[The1Signature]

42%? Fell from Truck?

"local electronics store" is a code word, 100% sure.

 

[Morphology77]

"local electronics store" is a code word, 100% sure.

Not code word. B-Stock unit with minor damage in the box. Flawless unit with full warranty

 

[jehutyset]

Many thanks for answers regarding Google account - I don´t need one.
Managed to find NW-WM1AM2 from local electronics store for 42% off from MRSP + 128GB microSD as freebie.

Great device! Really happy so far

That’s a hell of a deal, damn congrats.

 

[WAmadeusM]

Source. Source. Source.

Loudness Wars have made much of the audiophile claims moot. Streaming is using LW remasters for rock and pop. Hires streamed compressed clipped files.

Even a beloved recording like the 60s Solti Decca Wagner Ring Cycle remasters this year is compressed and has clipping.

In orchestral music....at 192khz! Here's how the original 1985 CD compares to the CD layer of the new SACD.
Yes. It's a cultural crime. 4k cables and stream it LOUDALLTHETIME

 

[justsomesonyfan]

Source. Source. Source.

Loudness Wars have made much of the audiophile claims moot. Streaming is using LW remasters for rock and pop. Hires streamed compressed clipped files.

Even a beloved recording like the 60s Solti Decca Wagner Ring Cycle remasters this year is compressed and has clipping.

In orchestral music....at 192khz! Here's how the original 1985 CD compares to the CD layer of the new SACD.
Yes. It's a cultural crime. 4k cables and stream it LOUDALLTHETIME

One of the reasons I've switched to mainly high quality vinyl rips

 

[WAmadeusM]

One of the reasons I've switched to mainly high quality vinyl rips

One way. But vinyl is too compromised for me in other ways- with the pink noise added by the friction of playback being the smooth that vinylheads love - but to me its just a sound MSG addiditive. Digital done correctly is faithful to source magnetic tape masters. It's the Loudness Wars madness that has wrecked music reproduction, and contemporary music creation, in so many ways.

 

[justsomesonyfan]

One way. But vinyl is too compromised for me in other ways- with the pink noise added by the friction of playback being the smooth that vinylheads love - but to me its just an sound MSG addiditive. Digital done correctly is faithful to source magnetic tape masters. It's the Loudness Wars madness that has wrecked music reproduction, and contemporary music creation, in so many ways.

I agree, cd has way better potential, sadly good mastered cds are rare nowadays

 

[Iggnasty]

Many thanks for answers regarding Google account - I don´t need one.
Managed to find NW-WM1AM2 from local electronics store for 42% off from MRSP + 128GB microSD as freebie.

Great device! Really happy so far

42 % !!! Any blood on the box?

 

[Vamp898]

I agree, cd has way better potential, sadly good mastered cds are rare nowadays

They pretty much no longer exists. At least in my experience. They expect that audiophiles buy the Hi-Res audio version and use the better mix for that one

 

[Bigbeat]

Here's how the original 1985 CD compares to the CD layer of the new SACD.
Yes. It's a cultural crime. 4k cables and stream it LOUDALLTHETIME

What dynamic range is there on the SACD layer?

 

[WAmadeusM]

What dynamic range is there on the SACD layer?

Yes. That's where they got me to buy it yet again. Because what they did - whatever about baking master tapes - was use the same compressed clipped file and drop the master level by -5db

I kid you not. HR v extracted .dsf SACD file first.

Now here's the kicker....in 2012 they released a bluray audio disc at 24/48khz. Now setting aside issues of the previous 1997 remastering and dehiss tech use - in simple 'what I can see in the waveform is what I can hear'...as the Don says in The Godfather: "look how they mess with my boy"

 

[Ryokan]

You see, its the same. Because its an Full Digital Amp. The S-Master HX will do the exact same things on 120/120 Low Gain and on 060/120 High Gain. It will have the identical performance.

The S-Master HX is made with switching MOSFET. If you are amplifying with the same Voltage, the result will always be the same.

There is no reason why the MOSFET should behave different on High Gain than on Low Gain, why would they? There is no need and no reason to.

That is all the High Gain Switch does. It remaps, what is 120/120 and the steps in between. Nothing more, nothing less.

With any Dap is it better to stay on low gain even if volume is approaching max? Is having more power sometimes beneficial with an iem rated 32Ohm+ and using high gain with low volume?

 

[Vamp898]

With any Dap is it better to stay on low gain even if volume is approaching max? Is having more power sometimes beneficial with an iem rated 32Ohm+ and using high gain with low volume?

If you have more power, the volume is louder.

It is impossible to listen at the same volume but have more power. Same volume means same power.

With the Walkman, it doesn't matter if you use high gain or low gain, but on low gain you have finer control over the volume and protection to blow the IEM

But in terms of quality, it doesn't matter

 

[andrewski]

If you have more power, the volume is louder.

It is impossible to listen at the same volume but have more power. Same volume means same power.

With the Walkman, it doesn't matter if you use high gain or low gain, but on low gain you have finer control over the volume and protection to blow the IEM

But in terms of quality, it doesn't matter

Then why have two gain settings at all. Why not 240 steps in normal gain?

 

[justsomesonyfan]

Then why have two gain settings at all. Why not 240 steps in normal gain?

IIRC high gain in first gen ran through extra caps or overclocked them or something, i don't remember, something along those lines. gain definitely makes sound changes though, I can survive 60 on high gain easily, but 120 will absolutely destroy my ear drums no questions asked.