Sony gold-plates a Walkman for high cost, high quality sound

01 September 2016
Gold plated cables? Psh. Gold plate the whole music player!

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AnonD-375713, 01 Sep 2016Tech gibberish and farting on physics is common on Audiophi... moreI own nw-zx100 (cost usd700, Little brother to this model) since last week, I can tell you makes any phone and iPod sound like a tinny cheap cassette player, even with 160kp per sec mp3

Interesting fact, I and a mate tried a 2009 Walkman (nwz-x1050) and 2013 Walkman (nwz-f886) with 3 phones and 4 earphones with the same song and bitrate even compared same song with different bitrate

The 2009 Walkman with 192 kp per second sound better on Walkman than any of the phones z2, g2, s6, in fact so much better

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    • Anonymous
    • nHb
    • 01 Sep 2016

    Anonymous, 01 Sep 2016Seinheisser OrpheusStill a legend.

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      • Anonymous
      • LC8
      • 01 Sep 2016

      Seinheisser Orpheus

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        • AnonD-375713
        • Pkp
        • 01 Sep 2016

        Akinaro, 01 Sep 2016yes, because gold plating device will minimize magnetic int... moreTech gibberish and farting on physics is common on Audiophile community.
        What if I told you that people defend a CD edge cutter machine (around 10K dollars) like their own family, calling all kinds of feel arguments that it DOES help to improve the quality of CDs, by literally scrapping part of the discs edge out. No, I'm not kidding: http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/10/audiophile-stupidity-cd-lathe-improves-sound-quality/

        Read the comments, you'll have a nice laugh. "Close minded" and "Just because you can't hear" are hotkeys on the blind believer's keyboards.

        This, 384 kHz sample rates, and on the original product's site you can see one of the most amusing ones: the player has an upscaling feature on it, that - you're not reading wrong - "improves the quality of the original file, bringing back what was lost on recording".
        Fo real, it's on Sony's site. I'll give it to them that they nailed at making an audiofool oops audiophile marketing perfectly.
        The player is great, no questions asked. The gibberish said there tho is otherworldly.

          yes, because gold plating device will minimize magnetic interference...

          JESUS F CHRIST.... Who the heII got that idea and give it to Sony???

          Its like saying that painting glass using transparent coating will make you more prettier...

          I seriously cant believe that someone could beat Apple in technological gibberish that they provide when showing new device...

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            • t7X
            • 01 Sep 2016

            Now, this is what I'm talkin bout.

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              • AnonD-85136
              • 6PV
              • 01 Sep 2016

              Great

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                • Nobody
                • UD{
                • 01 Sep 2016

                did you seriously get offended by that? The writer is actually making the article fun by adding a little bit of figurative language. Grow up dude,

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 3SI
                  • 01 Sep 2016

                  This walkman looks like a little xperia phone

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                    • Pkp
                    • 01 Sep 2016

                    AsusTech, 01 Sep 2016did you really need to put the POOR PEOPLE VERSION tag on i... moreCause 1200 really is for poor, starving people right
                    that's just a joke yo, the entire article sounds a bit like it.

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                      • AsusTech
                      • UD{
                      • 01 Sep 2016

                      did you really need to put the POOR PEOPLE VERSION tag on it? nice journalism, what an etiquette

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                        • 9A1
                        • 01 Sep 2016

                        Where to get media files for making use of all the ultra high end tech?

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                          • AnonD-375713
                          • Pkp
                          • 01 Sep 2016

                          so much "because yes" on this device... Well, gold lovers rejoice. What impresses me is the comparably huge speakers of the headphones, demn 70mm, mine have ~50mm ones and they have a sonic stage like you were inside the source/room where the sound is produced, can barely imagine what 70mm drivers do there. That's bigger than some desk speakers in fact.

                          Some factual info tho (I bet the mistakes were only for the trolling purpose tho): no idea why the chassis needs to have better contact resistance, no, gold doesn't conduct better than copper, in fact worse, it's used only to prevent oxidization on the contacts, not better contact resistance, Super Audio CD actually does sound worse than normal CD on the upper frequency range, it only sounds better at the lower end ~4 kHz, the pulse density modulation scheme is to blame here, making it 4x the sample rate is just wasting space while you could go PCM 96 kHz and have actually better quality on the full spectrum, and all the 384kHz 32 bit is bull

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                            • DXB
                            • Hx1
                            • 01 Sep 2016

                            7700USD to listen to music?

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                              • AnonD-151913
                              • pT2
                              • 01 Sep 2016

                              Nice but inaccessible.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • t}E
                                • 01 Sep 2016

                                Eh, so cheap. I don't like cheap things.

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