It was just a joke because it has a DMP-Z1 gold knob, like they made a mini DMP-Z1 to replace the 1Z. A joke..........as you know at some point maybe they will try and miniaturize the DMP-Z1..........And Walkman prices WOULD fall.
Tubes have been around for long time. Good sound but they needed to be change when getting too old. FPGA's is the new stuff. No need for maintaince, reprogramable, and a lot more power efficient.
Tubes have been around for long time. Good sound but they needed to be change when getting too old. FPGA's is the new stuff. No need for maintaince, reprogramable, and a lot more power efficient.
Hmm, I thought tubes were around in the 60's maybe even older.
But anyway, class AB amplifier is the best for DAPs but how hot it gonna be, is it portable enough, how often for tubes replacement, and what is a battery life?
Before they had amplifiers radios had big horn like things so they looked like those victrola record players. Henry Ford had a huge collection of these radios and as people didn’t have AC, they ran off of batteries. Later the first amps were made with 300b tubes. The 300b tubes were so reliable they put a 300b amplifier in the middle of the Atlantic under the ocean to boost the telephone signal from New York to London. But still in Hi/Fi... stereos didn’t really become loud or mainstream until the early 1960s. What you have to remember is most of this gear was just too expensive for most people. The 1958 Fisher 500 cost 1/3 of the price of a car and was mono. Nice sound but mono. Another big American manufacturer was HH Scott.
The thing was that by 1962 they were making 42 watt home stereo amps which were way way louder than anything before. That’s why many consider the early 1960s to be the beginning of Hi/Fi. I had one of these as my main headphone amp until I purchased a Woo 5LE in 2009. Amazing that really this technology works as good today as it did in 1962.
Before they had amplifiers radios had big horn like things so they looked like those victrola record players. Henry Ford had a huge collection of these radios and as people didn’t have AC, they ran off of batteries. Later the first amps were made with 300b tubes. The 300b tubes were so reliable they put a 300b amplifier in the middle of the Atlantic under the ocean to boost the telephone signal from New York to London. But still in Hi/Fi... stereos didn’t really become loud or mainstream until the early 1960s. What you have to remember is most of this gear was just too expensive for most people. The 1958 Fisher 500 cost 1/3 of the price of a car and was mono. Nice sound but mono. Another big American manufacturer was HH Scott.
The thing was that by 1962 they were making 42 watt home stereo amps which were way way louder than anything before. That’s why many consider the early 1960s to be the beginning of Hi/Fi. I had one of these as my main headphone amp until I purchased a Woo 5LE in 2009. Amazing that really this technology works as good today as it did in 1962.
WoW that is some history!
Reading that make think that we really live in amazing times and soon technology going to boom so high and bring more affordable audio gear to us.
I still am very skeptical on how anyone would even do this test. Number one you would have to hope that you had the same exact cable made by the same manufacturer and same brand of both 3.5mm and 4.4mm plug. Just those requirements are next to impossible. The next thing you would need to do is actually measure the volume level before listening as the 4.4mm output is going to be way louder...........and that in and of itself is singlehandedly responsible for a laundry list of wrong perception ideas. But EVEN if you did do all those things exactly correct many believe you may hear better 4.4mm separation and imaging even if the IEM was easy to drive. Still everyone’s hearing is different and some wouldn’t notice the improvement. Where we get unquestionably great improvements is 4.4mm on something like the XBA-Z5.
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