New Sony Walkman NW-A300 Series (Android 12)

[alex5908]

It's also case sensitive, Walkman's player will see songs if the folder's name is "music", but the PC app won't (if you plan to use it).

Edit: just noticed that you mentioned .m4a,

Thanks a lot. The problem was in capital M.
m4a works fine. Doing the library update now.
Any restrictions to the number of files?

 

[alex5908]

Does anybody use Deezer app?
Don't see the option of logging to the paid acc. And it allows me to create a free acc with the email associated with the paid account.
What's the solution? Using a web browser?

 

[captblaze]

Does anybody use Deezer app?
Don't see the option of logging to the paid acc. And it allows me to create a free acc with the email associated with the paid account.
What's the solution? Using a web browser?

Did you disable the Chrome Browser? If you did that could be what is preventing the log in

 

[alex5908]

Did you disable the Chrome Browser?

No, I did not. Moreover, I logged in with Chrome and then I got into the deezer app automatically.

 

[alex5908]

How can it be that while streaming music from Deezer the subj is cold and playing music from the SD card it gets heated considerably?
With my Hiby R6III it's vice versa/the other way about.

 

[Jrod33084]

Thanks a lot. The problem was in capital M.
m4a works fine. Doing the library update now.
Any restrictions to the number of files?

No restriction that I’m aware of. I have around 11,000 tracks. However if you use the Walkman player app, I believe it will only count up to 9999. If you just want to play through all your tracks it would display something like this as it counts 108/- , 109/-, 110/- etc.

 

[thr4]

How can it be that while streaming music from Deezer the subj is cold and playing music from the SD card it gets heated considerably?
With my Hiby R6III it's vice versa/the other way about.

Something might be happening in the background - I do not experience any excessive warming when playing from SD card, only during intensive streaming, downloading, installing apps etc. Having said that, I experienced a mysterious battery drain once, but it went away on its own.

 

[alex5908]

Have you updated the database?

The problem was in small "m"

 

[Edric Li]

Can the A100 be used with an external DAC or is this only available on the A300? Thanks

 

[BOTAK WAI]

Sony NW-A306 is a clean sounding DAP when it's on its "Direct Source: On" setting.

I'm writing this basic guide for those who have no experience on Sony DAP and going to have audition on this DAP before making purchase decision.
It's not a fair competition versus other DAPs if you couldn't unleash the potential of Sony A306.

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Navigation:

1. Go to "Settings"
2. Tap on "About device"
3. Keep on tapping on "Build number" until the Developer options enabled

1. Go to "Settings"
2. Tap on "System"
3. Tap on "Developer options"

1. Scroll down and find the "Window animation scale", "Transition animation scale", and "Animator duration scale"
2. Set those 3 options to "Animation off"
3. These actions will reduce the lagginess of the graphical user interface transition

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Sound adjustment:

1. Turn the "DIRECT" switch to the right (ON) if you would like to listen to the DAP without any audio processing
2. Turn the "DIRECT" switch to the left (OFF) and turn the "Equalizer" switch to the right (ON) and start to adjust the equalizer for a more fun sound
3. I recommend to start with adjusting the low frequency of the presets:
"Custom 1" : [31Hz +2.0] [62Hz +2.0]
"Custom 2" : [31Hz +2.5] [62Hz +5.0]
4. Apply the presets and make comparison
5. Make further adjustments if needed

My Sony MH1C EQ setting
[62Hz +2.0]
DSEE Ultimate: ON
DC Phase Linearizer: ON
Dynamic Normalizer: OFF
Vinyl Processor: OFF

My Sony MH755 EQ setting
[62Hz +2.0]
[4KHz -2.5]
DSEE Ultimate: ON
DC Phase Linearizer: ON
Dynamic Normalizer: OFF
Vinyl Processor: OFF

My NiceHCK YDX (with sponge) EQ setting
[250Hz -1.0]
[500Hz -1.0]
[8KHz +2.0]
[16KHz +2.0]
DSEE Ultimate: ON
DC Phase Linearizer: ON
Dynamic Normalizer: OFF
Vinyl Processor: OFF

1. Turn the "DSEE Ultimate" switch to the right (ON) if you would like to have better treble extension
2. This option only makes good recording sounds better and more airy, it doesn't really make bad recording sounds better, regardless it's loseless or lossy track
3. I recommend to turn this "DSEE Ultimate" ON for better treble extension, and turn this "DSEE Ultimate" OFF if you would like to have a longer battery life for music listening

1. Turn the "DC Phase Linearizer" switch to the right (ON) if you would like the bass sounds like on the traditional class AB amplifier
2. I recommend to turn this "DC Phase Linearizer" OFF for better bass timing

1. I recommend to turn this "Dynamic Normalizer" OFF to avoid volume and dynamic range compression

1. Turn the "Vinyl Processor" switch to the right (ON) if you would like a more analogue sounding
2. I recommend to turn this "Vinyl Processor" OFF because it sounds with a little bit early treble roll-off
3. You might want to turn this "Vinyl Processor" ON when you listen to oldies, and you might want to combo "Vinyl Processor" ON with "DSEE Ultimate" OFF and "DC Phase Linearizer" ON

1. I recommend to turn this "ClearAudio+" OFF all the time. With ClearAudio+ ON it sounds like Sony's proprietary Virtual Surround Technology (VPT) + Clear Bass effects were applied
2. ClearAudio+ isn't useless at all, you could try this effect by listening to Taylor Swift - Blank Space.
3. Turn on ClearAudio+ for movie watching gives you another kind of experience.

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[stylus75]

Nevermind

 

[stylus75]

Can the A100 be used with an external DAC or is this only available on the A300? Thanks

Yes, it works.

 

[alex5908]

Hello everybody,
Yesterday I installed "JetAudio+" and "AM3D" addon. I was literally shocked by the SQ change. The Lows became powerful to the extremes and the sound stage widened considerably.
Today when I turned the subj on I am not that positive as I was yesterday.
1. The A306 full loading time extended by 15 seconds. But that's alrighty. Well almost...))
2. The JA+ does not see the folder "music". You can enter the music folder by "Genres", or "Artists" etc, but not "Folder". It's quite frustrating to me.
Are there any tricks to fix those two "nuisances"?

 

[thr4]

1. Scroll down and find the "Window animation scale", "Transition animation scale", and "Animator duration scale"
2. Set those 3 options to "Animation off"
3. These actions will reduce the lagginess of the graphical user interface transition

Helpful tips - however I have noticed that when I turn off the animations in developer options, a big app logo flickers through when switching apps. App switching is faster, but this makes it look much less polished. Is this your experience as well?

 

[BOTAK WAI]

Helpful tips - however I have noticed that when I turn off the animations in developer options, a big app logo flickers through when switching apps. App switching is faster, but this makes it look much less polished. Is this your experience as well?

i didn't notice that. maybe you could try to fiddle around those 3 animation settings to 0.5x one by one instead of turn off all.