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butthurt [soylentnews.org] 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 [wikipedia.org] and pulse code modulated [wikipedia.org] 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 [wikipedia.org], a 4.4 mm connector, a titanium head band, and 120 kHz response.

The amplifier, at $2200, will have balanced and unbalanced outputs.

links:

• PC World [pcworld.com]
• IDG Connect via ITNews [itnews.com]
• Gizmodo [gizmodo.com]
• TechHive [techhive.com]
• Infoworld (video) [infoworld.com]
• company press release [prnewswire.com]

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