Overall, it’s a little surprising to see the older iPhone XS Max beat more recent flagship devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ and Apple’s own iPhone 11 Pro Max, and that it is surpassed only by the Huawei Mate 20 X.
Good overall playback performance; Excellent for timbre; volume; and spatial; Flat frequency response; good timbre rendering; and good average loudness; Good dynamics with a decent signal-to-noise ratio and good shape to envelope; Good overall spatial performance; Recorded audio sounds natural with...
Attack; and bass scores are low in comparison to more recent devices; Lack of treble; Localizability needs some improvement; Quality of memo recording could be improved