The1Signature
1000+ Head-Fier
i, too, have the empy with the silver upgrade cable... i am coming soon my friend to enjoy the partyUsing it with my Meze Empyrean with the silver cable, it’s glorious!!
i, too, have the empy with the silver upgrade cable... i am coming soon my friend to enjoy the partyUsing it with my Meze Empyrean with the silver cable, it’s glorious!!
Same as you have issue with other DAP's. Companies producing DAP's live or die by the SQ, especially the smaller more focused providers. Sony plays a clever game to satiate the local market hence the walls of text, nor do I blame them as Sony indeed produces a very good product (DAP) and know how to play the game.I guess you are so right on this.
Sony should have worked on it's own OS, similar to other providers. Sadly Sony folded to Google. Kind of a bad joke when even the most fervent of fans advocate debloating Google's needless garbage. TBH if Sony was serous about SQ this conversation would not exist...and the best in class DAP OS one can get in this world.
Remember your the guy advocating to debloat the WM1Z M2 / WM1A M2 to improve performance & SQ, you cant have it both ways. Personally I don't care for any player with Google Android as the OS is obviously designed to capture user data not present the very best SQ possible. TBH painting other providers as not being serous regarding audio quality, while Sony has clearly folded to Google is laughable...Even with bloatware on top, the M2 walkman already performs at a level that exceeds whatever the previous models does.
I guess it's not ok to throw shade at other dap but perfectly fine to throw shade at Sony for android OS.
I fully support you in such premise, seriously so. Same as other members and myself if your going to put it out publicly you have to live with commentary be it positive or negative that's just how it is. FWIW we're closer than we are further apart, simply differing opinions, I like Sony HW a lot, however I don't buy into all it's sales & marketing spiel verbatim...I will continue to throw my opinion and posts as I please, laugh all you like, I seriously don't give a damn.
Looks like this time Sony can stick to their promise. Unlike the ZX507 which it can’t never seem to meet their battery number.Holy battery... After completing burn in, I decided to do a basic battery test. For consistency, I usually charge the dap up to 100% (all the battery saver stuff disabled in this case), play hi-res flac in a loop, wifi off, display off, just periodically checking the battery status. Here, I'm using Aroma Jewel IEM, 4.4mm balanced, high gain, volume set to 43 (normal listening level), wifi/BT off, display off, and playing 24bit FLAC in a loop using native Walkman app. The effects are ON, with DSEE Ultimate enabled, DC Phase Linerarizer set, and Vinyl effect enabled as well. As you can see, this is not exactly bare minimum, but rather a fully loaded local playback setup. Of course, display is mostly off, but that's how I do it in all of my DAP testing for consistency.
Well, so far been playing for 20.5 hrs and the battery is still at 32%. At this rate, I'm sure it will make it to 30hrs without a problem. Will also do another test run while streaming, curious how that will turn out to be. But so far, this is very impressive for WM1ZM2.
NiceHoly battery... After completing burn in, I decided to do a basic battery test. For consistency, I usually charge the dap up to 100% (all the battery saver stuff disabled in this case), play hi-res flac in a loop, wifi off, display off, just periodically checking the battery status. Here, I'm using Aroma Jewel IEM, 4.4mm balanced, high gain, volume set to 43 (normal listening level), wifi/BT off, display off, and playing 24bit FLAC in a loop using native Walkman app. The effects are ON, with DSEE Ultimate enabled, DC Phase Linerarizer set, and Vinyl effect enabled as well. As you can see, this is not exactly bare minimum, but rather a fully loaded local playback setup. Of course, display is mostly off, but that's how I do it in all of my DAP testing for consistency.
Well, so far been playing for 20.5 hrs and the battery is still at 32%. At this rate, I'm sure it will make it to 30hrs without a problem. Will also do another test run while streaming, curious how that will turn out to be. But so far, this is very impressive for WM1ZM2.
Very nice! Wonder what the burn rate will be for the battery with offline play for Apple Music (or one of the other music apps).Holy battery... After completing burn in, I decided to do a basic battery test. For consistency, I usually charge the dap up to 100% (all the battery saver stuff disabled in this case), play hi-res flac in a loop, wifi off, display off, just periodically checking the battery status. Here, I'm using Aroma Jewel IEM, 4.4mm balanced, high gain, volume set to 43 (normal listening level), wifi/BT off, display off, and playing 24bit FLAC in a loop using native Walkman app. The effects are ON, with DSEE Ultimate enabled, DC Phase Linerarizer set, and Vinyl effect enabled as well. As you can see, this is not exactly bare minimum, but rather a fully loaded local playback setup. Of course, display is mostly off, but that's how I do it in all of my DAP testing for consistency.
Well, so far been playing for 20.5 hrs and the battery is still at 32%. At this rate, I'm sure it will make it to 30hrs without a problem. Will also do another test run while streaming, curious how that will turn out to be. But so far, this is very impressive for WM1ZM2.