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There is nothing wrong with doing an adapter from balanced to single ended
Then why did Sony not directly wired it to work native DSD on SE ? Remember, Walkman doesn't has your typical DAC....
There is nothing wrong with doing an adapter from balanced to single ended
Then why did Sony not directly wired it to work native DSD on SE ? Remember, Walkman doesn't has your typical DAC....
I just wonder that does anyplace make a 4.4mm female to 3.5mm male adapter ?
I think it's more for the convenience of using 4.4mm terminated cables with almost every other piece of audio equipment out there right now with 3.5mm sockets...for a JEITA standard, adoption of 4.4mm has been kinda paltry.
You mean something close to this (yeah I'm aware the below is to a 2.5mm TRRS instead of your 3.5mm male adapter): http://e4ua.jp/?p=2292
But this is a no joke 25,000 yen (~USD$222). A little too expensive for my tastes but extremely well done. I bought 2x square Pentaconn female socket and will solder the wires to male 2.5mm TRRS and 3.5mm TRS instead. Aesthetically won't end up as nice as the one above but should do the job. I'm wondering how the heck the maker above managed to squeeze in the Pentaconn female socket into a round housing unless he built a 4.4mm female socket entirely from scratch.
2) the Pentaconn ones are like Yen 5000 (~USD$4.42) each!
Hmm. Google Translate seems to suggest that this DIYer managed to squeeze the Pentaconn female jack into the housing. Can anyone with Japanese comprehension clarify this? I can hardly believe that that specific female connector (I have one from my last trip to Japan just lying around looking for a housing) can fit into such a tiny barrel.
He modified the jack by cutting it to make it fit.
Since the release, I haven't got the WM1A, getting it in early December from Japan.
You mean, you're waiting on delivery from last 3 months? Where did you make your purchase?
I think it's more for the convenience of using 4.4mm terminated cables with almost every other piece of audio equipment out there right now with 3.5mm sockets...for a JEITA standard, adoption of 4.4mm has been kinda paltry.
I was having music skipping problems and songs (in wav & FLAC) playing halfway and stopped with message incompatible format.
After updating to the latest firmware, I'm still having this issue.
Any of you guys face this issue?
I don't think its the files as the same files plays perfectly in my other DAPs.
Sony doesn't use any typical DAC, more like clocking and mechanical works to interpreted digital signals through a filter circuitry and into class D amplification to get the Walkman working. Therefore, balanced circuitry will have 2 Separated lines of works intended for each channel. We all know each channel carries it own signals.
So ask yourself again, what if you short these channels together ?
I can not stop people to destroy their own player and Walkman. But I would never help them make it happen though
I think you're thinking of something else - the adaptor is 4.4mm female to 3.5 single ended male for use with other single ended sources. Balanced cables can be converted through such converters to other balanced standards (4.4mm to 2.5mm, for example) or single ended 3.5mm/6.3mm by connecting both grounds to the unified ground of single ended - the only unsafe converter that would not work is 3.5mm single ended female to 4.4mm balanced male which would lead to short circuiting and damage for the DAP, headphone or both.
I just wonder that does anyplace make a 4.4mm female to 3.5mm male adapter ?
Ah, he was asking about an adaptor to go from 4.4mm Male into 3.5 SE connection. If that is the case, it would work. I am in fact going to make one soon, very soon. Actually 2x, but one is reserved
For a moment I thought he was asking about using 4.4mm Balanced out on the Walkman into an SE headphones