SONY NW-WM1Z / WM1A

If you can swing it, go for EE Phantom.

Its better in many ways than Andromeda and I have both. Its warm high resolution and good clarity and very versatile. If you can, get custom. Amazing timber, spot on on many instruments.

If you like treble then get Zeus.

 

JH Audio Lola has exceptional mids and is in your price range.

 

Zeus-XR does indeed have world class mid range and treble

 

I have the XBA-Z5 and they are on your price range. Balanced they sound smooth and wide. Unbalanced, hmm, a bit bloated but not a major issue. They are not completely closed so they let some outside world sounds come in, but that contributes to their large soundstage. (1DD and 2 BA)

 

My wm1a Is stuck in a reboot cycle, holding the power for 10 seconds does not work. Anybody know how to fix this?

 

Take out the MicroSD card, and reboot by holding power buttons for 30 secs

 

Mine is stuck also,

And this didnt work for me.

 

Mine is stuck also,

And this didnt work for me.

 

How long has yours been stuck for

 

Holding for 30 seconds did not help for me either

 

I think uam passing through my third hour now,

It was updating the database and took a very long time exceeding 30 min and it looked stuck to me, so i restarted the player, and has been looping since, feels so stupid and hurtful that i cant even shut it down LOL keeps rebooting.

I tried like others to update to v1.2 ot v2.0, but with no luck till now, on windows it keeps recognizing and unrecognizing the device and the update doesnt feel it at all.

On mac, nothing happens at all, doesnt even recognize thr device for me.

I tried lots of key combinations with the power button also no luck.

Thats all

 

It's very suspicious to me that this all seems to of happened at the same time for both of us. I had exactly the same experience

 

Connect the Walkman USB cable and resync with your computer.

 

Please dont tell me you were copying some new jazz music, because that will be very very weird and a bit horrifying.

 

Mine has had the issue of database corruption it restarts fine, rebuilds DB but partially, i need to go to settings > reset/format > rebuild database to make a new DB