LG’s G6 will get a 32-bit quad-dac just like V20

LG’s upcoming G6 smartphone will get a 32-bit quad-dac from the company ESS for the audio processing. This is followed by the high-end device, which will be introduced at the end of this month by the Korean manufacturer, the V20 from last year.

LG has confirmed the arrival of the dac to the still unannounced G6 on its Korean site. The V20 that LG announced last September was the first smartphone with a 32-bit quad-dac. It was probably not four dacs in one, although the name suggests that. For example, it is more likely that the output of several sub-dacs, or channels within the dac, will be combined. In that case, the four output channels are added together.

Since noise is random and therefore does not in principle occur on two different channels at the same time, this quad-dac architecture results in less dB of noise due to the accumulation. However, ESS Audio and LG do not specifically discuss the architecture of this or the new dac. The G6 does not seem to get the same chip as the V20: the ES9218. LG speaks of a new dac. This should produce less noise than regular dacs and the chip could distribute the audio processing for left and right channels over the four dacs, which according to LG leads to a ‘fine tuning of the balance’.

More and more details are coming out of the G6, the high-end device that LG will unveil at the end of this month during the MWC in Barcelona. Rumors previously spoke of a smartphone with a 5.7″ screen and a resolution of 2880×1440 pixels, and therefore with a striking aspect ratio of 2:1. The smartphone is said to be made of glass and metal, and about a Snapdragon 821-soc of Qualcomm possess.