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Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment

posted by martyb on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-good dept.

butthurt writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @04:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @04:05AM (#396904)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @11:15AM (#396988)

    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).