never mind :)

now, if that rooms audio stand would have been 2-3cm taller ... anyway, it's better than others.    

The ports at the bottom of the cans let in way too much noise. This is not an issue with Z1R, which isolates way better.

    Yeah, that was what I was thinking, too, until I got home and connected them to the TA-ZH1ES. It's like the MDR-Z1Rs, you can connect them to a phone but they benefit a lot from a good amp.

  It's a decent alternative if you can' get the Z1R or if you need a second pair of headphones for travel/office. The signature is pretty close but Z1R is on a whole different level.

  Thanks for the answer.   I can't really point my finger at what annoys me. Probably I got spoiled by Z1R :) Sadly, I can't find ONKYO H900M locally or on amazon.co.uk/de. On the other hard, I can order the Z7 and easily return them if I dislike anything ...

Question for people who owned both MDR-Z1R and MDR-Z7 and eventually MDR-1A:   I have a pair of MDR-Z1R at home, which, in my opinion, sounds great. At the office I'm using a pair of MDR-1A, which is starting to get on my nerves. I'm thinking about upgrading the office one to a pair of MDR-Z7...

Yes, 44.1, 88.2 and 176.4kHz get upsampled to 352.8kHz. It makes sense from a resource point of view, since the algorithm is almost costless. You can report it to Sony but I doubt anything will come out of it. It seems the DAC works, internally, with those PCM formats. It's not unheard of and...

  Actually, according to your pics, it seems to be upsampling to 384kHz 32bit except for the 16bit stream, which gets upsampled to 352.8Khz 32 bit. To be honest, I never tried 16 bit input but my TA does the same 384kHz upsampling and this seems normal to me. I'll check the 16 bit stuff when...

I'm toying with JRiver. Windows 10, TA on USB, ASIO Driver. Test file is the same 11.2Mhz DSF.   I forced the output as 8xDSD (22.4Mhz) and the sound gets interrupted. Can be JRiver, my motherboard's USB or TA. I suspect it's JRiver.  4xDSD(11.2Mhz), as shown in the Onkyo image, works...

  This is my Onkyo DP-X1, outputing DoP. I tried to enable Direct Transfer but the TA displayed PCM as input, so no go.  

  With all DSP off, TA upsamples any PCM data to PCM 384kHz 32bit DSD data is played directly.

Got the thing. It sounds beautifully when combined with MDR-Z1R. Money well spent

  I just checked mine and I'm 100% it's not leather. I have two other Sony headphones with pleather earspads and this looks different, like some kind of vinyl. I'd say they are using it for acoustic reasons.

  Romania. Amazon.co.uk/de usually ships expedited deliveries through UPS. Never had any problems with expedited deliveries but I can't say the same about the standard ones.

  Don't worry :) It seems they are really shipping them earlier. Got the email, Jan. 18-20 is the new delivery date.   Since I don't have a dedicated headphones amp, I'm expecting a good upgrade over my Onkyo DP-X1. 

  I've ordered on 5th. No email and it still shows Feb 17- March 17 as estimated delivery :(

  Got one from custom-cable.co.uk Both sockets are 100% centered and there is no play. While I have no loss of signal and no play, the jacks don't seem very sturdy.    Yesterday I had some problems with the microsd card (slot 1, slot 2 isn't used yet) which was mounting/unmounting by itself...