Got the MTW's in. Love them, no issues with mine. One complaint is the Transparent Hearing is a bit too quiet. Wish there was a way to adjust that.

Any idea when the Senns will be back in stock at vendors? Got $50 off of them from Neiman Marcus before they showed as sold out, and customer service gave me no ETA on stock date, although I assume they'll fulfill my order since I placed it when it was still backordered.

It'll also find album art for you. I mean, if you're gonna be this serious enough about portable music when a cell phone does the job 95% as well, you may as well go the last step and have a correctly formatted library with album art etc.

I'm getting the "invalid file, file format not supported" error message on some mp3's, but only when the song is 5-10 seconds away from finishing. They play fine, they just cut out at the very end and then it plays the next song. All my metadata, file names, and ID3 tags are consistent. Any...

Got mine from Joybuy today! Before anyone asks, the cable is this Aliexpress cable that I terminated with a Plus Sound 4.4mm plug.

Weak, mine is taking 8 days longer than yours to get here.

Ordered mine the day they came back in stock on 1/12. Says it just went through Chicago yesterday and I should have it on the 1st.

Which DAP do you like better, usability-wise and sound-wise?

My point is that for anyone with issues displaying artwork on modern Walkmans, TagScanner can mass recompress all your existing artwork so that it'll 100% work.

You probably did all your album art through some program that only finds baseline jpg's. When browsing through google images it's a crapshoot. This was my experience before I mass converted my whole library with TagScanner, since about 1/4 of my album art did not show up. If it's not a baseline...

All album art needs to be jpeg saved in baseline compression. Progressive jpegs do not display. Mp3tag has no batch feature for this, but TagScanner does. It can recompress your whole library in one action.

I didn't see it on my desktop either. Think the popup blocker disabled the coupon message. Logged into joybuy on mobile and got the notification. Try that.

Yeah but the $20 off $200+ when you sign up for joybuy still works.

I can't find anything in this thread or on Sony's international sites saying that the ZX300A does or does not have an English language option. But the "select language option" section of Sony's online manual for the ZX300/ZX300A makes no differentiation between the two so I assume it'll have the...

I went with this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/0.html?spm=a2g0s.9042647.0.0.IQok5W&orderId=88955185140626&productId=32816549815 Planning to solder on a 4.4mm balanced Plus Sound plug since I have a Walkman on order. IMO just get the one you think looks best. They all sound the same.

No. It just makes it louder if it's not loud enough. Also the zx300a is back in stock on joybuy for $386 ($366 after coupon).

Has anyone had a chance to do a sound comparison between this and the Cayin N5ii?

16/44.1khz FLAC won't show high res but 24/96khz will.

If one buys the chinese version with firmware 2.0CN, could it be reflashed to the 2.1EN firmware?

Same here, as of a couple hours ago. Added an Ares II balanced cable to the order too. Should go well with the T8ie mkii's. I only wish the N5ii came with a 4.4mm jack like the Walkmans instead of the 2.5mm jack. Have never used a 2.5mm before but it looks way too flimsy.

How does this compare sound-quality-wise to the AK120ii? They're almost identical in form and while the n5ii is a few years newer and several times cheaper, used AK120ii's are starting to get pretty close in price.

Okay, so these things are pretty tough. How do I know? I ran these through a freakin 55min dryer cycle. Coming back from a trip I tossed my jacket into the dryer to freshen them up as I did laundry, forgetting I left these in there. Taking the clothes out I find these in the pile with the...

Mine took a full 3 weeks from HK to US, but I don't think it was "processing" for very long.

Yeah this really isn't an issue when you batch convert album covers with TagScanner.

Yup, TagScanner works. Saved a cover as progressive, then ran it through TagScanner and it shows up in the Walkman just fine. Just make sure to go in program options and set the recompression quality anywhere from 90 to 100. This program does everything mp3tag does in addition to recompressing...