The XPS’ speakers sounded significantly louder and fuller with the Waves app activated, and I found presets such as Rock and Pop to be useful for brightening their respective genres. The Dell XPS 15’s audio performance is amplified even further by the Waves Maxx Audio Pro technology and Waves professional tuning, as well as a variety of EQ presets made possible by the included companion app. And as present as Bridgers sounded, the XPS did an equally great job preserving the reverberating guitar plucks under her croons. When I jammed the somber acoustic rock of Phoebe Bridgers’ “Garden Song” on the XPS 15, the singer-songwriter’s voice was so lucid that it sounded like she was in the room with me. The bass was once again the highlight when I switched to the aggressive alternative rock of Dance Gavin Dance’s “Prisoner.” The massive wall of distorted guitars sat nicely against the high-pitched vocals of the songs chorus, while the cleaner, funkier guitar riffs in the verse also sounded bright and crisp. I noticed that the song would get a tiny bit distorted at maximum volume, but it sounded impressively full and clear just a few notches below the max. The moody, bouncy bass of Hayley Williams’ “Simmer” popped loudly and cleanly out of the XPS 15’s speakers, getting me to bop my head along instantly. The Dell XPS 15’s top-firing stereo speakers are some of the best I’ve heard on any laptop, filling my living room with lively, loud audio that was especially heavy on low-end. The touch screen on our Dell proved fluid and responsive, and I had no issues scrolling through web pages or pinching to zoom into pictures and documents. Dell’s notebook tops the MacBook Pro’s 113.9% as well as the Surface Laptop 3’s 101% rating. The XPS 15’s real-world color performance was backed up by our lab tests, as the laptop replicated an impressive 132.2% of the sRGB color gamut. That’s a bit brighter than the 16-inch MacBook Pro’s 429 nits and better than the Surface Laptop 3’s 380 nits. The XPS 15 gets plenty bright for work and play, registering an average brightness of 434.2 nits on our light meter. The rich, deep blacks on the XPS 15’s display made reading and editing a breeze, and made my Dell S2417DG gaming monitor look dull by comparison. With so much screen space, I was able to work comfortably in split-screen mode for hours at a time, bouncing between documents, videos, and Slack chats without having to zoom in on anything.
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