The most under-rated and over it's price point Sony audio product i feel is the MDR-1AM2. This headphone's sound quality is way beyond it's asking price. It's fun bassy sound signature works really well for Rock and Modern Pop Music. Easy to drive and very much sibilant-free(vs the ear piercing ATH MSR-7). If I must sell all my headphones and stick to one headphone for life/bring one headphone to live on a lighthouse for a year, this MDR-1AM2 will be my life choice.
Never mind the question, ended buying the flacs from chandos records. The 16/48 were AAC upsampled to "Flac" (checked them with spek spectrum analyzer after they sounded odd on the walkman
Hi just want to be sure walkman wm1a is MQA compatible? if using it as dac via iphone lightning to usb, say for tidal, it is doing MQA transcode natively? thanks in advance love the wm1a, only missing is the streaming apps, at least in my use case,
Hi just want to be sure walkman wm1a is MQA compatible? if using it as dac via iphone lightning to usb, say for tidal, it is doing MQA transcode natively? thanks in advance love the wm1a, only missing is the streaming apps, at least in my use case,
No it doesn't have MQA decoding capabilities. That should not be a problem considering that MQA is a utter nonsense. This format was made to make money on licencing products and for streaming services so they can save storage space. Oh and it's lossy.
Hi just want to be sure walkman wm1a is MQA compatible? if using it as dac via iphone lightning to usb, say for tidal, it is doing MQA transcode natively? thanks in advance love the wm1a, only missing is the streaming apps, at least in my use case,
It plays mqa files natively. I don’t know if the Tidal app will send an encoded mqa signal to an external dac or if the 1A can handle a mqa stream in dac mode
No it doesn't have MQA decoding capabilities. That should not be a problem considering that MQA is a utter nonsense. This format was made to make money on licencing products and for streaming services so they can save storage space. Oh and it's lossy.
Firmware 2.0 added APE and MQA decoding. Don't know the details of how much of the MQA unfolding it can do. As the change was done via updating firmware, I conjecture that the hardware capability was baked in, so it may be able to unfold fully. As I said, though, I don't know the details, so you'll have to do some research on that.
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love the wm1a, only missing is the streaming apps, at least in my use case,
