I got a pair of nutopias recently, to complement my HD800S. On first listen, I admired their technicalities, and their lows and mids, but didn't love their tonality at the top end of the frequency, compared with the HD800S. Yes, HD800S are sometimes described as thin, analytical, bright etc...

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Good test. It could be that you are successfully identifying the device that sounds different to yours, and that device is the Cu. If you decide to get an SS, then trying a new blind test with your new SS, your Cu and your friends SS would be interesting. Would you be able to identify the Cu easely?

I hadn't seen a DMP with the volume knob pointing at 2 o'clock before :dt880smile:. I know that the HD800s, which you also have in your inventory, can be driven with the volume knob around 11 o'clock. Where does the volume knob of your DMP point to while driving the Susvara and the HD800?

I am sure the SP3000 will be one of the best DAP's with TOTL IEMS but I wonder if any owner have paired it with the HD800s and can provide some feedback? A reviewer said it was loud enough but the sound was a bit dry/thin.

No, I haven't. Sorry.

I would suggest the HiBy RS8, with its desktop level R2R dac. I had read some reviews and it has one of the best Android implementations in the DAP market. And in terms of sound, they said it is organic, dense and still manage great separation, layering and texture detail. Imagine a Luxury...

Looks nice. It has a lot of inputs / outputs and options, so yeah, they seems to target the TA-ZH1ES segment.

Very nice, thank you for taking the time to describe DMP characteristics.

I see you also own a AK Sp3000. Can you give us a quick comparison of sound quality between Sp3000 and DMP-Z1? Do you feel the SP3000 have a "blacker background" (or less noise floor) than DMP-Z1?

Nice. In a boat I would appreciate something pocketable. Have you checked the HiBy RS8, based on a R2R chip? There is also the new AK sp3000, with a more conventional DAC ship.

This pairing would be my audio nirvana :beyersmile:

I trust that you are at the top of the sonic bliss :) Question: Of all your headphones, is this your favourite pairing with the DMP?

“After the introduction of NW-WM1 series, we just felt we need more amplification power to satisfy all the hi-end customers. While the D.A. hybrid amplifier built into the TA-ZH1ES headphone amplifier achieves a high output, producing a high-quality sound even from high-impedance headphones, it...

yes, some times I does. However, headroom, understood as pool of power, is also good, because different headphones present different loads at the same voltage, meaning they draw from an available pool of power all of the current they need to operate at a given voltage. The bigger the power pool...

To me, the “walk to the next level of sound” would normally mean a Walkman with higher output power. But one of the Satos in the team explained in an interview that the 250 mW output limit was due to the voltage limit of the semiconductor for the S-Master developed by then. I wonder if they...

Nice finding Mr MrWalkman. A lot or question marks in that image, except for the Android line :). By the way, what does 1X mean after the word Android?

Apart of battery life, I dislike the additional processing demand of a Android system and the undesirable effects in the noice. But that is something a bit subjective. More objectively, I dislike that future versions of apps may not be supported, which combined with the lack of systems updates...

Your usage time should be OK, but you could ask the question to Sony. if the issue was temperature related, I think you should have noticed your DMP getting very hot during usage, like hotter than when some batteries get warm during charging? Unless you used to play music in a really hot...

DMP owners, I had a look and I am not not sure if this has been discussed before: how do you take care of the unit batteries? Do you listen mostly while connected to the mains and use the battery only for special occasions? Or do you run the unit mostly on batteries but making sure you keep the...

I've never heard the Z1, so I can't answer, but I hope I will join the group of Z1 owners someday :smile_phones::smile_phones::smile_phones: That Myspehre 3.1 looks fantastic in pictures, and I was just reading that it is a demanding headphone to drive and that when is not properly controlled...

What headphones you do prefer with your Z1?

This TA-ZH1ES vs DMP discussion.... TA-ZH1ES is Sony's top device for indoor multipurpose audio in recent years. DMP the one for indoor headphone audio. NW WM1A/Z for mobile headphone audio. It is expected they would have different components, architectures, performance and price points.

Apart of the now discontinued Sony Media Go, what other Music Management program can be used to send tracks and whole albums to the Internal memory of the DMP?

Good information, thanks for sharing. I used to drive my 1266 from the speaker taps of a Yamaha as-3200. The source / pream was a nw wm1z. Great combo bypassing the preamp of the Yamaha, it was basically plugging an amplifier to the S-Master. However, this was only possible via 3.5 to RCA...