NEW Sony Walkman Z Series mini review!!! - Page 211

Yeah, it happened again to me today. My hunch is that it does this when the battery is extremely low or when playing games. Could be totally off base though..

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Originally Posted by purk 

The F has a perfect form factor IMO.  You can try to find the A865 or A866 if you love the size of the X1060.  I find the F's size to much more manageable than the Z.  

Im just waiting for a good price on the F series.  Is the A series you listed the same?  Whats the difference?  Size is a huge factor to me  and why I loved the x1000 so much.  I dont watch videos or use wifi on my PMP, all I use it for is music so i dont need a 5" screen.  its nice but id sacrifice that for more compact form.

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Originally Posted by Bassheadd 

Im just waiting for a good price on the F series.  Is the A series you listed the same?  Whats the difference?  Size is a huge factor to me  and why I loved the x1000 so much.  I dont watch videos or use wifi on my PMP, all I use it for is music so i dont need a 5" screen.  its nice but id sacrifice that for more compact form.

The NWZ-A86X is identical in size to the X.  Not as luxurious but sound noticeably better to my ears.  It's sound signature is closer to the Z and is a joy to use.  No wifi or Andriod, just a perfect standard walkman.  Sadly the US version maxed out at 16GB.  Try locating a Southasia 32GB version is your best bet.  Stay away from the Euro as it suffers from a volume cap and inferior sound quality.

hi can you help me what is the best USB AC charger output? 5V 1000mA because this the usual output of all usb AC adapter?

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Originally Posted by izal 


congratz on your new Z. btw I got the 32GB HK version that comes with ex300, does the NWNC33 performs significantly better in International Z than ex300 with all enhancements turned on except dynamic normalizer and surround sound off?
thanks..

Got home today. Just remembered your question.

the sound signature of these two earphones is very similar. The ex300 seems to require a notch or two more volume to sound the same level, but once there I really can't pick much if any difference. 

After my trip, I have to same the noise cancelling of the NW-NC33 is really very good. I flew back this morning in an Embraer 190 which even in row 3 are a very noisy plane. In most 737s I've used my B&W P5s, they've been adequate at isolating engine noise, but in the Embraer, there was still too much noise. Having tried the NW-NC33 on the way down yesterday, and being quite impressed, I changed over and they isolated almost as good as my Bose would have done IMO. I think it's neat how Sony have set the noise cancelling up giving three different environment options, Bus/Train, Plane or Office plus you can vary the NC effect +/- 15 levels. I guess that is in case you want to still hear some outside noises. 

In conclusion, without the NC software of the Japanese Z1000 I don't see any reason you'd buy them. They sound pretty good but in reality, there are heaps better IEMs and many isolate almost as well as these active models. I much prefer my W4r for example.

And I'm sure there are plenty less expensive ones than those that are superior, but for a stock accessory IEM these are the best sounding and most useful with the NC I've had.

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Originally Posted by usernamekoh 

hi can you help me what is the best USB AC charger output? 5V 1000mA because this the usual output of all usb AC adapter?

I'm using my iPhone and iPad chargers. Convenient because there are 4 in my household. The iPads 10w charger is quickest. If you want to buy an adapter, get a aftermarket iPhone/iPad one I guess. 

Now that I've sorted my Japanese NW-Z1070, I'm selling the two week old Z1050. Here's the listing...

http://www.head-fi.org/t/652707/sony-nwz-z1050-16gb-media-player-android-ics-2-weeks-old#post_9196793

After the update to ICS I didn't enjoy my Japanese Z as much anymore as before with Android 2.3. I perceived the difference in sound sig to be huge and not as small as some in this forum claim the difference to be: Harsher/piercing highs without the smooth bass and fatigueing to listen to in the long run.

For that reason alone I just had to buy myself another Z, will never update this unit to ICS!

Pretty amazed that this isn't mentioned more often in this thread as I remember the remarks made about the possibility of the sound turning for the worse just before the update came out last December!

Yep, bought another one.

There is no known way to downgrade the Z from ICS!

I went from the a864 walkman to the z and I noticed the difference in sound quality immediately.  The Z was more muddled and fatiguing, where the A was clean

crisp, and full with nice separation.  Kinda disappointing really since I heard they have the same digital amps in them.  I find with the z that less is more.  I turn off all

of the sound enhancements and maybe use the eq.  If I use any of the sound enhancements the eq changes dont seem to work.  I noticed this before the ics update,

that the eq just seemed to make things louder and not better.  That is, if I adjusted the treble I could hardly tell that I adjusted the treble, everything just seemed to be louder.

With the A if I adjusted the treble I could tell immediately the change.  If only I could find a large capacity a series then I would sell the z.  

Still like my Z alot,enough to buy another one to get rid of ICS!

Good comparison between the Z and A860 here:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/607727/sony-walkman-nw-z1000-vs-nwz-a860-review-unboxing

aww man dont tell me that after I updated to ICS! :D

how can it be worse quality if it is allowing the playing of FLAC files?!

On that note, could someone please help me? Half of the FLAC files I put on my Z1060 dont work, and say 'unsupported' :/