Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
has near life-like realism
Most upper tier desktop system can achieve this. But when we get into a proper upper tier desktop setup, there are more nit-picks to pick them apart. Simply throw out Near life-like realism doesn’t do any good. If it can’t even out perform SP1000 or even only 5% away, that would be a shamehas near life-like realism
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Funny, RK50 is known for it quality and performance, Sony never known this ? Lol...also, there are DACT and gold point which is cheaper but just as good performances
Funny, RK50 is known for it quality and performance, Sony never known this ? Lol...also, there are DACT and gold point which is cheaper but just as good performances
Is this thing way too expensive - heck yeah x 100.
Will I ever buy it - no fing way.
Do we even know who this is for - no idea, apparently not the engineers themselves too, at least that's my impression.
However just like Suyama-san of Fitear said on Twitter - that's what makes it interesting. Exactly, where's the fun and innovation if everything you do is so by the rule books. And I'd also be lying if I say it wasn't one of the best pairing with the MDR-Z1R I've head thus far.
Just talking with Sato-san and picking his brains on this device results in so many tasty nuggets - take the volume knob. So this is the first time they're experimenting with using "exotic" analog volume pods, originally they were thinking of sticking with tried and true digital control but though "why not?" and here it is. I took this a step further and asked him does that mean the next Walkman will feature an analog volume pod? His answer was "nah, it doesn't have any effect in a portable, by the way did you know there is no dedicated digital audio volume control chip? That's wrong, I'm gonna see if we can get some fabricated so we can use them.". This is why I love talking to Sato-san, he's crazy, but in the good way.
Yea, so as I said. It a technology demo where they throw everything including the kitchen sink at it and see what they can come up with. It's just that they decided to make it commercially available. Acer told me the same thing about the Predator 21X, it's a design exercise and a PR tech demo, knowing that they may never recoup the development cost or make any profit from it.
They know it by reputation, but they never used it in their own products nor has first hand experience in its effects, there's a difference. Everyone knows a decade ago Sony wasn't making any system that costs enough to justify having a 800 dollar knob on it and they keep making their stuff cheaper, in that sort of work environment I don't think you can get away with asking for the budget to test these things.