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Nov 29, 2016 at 8:39 AM Post #512 of 2,463
tcdv said:
Am I a Philistine? but I actually quite like the sound on this with VPT (studio) turned on for a number of albums.
I'm sure this messes with the true sound but it does make some albums more fun. Anybody else like the VPT mode?
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I listen to J-Pop every now and then, turning it on makes the song sounds distorted and weird. Haven't tried with classical or other kinds of music
 
Nov 29, 2016 at 11:13 AM Post #513 of 2,463
I'm listening to a range of music but so far VPT studio isn't sounding distorted to me and the more expansive sound on my headphones makes the majority of music more enjoyable. I never though I would like one of these effects!
 
Nov 29, 2016 at 5:20 PM Post #517 of 2,463
I just got the Walkman NW-A36HN from Accessory Jack about 4 days ago.  So far I love this little device, really pleased with the sound so far and I know it will sound even better once the capacitors get fully burned in.
 
I know many of you have discussed earlier about the build being plastic.  Mine feels very cool to the touch, are we sure the housing of this thing is plastic???
 
Nov 29, 2016 at 5:21 PM Post #518 of 2,463
Hi everyone,
 
Just got the A35 and have been encountering problems with various SD cards. I have 3 of them: Samsung 128 GB, Sony 64 GB (which I got with my previous purchase of A17 some time ago) and Sandisk 200 GB.
128 GB works totally fine. Today, I've started loading all my music onto the new 200 GB card as 128 GB was not enough. I transferred about 50 GB at work and disconnected the player - it created the database and all worked fine. Problems started when I returned home and loaded the rest (have about 15 GB free left). I disconnected it again and when it started creating the database, the player shut down and started restarting half way and there's no stop to it. I've had the same thing with the Sony 64 GB card which I have tried a few times.
The card is perfectly seen by my laptop when I connect the player in mass storage mode. 
 
All cards are formatted in exFAT. Player is on 1.02, but it was the same on 1.00. I use drag and drop on a Mac (10.12.1) to load the music.
 
Need help! 
 
Thank you.
 
P.S. Other than that - the player is great and I love it. Really big improvement over A17, which I had before.
 
Nov 29, 2016 at 11:53 PM Post #520 of 2,463
Haven't bought my A30 yet. Current planned for purchase for early next year.

But am really hoping Dignis would release a leather case for the A30. Their A10/A20 case really looks amazing. And the WM1A/Z case is already work in progress. :)

On a side note, what other cases are you guys using with the A30 apart from the official cases?
 
Nov 30, 2016 at 2:49 AM Post #521 of 2,463
dmitry zaretsky said:
  Hi everyone,
 
Just got the A35 and have been encountering problems with various SD cards. I have 3 of them: Samsung 128 GB, Sony 64 GB (which I got with my previous purchase of A17 some time ago) and Sandisk 200 GB.
128 GB works totally fine. Today, I've started loading all my music onto the new 200 GB card as 128 GB was not enough. I transferred about 50 GB at work and disconnected the player - it created the database and all worked fine. Problems started when I returned home and loaded the rest (have about 15 GB free left). I disconnected it again and when it started creating the database, the player shut down and started restarting half way and there's no stop to it. I've had the same thing with the Sony 64 GB card which I have tried a few times.
The card is perfectly seen by my laptop when I connect the player in mass storage mode. 
 
All cards are formatted in exFAT. Player is on 1.02, but it was the same on 1.00. I use drag and drop on a Mac (10.12.1) to load the music.
 
Need help! 
 
Thank you.
 
P.S. Other than that - the player is great and I love it. Really big improvement over A17, which I had before.
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Maybe try turning off the player, taking out the SD card, then turning the player back on to make sure it's working fine. Then, put the SD card in your computer, reformat it and load all your music on, then turn off your player and put the SD card back in. Let it turn on and build the database without it plugged into USB - it should work fine. It might be overkill to do this but that's how I loaded my music the first time.
 
I'm using a Samsung 256gb card with 170gb of ALAC on it and it never had any problems. Another tip is using the Microsoft SyncToy tool to set up a one-way sync between my computer music folder and the mounted SD card. When I plug my Walkman into my computer via USB I just run the SyncToy and all my updated files are transferred over.
 
Nov 30, 2016 at 4:17 AM Post #522 of 2,463
lbbef said:
Haven't bought my A30 yet. Current planned for purchase for early next year.

But am really hoping Dignis would release a leather case for the A30. Their A10/A20 case really looks amazing. And the WM1A/Z case is already work in progress.
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On a side note, what other cases are you guys using with the A30 apart from the official cases?
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Yeah, that's the only thing that's stopping me from buying the A30... No case available here in the PH. :( I'm a scratch monster. 
 
Nov 30, 2016 at 7:24 AM Post #523 of 2,463
Burn this player in guys. When I first got it, I find my lossless flac files sounding veiled compared to my AK120 1st gen (it's a warmish sounding player and best implementation of the dual wolfson dac imho). Treble rich sounded slightly muddy too. As I just acquired a Cavalli Liquid Carbon, I was using the player to burn in my amp for 50hrs as of now. I decided to take my player out for a listen and to my surprise, the veil is gone. Treble extension is clearer and everything sounds more coherent. I nearly cannot believe my ears. I have 150hours more burn in on my Cavalli and will report back if any further changes happen to the Aw30. Im using zero sound enhancements and listening with Noble K10UAs on version 1.0.
 
Nov 30, 2016 at 7:49 AM Post #524 of 2,463
oakbloke said:
 
Maybe try turning off the player, taking out the SD card, then turning the player back on to make sure it's working fine. Then, put the SD card in your computer, reformat it and load all your music on, then turn off your player and put the SD card back in. Let it turn on and build the database without it plugged into USB - it should work fine. It might be overkill to do this but that's how I loaded my music the first time.
 
I'm using a Samsung 256gb card with 170gb of ALAC on it and it never had any problems. Another tip is using the Microsoft SyncToy tool to set up a one-way sync between my computer music folder and the mounted SD card. When I plug my Walkman into my computer via USB I just run the SyncToy and all my updated files are transferred over.
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Thank you - I have tried to load the music through a card reader first and that's when it didn't work. Now I have reformatted the card with the player itself and loading the music in 7-10 GB bits rebuilding database every time. Approx 40 GB in right now. So far so good fingers crossed.
 
Nov 30, 2016 at 7:55 AM Post #525 of 2,463
drgonzo said:
  I just got the Walkman NW-A36HN from Accessory Jack about 4 days ago.  So far I love this little device, really pleased with the sound so far and I know it will sound even better once the capacitors get fully burned in.
 
I know many of you have discussed earlier about the build being plastic.  Mine feels very cool to the touch, are we sure the housing of this thing is plastic???
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Cool to the touch eh? Another characteristic that points to magnesium
 
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