr. Feng Lei, CMO and Vice President Worldwide for Vivo. “It was natural for us to extend our successful relationship with ESS by selecting twin ES9028 SABRE HiFi DACs for the Xplay 5 Elite.”

“It’s an honor to partner with Vivo – working together to grow awareness and adoption of HiFi audio on smartphones. Vivo has been extremely successful in evangelizing high-quality audio and bringing to market innovative smartphones that deliver an uncompromised audiophile experience,” said Dan Christman, ESS’s Chief Marketing Officer. “The twin DAC implementation in the Xplay 5 Elite is an brilliant example of Vivo’s ability to advance the mobile HiFi Audio experience and we look forward to extending our collaboration even further.”

About the ES9028 SABRE DAC
The ES9028 SABRE DAC is a high-performance 32-bit digital to analog converter and uses ESS’s patented 32-bit HyperStream architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator. It is the first SABRE DAC to use ESS’s new internal dual-DAC architecture to further enhance performance. It also delivers an unprecedented dynamic range (DNR) of up to 129dB and total harmonic distortion plus noise of -120dB (THD+N) – a technical performance level that will satisfy the most demanding audio enthusiasts while still delivering the superb sound experience SABRE products are known for.

About the Vivo Xplay 5 Elite
The Vivo Xplay 5 Elite is the first smartphone to implement a twin DAC architecture. It incorporates an unprecedented 6GB of RAM and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. The front of the phone is a dual-curved 5.43-inch Super AMOLED display with Quad HD resolution and it also features 128GB of internal storage. For image capture, it has a back facing 16MP Sony camera sensor with phase detection autofocus and a dual-tone LED flash. The Xplay 5 Elite also features a fingerprint sensor, 8MP front facing camera and a 3600mAH battery. The Vivo Xplay 5 Elite will be available on March 8th in China through Vivo’s ecommerce channels Tmall.com and JD.com.

About ESS Technology
For more than three decades ESS Technology has been on the cutting edge of audio technology. A privately held fabless semiconductor company, ESS Technology designs and markets high-performance analog and HiFi audio devices for mobile, consumer, automotive, and professional audiophile systems. The company was founded in 1984 and today ESS Technology is best known for its SABRE series of high-performance audio products. For more information visit http://www.esstech.com.

This post has been edited by wkkm007: Apr 26 2016, 12:12 AM

now give me ur money

as far that i know only two design win for es9028k2m, vivo xplay 5 and lg g5 hifi module. i still wondering what dac were used in htc 10?

phone type audiophile hardware is piece of crap

audiophiles are funny people.

i dont agree, it does make a difference or maybe because the generic design were too bad (especially on the amp section as the sound clipped on high volume). Even if generic dac were good enough, it always the cheap efficient amp design that spoil it, luckily there are phone manufacturer understand the need of better amp (e.g htc with htc 10)

This post has been edited by zerorating: Apr 26 2016, 01:05 AM

no point having a super super good amp if important parts r not are not shield properly
especially phones

u can have a good amp, but a super 1 n expecting super quality in phone, it is over exaggerate

they keyword here is 'good enough', not peasant level of good enough, but audio lover kind of level (not to extend of picky audiophile level)
a little bit of distortion noise doesnt hurt.

lel snake oil sellers

Onkyo DP-CMX1 Hi-Res Audio Smartphone hands on [english]

This is what I think the first hands on video worldwide of the Onkyo DP-CMX1 Hi-Res Audio Smartphone, shot at CES 2017!

The device features two DACs from ESS and dedicated amps for an absolute premium audio experience, featuring two headphone jacks, but also has a 5.0 inch 1080p IPS display, a Snapdragon 808 hexacore SoC from Qualcomm, 3GB RAM and 128 GB Flash storage, a 16 MP rear camera and an 8 MP front-facing camera.

Wow even faster then and Digital Audio Player "audiophile iPod" and soundcard for smartphone/DAC amp combo.
iBasso are using Pro version desktop, Vivo using latest upcomming but Q2M mobile version

iBasso DX200 and Oppo HA2SE
So far everyone else still using ES9018






This post has been edited by wkkm007: Feb 28 2017, 07:13 PM

in the end use wireless headphone also no point

Snake oil

Keep 'em coming and posted!!

Trust me, i read and appreciate your effort.



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