[asquare3376]

Thanks a lot. It worked super great with the Coaxial cable.

Happy to help, always!

 

[Daroid]

Just wanted to chime in with an update regarding using USB cables longer than 5 meters and can only thank TSAVJason for making me look into that direction: I went fully mad and went for ethernet cable extension using a second-hand Icron USB 2.0 Ranger 2201 set and can report that this works wonderfully with the ZH1. No issues at all, and excellent build quality on the Icrons using a 7.5 m Lindy CAT6A S/FTP cable. I cannot really talk about "sonic benefits" as I'm sure I will have some unavoidable "new equipment" expectation bias.
 
Another thing I just noticed was this recent review, which I think is quite spot on - except that I find the remote highly useful: http://www.themasterswitch.com/review-sony-ta-zh1es
 
BTW: The Oppo UDP-203 + Sony TA-ZH1ES + Senn HD800S made me pull the trigger and compile a list containing $300 worth of CDs/HRx recordings from Reference Recordings after having re-listened to the two recordings I already have from them - definitely going to place that order tomorrow! (... who said record store day is only for vinyl records

)

 

[Sarnia]

 
Another thing I just noticed was this recent review, which I think is quite spot on - except that I find the remote highly useful: http://www.themasterswitch.com/review-sony-ta-zh1es
 
 

 
Thanks for the link to the review. Now that's more like i'm hearing compared to the other couple of reviews I've seen online.
 
Confirmation bias for the win!

 

[balleklorin]

The big question: TA-ZH1ES + MDR-Z1R. High or low gain? What sound best?

 

[TSAVJason]

It's designed to be used in low output but it really becomes a personal choice as to how you want your gain settings

 

[GoDiSLoVe]

https://www.whathifi.com/news/mqa-confirms-sony-music-and-merlin-hi-res-audio-partners

So, maybe native MQA will come to TA-ZH1ES sooner than i thought

 

[TSAVJason]

https://www.whathifi.com/news/mqa-confirms-sony-music-and-merlin-hi-res-audio-partners

So, maybe native MQA will come to TA-ZH1ES sooner than i thought

And Sony told me to keep it secret!

 

[Sarnia]

And Sony told me to keep it secret!

Awesome news, do you know roughly when they'll add it to the TA-ZH1ES?

 

[TSAVJason]

Awesome news, do you know roughly when they'll add it to the TA-ZH1ES?

I won't know until I meet with the engineers again in 2 weeks

 

[Sarnia]

I won't know until I meet with the engineers again in 2 weeks

Thanks Jason. If you're able to share it then will look forward to hearing more. Strange they should want to keep it a secret, it's great news that should help them sell more of these excellent DAC/Amps.

 

[HiFiGuy528]

Sony Music and Sony Electronics are completely different. IMHO, MQA is overrated....

 

[flyte3333]

I won't know until I meet with the engineers again in 2 weeks

Hi all

Regarding DSD re-mastering, I've seen this in the manual:

"[DSD REMASTERING] Converts all PCM signals to DSD signals of 11.2 MHz or 12.2 MHz."

Is there a way to up-sample native DSD64 files to DSD256 rates, like happens to PCM (as above)?

Cheers

 

[TSAVJason]

Thanks Jason. If you're able to share it then will look forward to hearing more. Strange they should want to keep it a secret, it's great news that should help them sell more of these excellent DAC/Amps.

I'll be happy to update everyone after I get my next update. It's going to be a while before any MQA updates happen. Sony Music, Sony Electronics and Sony Pictures are very different companies and don't appear to have a lot of dialog between them.

 

[Sarnia]

Wow this thread has really died since the forum migration.

Here's an interesting short review of the TA-ZH1ES. I think he likes it....

https://www.stereophile.com/content/gramophone-dreams-16-sony-audioquest-headphones-page-2

 

[Leviticus]

Unfortunately I was unable to make good use of my TA lately because my Fostex headphones are currently being repaired by Fostex (for the second time because the first attempt failed).

So I'm stuck with my Sennheiser Momentum headphones which I usually only use when I'm on the go. And using entry-level headphones just doesn't work with TOTL audiophile products...