Gamerlingual
Headphoneus Supremus
The standard FE for me is king. MrWalkman did a stupendous job and he’s being a huge gift to the community. Thank you as always
I’m still in awe on what @MrWalkman had done with FE plus. It even replaces R8 as the pairing to my external amp, the Romi BX-2+ to drive Diana V2. With the FE, soundstage width is still not as wide as R8, but the FE+ brings it on par with R8’s soundstage. Also, the FE+ brought the extra oomph at the sub-bass level making it the ideal source for this setup
With this revolutionary firmware, you should be crowned the Sony Walkman Guru! Thank you very much MrWalkman for the impeccable work! I'm using this fantastic FW on both my moded and unmoded WM1a. Beers coming up soon!
Approc 8h hours played on FE+, battery reached last bar, not yet blinking, so yeah can nwumes more battery, but, boy the sound makes me not care how fast battery drains
Approc 8h hours played on FE+, battery reached last bar, not yet blinking, so yeah can nwumes more battery, but, boy the sound makes me not care how fast battery drains
Hi @MrWalkman do you think it's possible for the ClearAudio feature to be made available to ZX300, or a feature which is something similar? I got really curious about that since there were many good feedbacks regarding its sound improvements for the current and cheaper Walkman models.
Approc 8h hours played on FE+, battery reached last bar, not yet blinking, so yeah can nwumes more battery, but, boy the sound makes me not care how fast battery drains
Nice. But the first battery bar always lasts the longest. After which the other bars dissapear quite fast. But it’s good you’re doing the test.I'm currently testing how long will the battery last on FE Plus.
- Battery charged to 100% with Battery Care setting off
- Direct Source on
- High Gain
- Sony Z7M2 connected to the balanced port at a volume of 75 (my usual listening volume under these circumstances).
The songs being played are mostly 16/44 FLAC files, with one album being 24/44, and a few MQA ones maybe - I'll take a look afterwards.
I'm using the screen only to check how much battery is left. The point is about the Plus mode consuming more battery when playing music anyway, not about the screen.
I started playing at 1:20 am, and after around 4.5 hours the battery still has all the bars.
Hey, at this stage that would mean porting the A50 firmware for example, which I don't think it's worth spending time on.
You would lose the high gain option for example, the native DSD playing, etc.
"Sound improvements" of ClearAudio+ is processing the music by greatly boosting the bass, which makes stuff sound very boomy, and also adding some kind of hall effect. I certainly don't find it improving stuff.
When I first had some headphones, I thought that lows are boomy in songs, which was something interesting/cool, to have as much bass as possible, but in the end it was tiring. You would think it sounds cool, but you couldn't listen for too long until you got sick of that sound.
That's how ClearAudio+ is like - it sounds "cool", but your ears get tired of it quickly.
It was very interesting and refreshing to find some more normal/neutral headphones and actually hear how the song should sound like.