Great to know, thank you, I will take a look at solder joints. It's still lurking in my office, hadn't summoned the fortitude to toss it out.

How did this work out for you Jack71? Same issue here.

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I am about to buy a player that will connect to my MDR-100ABNs via the LDAC codec. I currently have a Walkman NW-ZX1, which unfortunately does not have LDAC. I was about to spring for an NW-ZX2, when it occurred to me that since I got the headphones, I haven't really been using the wired output...

Quote:   Quote: I have a Sony Acro S. Best-sounding phone I have had, by a country mile. None of the brashness of the Xperia Mini Pro or the weediness of the Xperia P.   My Walkman Z is getting less use now, but is still my choice for when I really want to listen to music via...

FWIW for anyone scrolling through this thread, my read on the original Gingerbread vs the upgraded Ice Cream Sandwich sound is that ICS is more neutral and flatter (as in, less frequency response deviation from the original recording) than the original earlier operating system sound. Not a huge...

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Quote: My head is spinning. After doing the "clear data" thing to tidy up the Sony player post-ICS upgrade, I was completely seduced by its sound. Switched over to Neutron and found myself wondering what I thought it was so good. Very confused. Did "clear data" fix up a sound quality issue...

Quote: The bad news is that Poweramp is a woefully inferior player. Despite all the claims and features, it delivers very poor sound quality on the Walkman. Recommend you use Neutron if you wish to avoid the stock player. However, as noted above, there is a very simple solution to getting...

Quote: Wow, that totally worked for me. Thank you so much for sharing this tip.   In the interim, frustrated with the FLAC delay bug, I have loaded the Neutron player and got sold on its exceptional sound. Looks like I've got an evening of A-B comparisons between Sony and Neutron...

Quote: Thank you so much for highlighting Neutron player. Downloaded it last night and ended up turning out the lights three hours later than planned. My initial impression is that I am getting better sound quality than through the stock Walkman player, which no other player had come...

 

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Quote: Yep, Android Player, Mixx thingie, PowerAmp all sound very poor compared to the Walkman app.  Sony have locked in some software control of sound quality... in the digital stage of the amp perhaps?

Quote: I drive AKG501s off of a Z1060. The Z is the first mp3 player I have heard that is capable of driving the notoriously hard-to-drive 501s to listenable levels. However, the 501s definitely called for some amplification, so I took a there-is-no-way-I-can-lose-at-this-price attitude and...

Quote: Poweramp was a sonic disaster on my z1060. I installed it so I could play FLAC files. The "mild distortion" completely erases hi-fi elements of the sound. Soundstage, timbre, sparkling highs, all eliminated. Yes, changing Poweramp settings (and I assure you, I dug deep in my...