SONY NW-WM1Z / WM1A
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May 7, 2018 at 11:33 AM Post #20,281 of 45,723
So the Cradle lets you off-board your 1Z/1A to any old DAC/DAP around the house? I'll have to try that if true!
Yes, as long as your DAC/DAP has USB input.
This cradle has a specific circuits with some capacitors for USB output (I guess noise suppression). I use Audio Quest Cinnamon USB cable to connect the cradle with my various DACs (Hugo 2, Klipsch Heritage, iFi xDSD, AK ACRO L1000, etc.).
 
May 7, 2018 at 1:31 PM Post #20,282 of 45,723


Oh.....great.....there is another cable better than mine (which you have) for the Z1R.

It never ends..... now I have to get one!

I’ve felt absolutely no desire to upgrade or replace anything the last year since I got the Sony signature products apart from the Beoplay E8 true wireless in ears
 
May 7, 2018 at 2:41 PM Post #20,283 of 45,723
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I’ve felt absolutely no desire to upgrade or replace anything the last year since I got the Sony signature products apart from the Beoplay E8 true wireless in ears
 
May 7, 2018 at 3:01 PM Post #20,284 of 45,723
I’ve felt absolutely no desire to upgrade or replace anything the last year since I got the Sony signature products apart from the Beoplay E8 true wireless in ears
Currently i am just upgrading Music files from CD to HR
 
May 7, 2018 at 3:22 PM Post #20,285 of 45,723
In truth, other than an Audioquest USB cable, I’m pretty much done spending for now. I’m very happy with the Z1R/TAZH1ES combo. It’s going to be fun to hear the combo with a vinyl front-end in about 10 days too.

I’m sure there are upgrades in sound from the Sony MUC-B20SB1 cable, but I’m pretty happy the way things sound now.
 
May 7, 2018 at 10:06 PM Post #20,287 of 45,723
I’ve felt absolutely no desire to upgrade or replace anything the last year since I got the Sony signature products apart from the Beoplay E8 true wireless in ears
Same here.. I got 2 of the 3 Sony signature products.. the Sony wm1z and Sony z1r, got balanced kimber cable for z1r and effect audio lion heart cable balanced for my kaiser k10 CIEM.. this should hold me for a long time..

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May 7, 2018 at 10:15 PM Post #20,289 of 45,723
Currently i am just upgrading Music files from CD to HR

Wow! With over 700 CDs, it would cost me a fortune to do that, so 16/44 is fine for me. Only my absolute favorite CDs would have a chance to get upgraded.
 
May 7, 2018 at 10:35 PM Post #20,290 of 45,723
I am not upgrading all, just the one i can find as HR or the ones i like most. New purchases first check if is Hi-res available then CD version... i've got 3,157 albums (of these 126 are Hi-res,and a s subset of Hi-res 46 are SACD rips) most of them CD quality
 
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May 7, 2018 at 11:13 PM Post #20,291 of 45,723
Wow! With over 700 CDs, it would cost me a fortune to do that, so 16/44 is fine for me. Only my absolute favorite CDs would have a chance to get upgraded.
Amazingly I think the upscale effect does fine adding just a slight boost of air to 16bit-44.1mHz. I also have around 3000 CDs and could never find them in HD, I don’t think. I also listen to a lot of eclectic and underground music I never see being brought out in HD.

That’s what the Signature Series is about I think. “Making the most out of your music.” It’s a digital microscope which allows the listener to get slighly closer and slightly more intimate with music they have known for years. All this detail with slight warmth getting digital closer to the musicality of analog. Yet bringing along an ease of use and clarity which surpasses analog in joyful daily playback. The only time we are in trouble in when that vinyl master was remastered for CD and they missed the mark. There is no help in that situation, but the Signature Series makes the best of it allowing brickwalled or wrongfully mastered stuff to at least sound warm and palpable.



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I am not upgrading all, just the one i can find as HR or the ones i like most. New purchases first check if is Hi-res available then CD version... i've got 3,157 albums (of these 126 are Hi-res,and a s subset of Hi-res 46 are SACD rips) most of them CD quality
 
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May 7, 2018 at 11:41 PM Post #20,293 of 45,723
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I've had the wm1a for about a week now and it's great so far. Yet to try balanced waiting on cables and adapters we'll see I don't expect night and day changes. Battery life is really a winner.
 
May 7, 2018 at 11:49 PM Post #20,294 of 45,723


I've had the wm1a for about a week now and it's great so far. Yet to try balanced waiting on cables and adapters we'll see I don't expect night and day changes. Battery life is really a winner.

You may be pleasantly surprised by 4.4mm?
 
May 7, 2018 at 11:55 PM Post #20,295 of 45,723


I've had the wm1a for about a week now and it's great so far. Yet to try balanced waiting on cables and adapters we'll see I don't expect night and day changes. Battery life is really a winner.

You will be pleasantly surprised by the swap to 4.4
 
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