This is a pretty good deal for the silver version. Should be lowest price ever.
Great DAC for the price and the battery life is excellent.
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kicsrepins
20 Mar 17#38
Try the Cowon Plenue D. I use it with my SE846 and to my ears it is audio heaven.
Copperface
20 Mar 17#37
The NWZ As are not Android.....they are Linux based as Sat555 says.
morrig
20 Mar 17#36
It does not work with this model which is Android based not Linux which the hack tool does.
dessala
20 Mar 17#35
They started testing Spotify HIFI. A few lucky ones have access to it:)
wakkaday
20 Mar 17#34
It will be soon but any other streaming services which could download the tracks playlist to the device. I think that will be more future proof for these devices.
Carl1892
20 Mar 17#30
I didn't realise it could go up to 200GB. I bought this almost 2 years ago with a 128GB card, which I've almost filled, and was sure it said 128GB was the max. So does yours work fine with the 200GB then?
Copperface to Carl1892
20 Mar 171#33
Yes.
Username57
19 Mar 171#12
I was thinking of purchasing this a long time ago, but the volume limit put me off. Shame as i think its designed really well. I will stick with the superior NWZ-A818.
sat555 to Username57
19 Mar 17#20
There's a hack to beat the volume limit on Sony players available now.
You can switch it off under AVLS in Common Settings. However, always worth using an amp anyway.
hobsgrg
20 Mar 17#31
From my own personal experience owning Sony NWZ-ZX1 and £300+ IEMs and headphones there is no noticeable difference between high-res and regular lossless. However there is a noticeable difference in some high-res releases of older albums, sometimes extremely noticeable. However this is because they remastered it for high-res which improved the quality, when I converted them down to regular lossless they still sounded the same and same improvement over original release.
basergorkobal
20 Mar 17#29
That's an interesting test. I'd like to test my hearing like that:)
While hi-res audio does make a difference in my experience using my home setup I can't imagine a portable setup could match that.
Ambient noise would cancel out all the nuances I imagine.
As for a player itself it does make sense if you have a decent pair of headphones that only shine with good amplification. Decent DAC is another great feature. But for most people iPod classic will be more than enough.
wakkaday
19 Mar 17#19
Be good if these plays could somehow have Spotify etc
basergorkobal to wakkaday
20 Mar 171#28
Be good if Spotify was hi-res in the first place:)
kicsrepins
20 Mar 17#27
Funny that, I blind tested the Sony NWZ-ZX1 , AK Jr, AK 240, Cowon P1 and Onkyo DP-X1 with various IEMs/ headphones and couldn't hear the supposed x7 more detail compared to CD, but if you can then good on you.
hermano2
20 Mar 17#26
I would suggest you rip CDs to flac if likely to buy something non apple in the future. Or apple lossless if sticking only with apple stuff..
Skymonkey
20 Mar 17#25
John Lewis had it on clearance for £99.95 but no idea when the offer was running. Actually the reviews indicate it was Feb/March 2017. The ability to order is greyed out so must have been an old deal.
I have an iPod I would like to replace within something non apple. This looks like an interesting piece of kit. I used to have a walkman minidisc and loved it.
ephadrine
19 Mar 17#8
Do these go louder than a Samsung s6 phone. I have paid 190 for bose headphones that I love. But I don't think my phone is best for them. many thanks.
Haircut_100 to ephadrine
19 Mar 17#24
How loud do you think you need a personal media player and a pair of headphones to go? By the way I don't know what pair of Bose headphones you are using but on my QC15's you can pull the cable out from the headpiece and slide the switch from 'Lo' to 'Hi' volume level. Perhaps you have a pair that is set on 'Lo' and you haven't realised? But seriously, loud volumes aren't so great for your ears, either in the short or long term.
I switched from my iPod Classic to this and added a microsd card to it. Volume level is high enough for me and believe with a update/settings change it can be upped.
Loads easier to put music onto it then having to use awful iTunes.
You obviously have to have the high res music to benefit for this function. Loads of software and sites out that that can rip/buy high res quality
Uncommon.Sense
19 Mar 17#21
John Lewis has it for this price also.
stovy
19 Mar 17#16
back to £180
bouncy99 to stovy
19 Mar 17#18
There are some warehouse deals for these at less that the ops price. I suppose my only question is, would you really tell the difference playing a lossless format on one of these over say a decent smartphone?
Manimal
19 Mar 17#17
****, been looking for one of these on the cheap, seems to have gone up in price now :disappointed:
kicsrepins
19 Mar 17#15
Kind of interested in what setup you think allows you to hear how Hi-Res is better than CD as the ones I have auditioned tells me otherwise.
RJ1
19 Mar 17#14
Thanks. My iTunes audio rips seems to be around 44.1 khz (sample rate) and between 256 and 320 kbps (bitrate). I play iTunes through my iPod.
If I ripped my CDs to iTunes on the highest setting, would there be a notable uplift in audio quality via this player vs my iPod? Many thanks!
RJ1
19 Mar 171#10
Do high res audio players sound a lot better than CD? Also where do you purchase your music in high res from? I've been transfering CDs to iTunes for years. :smiley:
hermano2 to RJ1
19 Mar 17#11
Yes, high Res audio sounds better than cd...If played through appropriate system. Many places to purchase, try here. http://www.hdtracks.co.uk
What bitrate do you "transfer" your CDs into iTunes? If not lossless then i would suggest reripping
dush_yant to RJ1
19 Mar 17#13
It's debatable. Most people can't even distinguish between 320kbps MP3 and CD quality and those who can need to really concentrate on the music to notice.
Zaim2012
19 Mar 17#9
Oh right, wasn't aware.
Apologies.
adsham
19 Mar 17#7
Thanks - price matched Argos Sony NWZ-A15 it seems
Copperface
19 Mar 172#6
The NWZ A15 got the LDAC update about 18 months ago - also has NFC.
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Great DAC for the price and the battery life is excellent.
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https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SonyNWDestTool
While hi-res audio does make a difference in my experience using my home setup I can't imagine a portable setup could match that.
Ambient noise would cancel out all the nuances I imagine.
As for a player itself it does make sense if you have a decent pair of headphones that only shine with good amplification. Decent DAC is another great feature. But for most people iPod classic will be more than enough.
JL Walkman
I have an iPod I would like to replace within something non apple. This looks like an interesting piece of kit. I used to have a walkman minidisc and loved it.
Loads easier to put music onto it then having to use awful iTunes.
You obviously have to have the high res music to benefit for this function. Loads of software and sites out that that can rip/buy high res quality
If I ripped my CDs to iTunes on the highest setting, would there be a notable uplift in audio quality via this player vs my iPod? Many thanks!
What bitrate do you "transfer" your CDs into iTunes? If not lossless then i would suggest reripping
Apologies.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Resolution-Walkman-3-1-inch-Display/dp/B01NBSVZK7/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
The A35 has support for LDAC where'as the 15 A doesn't.
Battery life is measured in days......love mine.