I have my hands ON the Sony X1000 Walkman - Impressions / Discussions - Page 31

Nice one Stimpy! Let us know if it shows up tomorrow. I've never had anything arrive the next day from Play!

Duncan-
My left ear finally 'popped' this morning after a 2-day blockage - and now I can hear clearly, so clearly that I was able to turn the volume down by 3 notches on the Sony/FX1000. I have a feeling that phones worn straight down are causing a build up of pressure, because I never have this problem with over the ears.

Anyway, having spent the last hour with the Sony/FX1000, I'm beginning to enjoy them a lot. I plan to spend the whole afternoon with them and get a proper feel for them in unblocked ears

It's highly unlikely. The only firmware updates I've had on previous Sony daps were to fix issues like crackling (on the 829), and something else I can't remember for the 808. But I've never had an update that added a feature.

Mine sound great on the Sony.

If you're having second thoughts, then you should definitely wait and get more opinions, unless of course you can get your Sony from somewhere with a decent returns policy. I've never had the D2 so I can't comment, but I'd read enough about it to know (well, almost know!), that it wouldn't be a sound I cared for. If you need/want lossless support, you're not going to get it from the Sony except with WAV/PCM files.

Me too, but I have a feeling it's related to the different angle of insertion. Mark loaned me his RadioPap Pop last week (worn straight down) - and after a few hours I had terrible pressure build up. And yet I'd been using the W3/IE8 before with no pressure at all. I had the same problem with C700's eventually, and then just recently with the FX1000... so l'll keep my fingers crossed that the 3LB of pressure that just popped out doesn't come back

I don't know if it's better either, but all my varying formats sound equally good. The only problem with AAC is that WMP can't see the files, and I think I messed things up by using 2 different methods of transfer, ie; Explorer shows me a different remaining capacity to WMP and some albums don't appear in Explorer, but they do in WMP. Strange, but I'll figure it out at some point.

Don't worry, we'll all be six feet under by the time that ever happens


Oh, and if anyone's experiencing a quirk whereby album art doesn't show up, I figured it out. I had the same problem with the Sansa Fuze and stalked the appreciation thread for a while until I read that jpegs have to be saved in 'Baseline (Standard) - not Baseline Optimized or Progressive. So I weeded out the suspect covers on the Sony, saved them in Baseline Standard and now they all display!