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That is exactly it! Many people automatically be thinking that M2 doesn’t have bit-perfect playbacks, which is wrong. In technical Applications terms, there is no such thing as bit perfects. Yes, they always try to keep the information to be as close as the original. But that doesn’t really happen. If you ever rip a CD by Exact Audio Copy, you would see it is either 98% or 99%. That means you already altered some information right then and there. That means since we are in digital domains, there will always be algorithms in place to do “errors corrections“.
If anyone is thinking that streaming doesn’t face the same consequences, then they are wrong. Your routers for example, nowadays are all common uses routers, they are mainly aiming at speed, and stability, and with minimal engineerings for every other parameters, including noises, interferences, information accuracy….etc…
We can go on and on about this. I, myself, do love the ability to buy the albums straight from QoBuz, downloading it in minutes if not seconds, having all the album arts and tags. But I gotta tell you that having a CD, then using Exact Audio copy, having the files all out into WAV, is more satisfying. It is also the closest bit-perfects you would think on practicality. But then again, the process from the original recordings, into a CD, and continuously burned to productions by the studios. Don’t you think there would be “error corrections and algorithms ?” Well, at least, you get to cut out the wireless router as a factors, your internet providers…etc…then again, we can keep on going.
So, once you realized all that, the questions would be “is there really a bit-perfect ?” Not really, if you keep on going on and on and on about how a bit-perfect is defined ! You can use the term loosely that as long as the Samples rates from your files is not going to be resampled by the Operating System, then it is considered “pure-audio”. In this case, M2 Walkman is Bit-perfect.
The search function in W-app is amazing : you can search in artist, titles, albums, and play all of them right there
Yes, I don’t like the streaming apps playing my music. I do use it in a pinch like an iPhone to my CarPlay when I crave music and don’t have my DAP. Even in the car, I prefer Bluetooth from DAP to my car. I even have HDD connecting to my car head unit. Most of the time when I ”need“ qobuz, it is because I want to “test out” new remastered album or new album
In the end, why don’t we ask such question “who invented and pioneered most of the digital empire ?” “Who knows and is dedicated so much toward digital medias ? In both, movies, music ?”
Isn't it Sony ? If so, who can do Sampling, Re-sampling, Up-sampling better than Sony ?
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