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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @06:23PM
Even DJs that need to tempo and key match difference pieces only need 196 khz. I've never understood why more than 16 bits was needed. The loudness wars have already effectively made only 5 bits or so significant. What difference does 16 bit, 24 bit, or 32 bit make if we still only have 5 bits that are actually used?
For playback, anything over 48 khz is just stupid, but you and other poster are correct that a higher sample rate in the source recording(s) is/are necessary for certain operations such as FFT.