The Walrus
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I am seriously considering buying this. But I have to ask; has any of you noticed any distortion?
Just received my PHA-3 and I'm surprisingly impressed with the improved sound signature compared to my previous PHA-2 using my Shure SE846s. Not sure if it's due to the balanced mode, the different cable (Moon Audio Black dragon) or just the PHA-3, but it does provide a major upgrade in SQ imho.
More space, more definition and separation between the instruments. Bass is tighter.
Happy camper so far.
how long it is taking to charge your device. mine is longer than 5 hours and still red light is on. do you use wall wart/plug or just computer?
also when i received a device there was already a charged tor run, is that normal?
As I said earlier, the issue is europeen electrical regulation rules. PHA-3 with battery doesnt match it.
My personnal guess is they didnt want to waste time to find a work around for such a niche market so they just removed the battery to solve the local law issue..... They better have not made it available here like PHA-1 & PHA-2 :S
If that is true I completely agree with you.... but i mailed Sony in Italy and they answered that the PHA-3 has a battery.... really confused right now, do not know what to think.... in the instruction manual they sent me by mail there are no info about charging time... this make me think that the customer service here doesn't really know the product... for sure if it's without battery i will never gonna buy it...
If you asked them about PHA-3....there is no mistake.
But you should get an other answer if you ask them about PHA-3AC
As an official Sony (Europe) Community Expert I can assure you that Europeen version doesn't come with a battery....which is sad...
You can check out my unboxing (english & german captions have been added) as a proof
You have to charge it full first time.
I use 4A modified wall charger that came with a USB hub. takes 2.5 hr max for full charge. never recharge if keep it connected to the wall charger. I mostly use it as a desktop device.
Hi. Could you please give a link to this charger? I see many different 4A chargers on ebay but I'm not sure if they all work...Thanks!
The problem is that i asked about the PHA-3 because on sony.it is the one that is being sold, no mention about the AC version... but in the mail they sent me the PHA-3 AC manual... so i believe what you are saying but i find it very frustrating and partially misleading by Sony... if it was not for this thread and you i would have bought it believing it was the same version sold in us and japan with lithium battery.... this is the link to Sony Italy http://www.sony.it/electronics/amplificatori-cuffie/pha-3 as you can see the one they are selling is the PHA-3 not the PHA-3 AC, and in the google search they advertise it like "amplificatore portatile per cuffie" i.e."portable headphone amplifier...".
Yeah I escalated the issue to Sony Europe & they are aware of that and will fix the pages (don't know when though lol). As you can see, "portatile" is only mentionnned on the windows frame but it's nowhere found on the product page description.
Well the "good" side is that you read this thread and knew about it before buying it!