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Several sites have articles about Sony Electronics's forthcoming "Signature Series" of audio equipment. It is to consist of the MDR-Z1R headphones, the TA-ZH1ES headphone amplifier, and two Walkman portable audio players.
The NW-WM1A player will have an aluminium casing and a recommended selling price of $1,200. The NW-WM1Z will have a casing of gold-plated "oxygen-free" (according to the press release) copper and is to sell for $3,200 (according to the press release). They will weigh 267 grams and 454 grams (0.589 pounds and 1.00 pounds). They will be capable of playing Direct Stream Digital and pulse code modulated audio files. They will have touch screens, buttons and dual headphone jacks.
The headphones, at a suggested retail price of $2300, will have balanced cabling, a 4.4 mm connector, a titanium head band, and 120 kHz response.
The amplifier, at $2200, will have balanced and unbalanced outputs.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday September 03 2016, @04:00AM
So, who uses these formats?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @04:05AM
CD's are still PCM. In fact, pretty much everything other than DVD-Audio is PCM at one stage or another. And even DVD-Audio is often transcoded from DSD to PCM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @11:15AM
Also audio files with extension *.wav and *.aiff files are encoded in PCM for instance. PCM is simply a sampled and quantized version of the analog audio wave. The equivalent of the RGB format for images (as in bitmap files *.bmp).
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday September 03 2016, @09:35PM
Yes, that was the meaning I intended. However here is a list of supported file formats, from the specifications:
Audio Formats
AAC (Non-DRM), AIFF, ALAC, DSD, FLAC, HE-AAC, Linear PCM, MP3, WMA (Non-DRM)
--https://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman/nw-wm1a/specifications [sony.com]
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:16AM
Oops, that was supposed to be a reply to gumby's comment.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:43AM
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