SPL Negative Reviews

SPL App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

SPL app received 8 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using SPL? Can you share your negative thoughts about spl?

SPL for Negative User Reviews

✓ Does not have the accuracy of professional SPL for tuning home theater systemsI compared it to a SPL from Radioshack and it does not even come close to being accurate. Specifically for tuning subwoofers it is off by 25db..SekharVersion: 0

✓ AmazingOh no! A disastrous update!!! They finally took the horrible, battery-draining background operation so-call "feature" out of RTA, but they put it into SPL. Now, when you exit this app in the conventional way, it keeps running and draining your battery!!! Why they think this is a good idea or should be the default operation is just beyond me. Please, please, make this behavior optional and default it to operate in the way that most iPhone apps do, to exit the app when you press the home button. ------ original review ------- I have recently had the opportunity to compare with a very calibrated instrument and was very favorably impressed. This thing works very well. I also checked my Radio Shack meter at the same time and it's good right around 1KHz which is where -- if you read its instructions -- it is calibrated. The Radio Shack SPL meter, by the way, while a bargain for the price and quite good for what it is, is not a good tool for tuning subwoofers at all. This iPhone ap, while better, still isn't the best for subs either with the built-in mic, but worked much better with an external. Also, this ap's A-weight filter is better than Radio Shack's. In conclusion, this ap is a bargain for the price and so handy to have with you. A+. My one suggested improvement: a logging mode which logs SPL at selectable intervals -- minutes and seconds -- and then can e-mail the log out in csv format with time and SPL reading..GollnickVersion: 5.3

✓ UI elements do not scale correctly on iPadI've found that UI elements do not scale correctly on iPad such as "74.5" would show up as "74..." for the peak dB value. This makes it unusable on iPad..N2LLCVersion: 3.8

✓ IPhone froze upDoes not work on the iPhone 4 (running is 4.2). It locked up and froze the phone and would not even power off! After 5 min. trying, the phone shut off.... But would not come back on! After another 5 min. my phone finally came back on, and I deleted the app. I would like my money back..Losing8Version: 0

✓ Ugh!The new appearance hurts my eyes. Please let me downgrade!.PeejayfixieVersion: 0

✓ EXCELLENT!I've only recently discovered that there are some brilliant and serious use applications on the Apple iTunes store which never get publicity in the favourites or hot lists. This is one of them. Really useful and from a company who seem to know their subject. UPDATE Since the last update to IOS4 this application now crashes far too frequently - freezes on opening then causes entire iPhone to crash. Pity, used to be excellent.......KW999Version: 2.5

✓ SPLBig battery drain.ArtsonicVersion: 3.4

✓ SPL App hangs when iPhone rings, otherwise coolI emailed Mr. Smith and got an instant reply (gee I luv that). Did as he suggested, deleted and redownloaded and installed the SPL APP. Still same issue. I did some testing and if my iPhone (mine is a 3GS iOS4.3) rings, the SPL app dB readings get hung and all you can do is reboot the phone to get SPL working again. Since I have provided a repeatable senerio to aggevate this bug I have not heard back from Mr. Smith. All I can hope is he is working on it. Seems thousands (he claims) are not having trouble. Do they get calls when using it? Are they on iOS4.3?? The App says tested with iOS4.2. Otherwise, the app is nice to use and will help me in my job of measuring paging volumes over industrial noise levels. In the end, I can't give it 5 stars with a repeatable bug that hangs the SPL App and no email reply that says I'm working on it and BTW thanks for the info. So was my support issue of 1 in a 1000+ treated as junk or is it being looked at? There has to be a first I figure and not everyone will call for support, so there are likely more than just me. At $8.99 (higher than average cost) I'd expect proffesional support (don't feel the comment that I'm the only one and no email back is a professional support). All I can hope for is a patched version shortly..BmP999Version: 2.5

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