and the bashing of your ear canals began earlier than you might think..... https://cdm.link/2019/07/sony-space-apollo/

the irony is that any treble push in equipment made by Sony....is probably being partly driven for a demographic that has excaccerbated hearing loss because in the 80,90s they stuck mini speakers over their ears pumping sound directly into the ear canals.....popularised by a certain 'Walkman'.

the funny thing is about audiophile debates, and the recordings from the 50s/60s/70s that are suggested as test cases - is that the recording equipment of the period would often not record above 20k in the first place - take the Sinatra/Doors Telefunken U47 microphone. Often what is on the tape...

My two penneth worth. On tuning Daps. WM sound engineer Hiroaki Sato seems to make all his product development decisions based on (his) human ear tuning - from the impact of 99.99 pure copper to gold solder. When it comes to mastering coloration and equipment- have a look at interviews...

There is one. And it's pretty dealbreaking for me in terms of rock/pop streaming. All streamers use loudness war wrecked remasters - with crushed dynamic range - from Bowie to Zeppelin. Part of the vinyl revival - for those that actually have record players - is probably down to it being...

Yes. I have 1z & 1a. Reviews in signature. The 1ZM2 is light years better than the og 1Z. It has a euphonic quality BUT with detail retrieval. I work in audio. With 1ZM2 I can assess differences in recording remastering in the same classical recording - between hires pcm flac and dsd .dsf...

Interesting.

Thanks for that detailed overview. I have a 1ZM2 uncapped. And the original 1Z/As. I never use high gain. Work in audio - my hearing is my living and passion. There have been high gain discussions on this thread. Sony engineers dont like it as it compromises the music signal - so it's there to...

Interesting. Is that listed in Sony's data sheets? Or by measurement?

Pretty sure the original WM1Z thread was closed down by moderators due to an outbreak of personal infighting. Let's learn from history for once....

How do you find the 1ZM2 when it comes to driving your 1000/800?

Don't get me started on low screen refresh rates on all WMZ series giving me Pulse Width Modulation headaches....😜

Just how deaf do you want to be? 😉😄

Soon thread contributors will need to sign a waiver saying neither they not their extended family have shares in Swis*** 😉

With a 1.5TB micosd filled with 96 or 44.1 Flac that wont be happening anytime soon. I think the point if these $$$ DAPs is to have a DAC that can produce exceptional sound from whatever sound format - especially lfrom lossless.

Wow. That is disconcerting about 1.08.

It's 60hz refresh rate. Sony DAP are sadly migraine disasters except run at 100% brightness.

Interesting. I wonder how it will scale to full size cans.

How has it changed Direct to you feel? Are you using IEM, overears or both?

So to clarify - people here think that tge 1.08 FW makes changes to the sound performance of Direct AND Dsse?

Search i Excluding sound fidelity - the ability to search properly, and the boot up time cannot be underestimated. Now you can view two ways. ZM2 is a improvement. Or the ZM1 was not released or supported properly. No search still on ZM1. I have a 1.5TB SD + internal on ZM2. Not having the...

Agree. If only Sony didn't run its screens at very very low refresh rates that give me PWM near migraines- they would then be audio nirvana.

Yes. It was a company famed for spares and care for at least 5 years post production. I work in broadcasting and their gear was often standard. But as I've detailed here with the issues I have with their low 60hz refresh screens - going as far as being in direct contact with WMs Mr Sato - there...

Once happy with all meta data - Recommend Foobar2000 utilities to minimize file size by reducing padding. It saved a good deal of space on a 1tb SD collection and sped up album art loading and I know that the files are now in their most effient buffering order. The only files that cannot be...