[groupama3]

Well, its certainly not a cheap route for an uncapped A307 to UK via Amazon Japan/buyee!

The 64GB A307 plus soft flip case cost me £405 including the proxy charges and the Japanese tax and £27 postage you end up paying (wouldn't have this if still via Amazon Japan direct) but then also not lucky this time with UK customs

Total customs charge £106.78 : £15.20 Duty, 79.58 VAT, £12 ParcelForce handling.

A UK capped 32GB A306 is £349.99 (they don't sell the 64GB or any cases). So for uncapped with extra 32GB and case will have cost me £177 more.

So £405+£27+£106.78 = £538.78 but still a bit cheaper than ebay prices if also got caught with customs.

Supposedly being delivered tomorrow (Wednesday)

Scary, will be interesting to see how it works out for me in Ireland, I just got the 306 and no case

 

[abitdeef]

Does Walkman music app show play time like the WM1AM2 does (in settings) and any pop-up about needing burn-in like the higher models ?

Nope, don't see it.

 

[abitdeef]

I was going for blue but like idea that the light grey is near same colour as underlying aluminium so won't show scratches/dings etc. Plus its not sold in UK (only Blue/Black) so a bit more unique. Plus I always have black and fancied a change

It's meant to be coming tomorrow and I have glass screen protector due Thursday.

Been listening to my WM1AM2 all week just via 3.5mm so ready for my head-to-head Have over 150hrs on balanced but still only 30+ on 3.5mm.

The only offer black here, and I remember the zx300 was only in silver. They truly hate us lol. Grey should be cool, like old school. Remember when everything was silver and grey? That was a long time ago 70's 80'. Black was there but I had many a silver discman.

Those custom charges are crazy! Who gets that money?

 

[abitdeef]

Hi, excuse me can you change « accent color » in your device please ?
And so you can define a « default home app » like for ex a launcher or poweramp please ?

Not sure about the first, the second- well you can drag any app you want into the home grid. Where would it be to change accent color?
I set Screensavers and that's about it as far as customizing android. It is full Android 12 so you should be able to do anything you can on your phone. Minus making calls ha ha.

 

[abitdeef]

Do we know how the cap is set ? Hardware or software?
I see sony has published the kernel sources. Are these of any use?
https://oss.sony.net/Products/Linux/Audio/NW-A300.html

I can tell you it's bloody awful with that message popping up and setting your volume to 50. Ever 20 hours of playtime my ass. It's happend 4 times already, It's just annoying.

 

[abitdeef]

This is great, thanks for the extra details, looking forward to mine arriving for sure.
Love a bit of Rush too, Exit..Stage Left is my go to at the moment

I thankfully got to see them multiple times and saw them backstage for a bit. That's a great album, bit rough in the beginning but the quality gets better. Xanadu still wows me, only 3 guys lol.

 

[goody]

The only offer black here, and I remember the zx300 was only in silver. They truly hate us lol. Grey should be cool, like old school. Remember when everything was silver and grey? That was a long time ago 70's 80'. Black was there but I had many a silver discman.

Those custom charges are crazy! Who gets that money?

It goes into the govt coffers

 

[abitdeef]

It goes into the govt coffers

I figured, so basically an import tax.

 

[bcarr112281]

How about CUE functionality? Sony barely mentions CUE on the A306's product page, and I've seen no reference to it whatsoever in the manual.

 

[rlw6534]

How about CUE functionality? Sony barely mentions CUE on the A306's product page, and I've seen no reference to it whatsoever in the manual.

I tried a CUE/WAV (single WAV file) and it did not work (other than playing the large file without metadata).

 

[Click]

FromJapan is having a 10% off sale on anything bought from Rakuten today and tomorrow.

https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/rakuten

https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/rakuten/search/NW-A306/-/?logkey=rakt_search

https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/rakuten/search/NW-A307/-/lgk-rakt_search

 

[SteC82]

I can tell you it's bloody awful with that message popping up and setting your volume to 50. Ever 20 hours of playtime my ass. It's happend 4 times already, It's just annoying.

Can you hide or disable the popup like other Android notifications?

 

[abitdeef]

Can you hide or disable the popup like other Android notifications?

No, it's not configurable. It's part of the volume cap not avls. But under the listening warnings sony had it was only supposed to happen every 20 hours of playtime.

I don't recommend a capped volume unit. No no.

 

[exile1973]

No, it's not configurable. It's part of the volume cap not avls. But under the listening warnings sony had it was only supposed to happen every 20 hours of playtime.

I don't recommend a capped volume unit. No no.

Does the volume match that of uncapped units once you get past the popup though?

 

[abitdeef]

Does the volume match that of uncapped units once you get past the popup though?

No lol, it's neutered. It's literally hamstrung on output power. I can have it full volume on some songs and even then it's not loud enough. Psikey said my rose mini 3 pro are 32 ohm, but they're sensitive and easy to drive.