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post #31 of 96
1/19/11 at 7:55pm



Amen to that!

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Originally Posted by nywytboy68 View Post



 Sony IS SQ,...
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post #32 of 96
1/19/11 at 8:06pm
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Obviously, Sony can't make much profit from the old X series.  Sony is more towards style and trend rather than serious listening


Then I guess you've never listened to a Sony Walkman mp3 player - or you would have never made such an incorrect statement. Sony IS SQ,...


If you think about the trend in sony's CD players and MP3 layers in general, they are getting smaller, more portable; but definitely less able to drive good headphones.

I'm not saying that sony is not SQ, but Sony is definitely sacrificing SQ for trendiness, which I don't like.

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post #33 of 96
1/19/11 at 9:02pm


 

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Originally Posted by Chime Bells View Post

Obviously, Sony can't make much profit from the old X series.  Sony is more towards style and trend rather than serious listening


Then I guess you've never listened to a Sony Walkman mp3 player - or you would have never made such an incorrect statement. Sony IS SQ,...

+1.....even my E345 and S545, low-end models, sounded excellent to me.
 

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post #34 of 96
1/19/11 at 10:35pm

So, if Sony UK is finally selling the 64gb model http://www.sony.co.uk/product/nws-a-series/nwz-a847 is there any hope of it coming to NA??????

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post #35 of 96
1/20/11 at 6:03am
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Originally Posted by estreeter View Post

I'm with nytwytboy - whatever marketing BS Sony might like to pull, the X series was as good as any mass-market DAP mentioned in this forum. At the price Sony charged for them, they would want to be.



I agree.

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post #36 of 96
1/20/11 at 6:23am

Never heard a player (from my limited/but still OK experience )that does ambience/soundstage depth/bass extension/instrument placement better than sony a729/829

for everything else i've heard better, however in overall SQ sony is really hard to beat.

x1060 could have been damn good only if it had touch3g like power in amp section. 

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post #37 of 96
1/20/11 at 7:44am

Sony needs to fill in the blank between the X-series and the PCM-series. Granted the latter is consisted of recorders and the M10 is more inclined to be a DAP than a serious recorder...

Thing is, the X-series is already quite expensive for what it is ($450 CAD for X1060B, Sony Style Canada). I don't know, can Sony make something that runs on Android and is Rockbox-able?

But... as long as iPods exist, I don't think it'll be easy to become the new rave. But Apple is practically a cult. /personal opinion

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post #38 of 96
1/20/11 at 8:25am
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Sony needs to fill in the blank between the X-series and the PCM-series. Granted the latter is consisted of recorders and the M10 is more inclined to be a DAP than a serious recorder...

Thing is, the X-series is already quite expensive for what it is ($450 CAD for X1060B, Sony Style Canada). I don't know, can Sony make something that runs on Android and is Rockbox-able?

But... as long as iPods exist, I don't think it'll be easy to become the new rave. But Apple is practically a cult. /personal opinion


 

Both would be great, the the latter would be a pipe dream.  Sony's firmware is very difficult to crack (although I think some of the OS's are in fact Linux based, so it may be possible).

 

Regarding your point about Apple and market share, Sony was recently quoted as saying that they intend to be the #2 manufacturer for tablets in the world.  I think everyone tips their hat to Apple's prowess in the market, but 2nd place to Apple is still a good place to be.

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post #39 of 96
1/20/11 at 8:50am

Well... their firmware can be UNIX-based, which can be locked down (Archos, anyone?).

I haven't seen a Sony tablet. I've only seen the Samsung Galaxy and some Fujitsu rotatable-screen portable computers which can't really qualify as tablets. Also HP Slate.

Somebody needs to be up there to compete against Apple. What is so special about iDevices anyway?

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post #40 of 96
2/6/11 at 7:02am
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Update: Surprise-surprise, no reply from Sony as of yet - despite my letter being sent to many contacts at Sony Corporation of America.

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post #41 of 96
2/7/11 at 12:41am

Reply ? I'd be surprised if anyone 'important' has even read it. My experience with corporations is that the only stuff that matters is a request from someone higher up the chain. You might get a form letter some day, but dont beat yourself up - corporations routinely ignore people with significantly larger problems.

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post #42 of 96
2/7/11 at 3:59am
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I'm definitely not "beating myself up."  Frankly, my expectation was a standard form letter at best.... I just wanted to provide an update.

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post #43 of 96
2/7/11 at 4:28am

It's still kind of sad.  Even big corporations should at least have a gratuitous form letter to send out. 

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post #44 of 96
2/7/11 at 1:05pm

can you get the 32gb version?

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post #45 of 96
2/7/11 at 1:52pm
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I'm sorry Mark, what are you referring to?

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