Sorry. This is nonsense! No one needs a balanced output or other "hir-es gimmicks" while listening music on the street.
The other "funny thing" is the 200 hour joke.... sorry. I'm not at home while using a MOBILE player!
I had a MDR-1A, but I hate cable while using a mobile player!
I don't use smart phone (have no one!) or a tablet for listening music on the street! BT isn't a bonus - neither LDAC nor AptX-HD BT - Sony implemented this as new standard and the latest FW offers the Apt-Codec.
The ZX300 is a mobile player with a lot of gimmicks (and nonsense). I want to use things like balance, 10 EQ and a long battery time! These gimmicks are relevant not a "balanced output" or other +things while using the player on the street! I'm a mobile player user! At home, I use a NAS, Squeezebox and RX3060! I bought my 1000XM to use it with a SONY mobile player with LDAC! Now, the headphones are useless!
Two years later and Sony has forgotten to support LDAC in a better way! This is not funny and I really pissed!
1. I did not say you have to listen using the balanced output "on the street", although you could, you just need a pair of headphones that's isolated enough or compatible with the balanced output and sport active noise cancellation (like, for instance, the Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 wireless with the right balanced 4.4mm cable)
2. I did say there is no difference whatsoever in sound when using a (much cheaper and affordable) LDAC compatible smartphone as opposed to using a high end walkman series device (which there is no point to purchase if you are only using wirelessly)
3. The app is available on iOS and Android, it also does not work with the MDR-1000X (but obviously that pair of headphones isn't worth €400 anymore, which is what you claimed it does on your original post)
4. Because you can't use the EQ over bluetooth doesn't make your headphones useless, I use my own WH-1000XM2 over bluetooth with the NW-ZX300 while commuting and they sound and work just fine.
5. The 200hrs burn-in requirement is not a "joke" or a placebo, it exists because of the capacitors present on your device (I would indulge you on a basic lesson about electronics and sound engineering, but err... I have better things to do of my time)
6. If you want the EQ over LDAC and a great battery life, why not stick with the NW-ZX100 which you appear to already possess?
7. Feel free to address complaints to directly to Sony's support about this issue.
8. Because the NW-ZX300 is portable does not mean you can't use it to have listening sessions at home with high end or even open back headphones (which I'd never use on the go for obvious reasons!) or that you can't bring your device to someone else's place or your office, to me the advantage of using the walkman series is to have the equivalent of a high end DAC+AMP combo in a portable footprint which I can carry around wherever I need, the ability to listen to music on the go is certainly nice but it comes second, not to mention without an active noise cancellation or properly isolated IEMs listening to music on a commute is going to be greatly impair your experience.
9. Again, yes you really can listen to music on the go using the balanced output given that you use the proper headphones (for example the MDR-1A is not suited to be used on a commute because it has very poor noise isolation).
