Sounds more than good enough to me.
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This is on OS 1.1.5.
Here is a WAV file. First is the original digital track, second (middle) is recorded from iPad, and third is recorded from Mudita Pure.
Here is a spectrogram visualization of the same three versions.
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So everyone who thinks that sounds good enough can draw a sigh of relief and just enjoy your new phones.
Me with my oversensitive baby ears, Iāve still got a problem.
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@sandra hereās my test of the same song:
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The speaker sounds okay to me, didnāt expect anything crazy good. I may think differently in person.
What Iām more worried about at this point is how the phone calls sound on both ends.
I also wasnāt aware of how many updates were going to be needed right off the bat. I donāt have internet at my home and didnāt expect to immediately have to update the phone so it works properly.
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Thanks for that. Some concern, but not crazy since most phones donāt have a great HiFi audio either way.
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Iām glad you and many others think itās OK. Itās best if people hear for themselves since theyāll have to decide for themselves. 
Iām glad I could get this recording comparison up so quickly.
And I donāt want anyone to cancel their orders, or worse, to hassle with refunds and sending back. I want people to have phones they love.
As for me, I amā¦ maybe a little bit synaesthetic. Iām weird about this stuff. I couldnāt even finish Sharazā and Urszulaās videos, and finishing my own recording was a challenge too. I have selected another song for my ring tone that isnāt as clippy and overdriven.
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Hello, I am patiently waiting the arrival of my phone. Is there really no T9?
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I appreciate you all taking the time to post a video of what the phone sounds like.
To me from what I hear, it sounds tinny. It sounds like a cheap speaker. Maybe it is just the song selection. Can someone play a rock song on this thing instead of a sting guitar? Maybe some Def Leopard or Green Day or what ever.
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@greymoon Hereās Basket Case 
Brings me back to HS
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Hi!
To be honest - right now we donāt have T9 for a few reasons. One of them is the high complexity of implementation. But donāt hang your head in sorrow - research about it is on our roadmap!
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I did some tinkering with EQ in the Pure yesterday, it might sound promising 
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Weāre constantly working on fixing any issues and if youāll find anything that bothers you when you will have your Pure - feel free to create an issue on GitHub. We are trying to address every one issue and take a deeper look into it.
I know @sandra - yours are also being viewed, those are not ignored - We just need a little bit of time as we actually have a lot of work. But a little sneak peak - community handling should be improved in the nearest future
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Thank you for your response.
I think Iām just having a bit of anxiety switching to a non smart phone for the first time in a long time.
Thank yāall for being so good with your communication and commitment.
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@cazz If youāre having some anxiety about switching, try dumbing down your smart phone little by little- Hereās an article on how to do it:
Donāt do it all at once- do one thing every few days & get used it. I did it over a year ago & it really prepares you for making Mudita Pure, your main driver.
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Thanks for all the videos! Sounds like normal phone speakers to me - not especially good quality, but not worse then other phone speakers. Still waiting for more reviews
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Basket Case - Good choice. The phone still sounds tinny, but maybe it is because I am not hearing the phone in person. Is this a phone you can listen to music on? or would it sound better via a bluetooth speaker? It sort of reminds me of listening to tunes on my old tape recorder.
I am thinking that if we had a way to adjust bass, treble, etc the sound might be improved. I doubt proper controls will be added to the phone, but maybe in a future software update the developers might make some tweeks to the sound adjustment.
Probably about 18 to 20 years ago I used to have a music player on my computer called Win Amp and their equalizer had many different pre-sets and you could play around and change them to get the sound you most enjoyed. I found a webpage with all the old Win Amp presets. I will leave a link to the page and maybe Muditaās tech department can use this information to get the sound to where it should be.
https://github.com/eladkarako/Winamp-Original-Presets
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@greymoon In person, itās pretty loud. I actually use it on speaker when I listen to audiobooks while Iām doing things in the kitchen
Is there any other person who got the mudita pure already (excluded Sandra and mudita employees)? Whatās your opinion? How was the call quality? Is it better after newest update?
BTW I was super early backer on kickstarter (81) and I still patiently waiting for delivery info 
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i donāt really do reviews but iāll write my thoughts hereā¦
iām not meaning to discredit sandraās review either, but its a good springboard for me to address some of the issues she had.
also, one other thing to noteā¦i have been on a punkt phone for 6 years now, the mp01, and now currently the mp02.
i supported the pure within 5 minutes of the campaign, but that was when the punkt mp02 was so buggy, it was hardly usable.
since then, punkt has made massive strides with software updates, that its nearly flawless now. probably wouldnāt desire a new phone anymoreā¦
however, i am still thrilled i supported mudita with the pure. here are my initial thoughts, and drawing some comparisons to the mp02.
ALSO also, i have only been using the phone for a day basically, and if there are ways to fix certain things i address through options or settings that i missed, someone please let me know!
CONS:
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iāll start by giving my biggest gripe. the squeaky loud creak sound when hitting the down arrow navigation button gets very obnoxious. it sounds like the housing is too tight and pulling against that button. makes me feel like the āclickā feeling when you press it, wonāt last. think of turning your windshield wipers on when its not wet outside and your wipers are squeaking against your windshieldā¦thatās what it sounds like.
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had problem with phone recognizing my SIM card, and initially phone wouldnāt operate with SIM card installed. It would just be on an infinite crash loop. I tried my wifeās SIM and it worked. Went to the T-Mobile store and got a new SIM card, and then the phone started working properly. not sure why it couldnāt read my SIM, but no biggie.
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texting (as much as i can tell now) defaults to ABC (caps) which is kind of annoying. every time i text, i have to change it to lower case.
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have had some issues with texting through mudita centerā¦it appears my messages send, but when i look at my messages on the pure, it will say they didnāt send, and ill need to resend them through the phone. overall, whether on the phone or the mudita center, if a message fails to send, it takes a while to find out. there should be confirmation the message sent for sure.
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editing contacts doesnāt allow dashes between numbers (ex. 818-888-0000). it says its the wrong format. this is kind of annoying because when i imported my contacts, they all have dashes. if i make any edit to the contact entry, such as editing the name, or entering more information, it wonāt allow me to save the changes unless i delete the dashes. it appears i dont HAVE to edit out the dashes though to be able to use the contactsā¦it just flags you if you happen to edit the contacts.
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would be nice to be able to turn the screen completely off. donāt really like always having a display on.
NEUTRAL (what i expected):
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slightly slow response, really ONLY due to e-ink technology. its 20 times better than the light phone 2 for sure. didnāt expect it to be much quicker than it is, and if you desire faster response, e-ink is probably not for you.
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the overall feel and build of the phone is a little plastic-y for me. the punkt mp02 is much nicer as far as weight, and how the buttons feel (mp02 feels like a well oiled machine).
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pretty large in size in comparison to the mp02 (not unexpected from all the pictures mudita has posted though, itās exactly as it has been presented)
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i agree with sandra about long sms tones, there could be some shorter, single tone sounds for messages.
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need to a guide to figure out tethering. its not showing up in my normal wifi networks. seems initial setup may be a little more complicated for the wired tethering.
PROS:
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totally easy, fast, and straight forward set up (aside from my SIM issue)
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layout of buttons are great! i think the center button command as ādoing the big thingā is exactly right, and didnāt take any getting used to for me.
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importing my contacts was flawless.
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old school āabcā texting works fine. i am OK with no predictive texting. with a simple phone, sometimes predictive texting can take more time than you think. the mp02 has so many wrong predictions and bad grammar that i end up spending way more time fixing the message than i save by using predictive text. however i always try it because sometimes it IS faster! iād rather it just not be a temptation to use, unless its nearly perfect.
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sound quality is totally fine for me. while it might be a tiny bit high in the treble and stuff, it is loud enough. thatās what i care about most. the mp02 is sometimes too quiet, although its a little warmer. i think the sound quality of conversations is as expected. the speaker is really loud too. it could benefit from some EQ changes, but not necessary.
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font and text is not too small for me, and easy to read.
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buttons are not too small, and i donāt find myself hitting the wrong button often at all.
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there are little UX/UI things that i think are great, and you can tell the team put a lot of thought into specific things. such asā¦
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when pressing the menu, the default selection is on the ācontactsā, which is right for me.
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ease of adding new contacts.
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being able to āmark as unreadā on text message threads, so you can read it, and then mark as unread if its a message you need to get back to later, and donāt want to forget about it.
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love the do not disturb/3 selection slider on the side. love that you can set the middle spot to allow for āfavoriteā contacts to interrupt you only. perfect for napping when on call for work, and donāt want to be bothered by anyone but the boss.
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the rings and tones are great overall.
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you can pick different alarm tones, which is nice (punkt mp02 only has 1 alarm sound-a rooster crowing, which is jarring)
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you can set how long the snooze is, which is sooo nice. the mp02 snooze defaults to 5 minutes only, and canāt be changedā¦i prefer 10 minutes.
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flashlight wasnāt necessary, but super nice to have and useful!
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ādark modeā is a really nice option. its basically inverted black and white. makes the phone look better in my opinion but there is more screen bleed from the e-ink in dark mode, however itās in beta mode and may get even better!
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the buttonās backlight is nice
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the 3.5mm headphone jack, allowing to use all types of headphones/headsets
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had no problem with speaker placement at all
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glad there arenāt emojis - can do an oldschool heart ā <3
this is all i can think of for now. iād say overall i am very pleased with it, and its almost exactly as expected. for this initial roll out, and basically the first software version, i am super impressed with how nice it is to use.
im sure ill run into some buggy things over time, but like i said i am impressed so far, and im confident future software updates will smooth everything out.
if only that down arrow didnāt squeak like crazyā¦
ps. if anyone has specific questions i didnāt addressā¦let me know!
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