[beaux]

The reason Apple ditched the IPods & classic as they were getting less sales of their iPods. As the iPhone does the same thing as their iPod except iPod was not a phone. I doubt Sony will do the same thing unless they don’t get many sales, & want to focus on the Sony smart phone. I particularly don’t like streaming as it loses sound quality. Some streaming companies don’t last long either. It was ITunes or high Rez downloads that caused most of the music shops to shut down which is shame I like the physical CD. With streaming you don’t own the music either.

If the 40th Anniversary Walkman premium sounds better than the Sony WM1Z I’ll buy it. Bring on 2019 we have time to save.

Someone in CES heard from sony engineer that they are designing a new walkman at price of 1 million yuen.

 

[nc8000]

Don't know why ZIP is not good with PCM data.

But i zipped some DSD albums for testing, i got in 30 minutes (playing with memory size and word length can speed times and better compression ratio) i got a 55%-60% ratio so the album was 3.11GB and got reduced to a 1.61GB zip archive.

BUUUUT, I think i will leave them as they are, huge, because i don't trust zip files lol. What if scenario pops in my mind.. what if a bit corruption and the files is made unexpandable, unaccessible hmmm

In that case you can’t trust flac either as that is a compression just like zip

 

[gerelmx1986]

At least with FLAC the file is still playable, you may hear some popping or skipping noises, unlike zip when you try to open it, it refuses to open saying the CRC was corrupted

 

[Cagin]

Someone in CES heard from sony engineer that they are designing a new walkman at price of 1 million yuen.

7.6K euro... I see, I see. They hired Charles Altmann or what?

 

[Quadfather]

7.6K euro... I see, I see. They hired Charles Altmann or what?

At some point the price becomes ridiculous.

 

[ledzep]

At some point the price becomes ridiculous.

If I and others hadn't bought this in 1980 there wouldn't be any 40th anniversary Walkman so if you want to thank me you can crowd fund me one if you want !

 

[sne4me]

At some point the price becomes ridiculous.

No more ridiculous than a Bugatti or Lexus LFA. For example, Paris Hilton owns one. You make them in super limited quantities and only VIP can access it, which greatly improves the value of the brand.

Plus with the push into High resolution audio at Sony music, I wouldn’t be surprised to see their label produce some of the best recordings of the next 10 years. This further insulates their profitability against companies like apple which are pushing wireless low resolution products. Its really a smart move

 

[kubig123]

7.6K euro... I see, I see. They hired Charles Altmann or what?

Well, if it will make coffee too, I could consider it.

 

[Quadfather]

Well, if it will make coffee too, I could consider it.

I own a Questyle QP1R, a Lotoo Paw Gold Diana, and a Sony NW-WM1A. I love them all and there are minor degrees of sound quality separating them but they are all different. $9,000 for the new Sony? No. I may find a used Sony NW-WM1Z for a few thousand dollars but that's about the most

 

[gerelmx1986]

158K pesos, mmm i'd better get a brand new WM1Z lol

 

[Whitigir]

Funny....$9000 for a Walkman ? Ok, Sony is not out to rip people off. The price seems like a funny goal and target, but what technology will it have ? Beside, the pricing rumor may be just a “hoax”.

The good news is that, new Walkman is being developed.

Hell, I am ready to sell my 1Z...lol!

 

[Redcarmoose]

Spoiler: Million

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Someone in CES heard from sony engineer that they are designing a new walkman at price of 1 million yuen.

 

[Jalo]

Well if the new Walkman is made of a solid piece of Silver, comes with 1Tb SSD and 1watt of output power, I will be interested.

 

[sne4me]

Well if the new Walkman is made of a solid piece of Silver, comes with 1Tb SSD and 1watt of output power, I will be interested.

Well that’s just the thing, people’s big complaints with wm1a were the storage. Add in nvme chips you will get a super fast sync and tons of storage but the price goes up significantly 1 buck a GB practically.

You know, people would like a wm1a that can do radio, maybe a really nice screen, requires expensive new processors to lower power, that requires new development costs. They want an amp feature, it’s got to really work great too. I could easily see a $5000 player at this point.

If sony sold a package that was iems and a walkman that could be $6000+

The iPhone X is what, 1200 bucks and it’s a piece of junk

 

[Tawek]

The radio in the walkman is nothing unusual is in Nwz x1060 and works great