![]() In a sea of digital music players that offer straight plug and play functionality, this program stuck out like a sore thumb. Sony's proprietary music software has always been sluggish, unwieldy and quite frankly totally unnecessary. For years now we have reviewed Sony MP3 players players that provide good functionality, great audio and come in stylish designs, but they have always suffered from one fatal flaw SonicStage. I actually have them in my own collection, so I know them really well.It has finally arrived. Sony sent us the player along with their own closed MDR-Z1R, and the WM1ZM2 brings out the bass in the headphones really well, while opening up the sound more at the top than I’m used to with these earbuds. Their engineers know their stuff, so expectations are extra high when they come up with something in this price range.Īnd the sound is really good. When Sony makes a new top model, you naturally pay attention. (Photo: Geir Gråbein Nordby) A disappointment The Sony NW-WM1ZM2 has both balanced and unbalanced output. Although I do have some favorites that I load into and listen to a lot. So easy, in fact, that that’s primarily what I do. On the other hand, it’s easy to use Tidal and other music services that deliver music in CD quality or higher. It’s intuitive and simple, but it’s still a miss that you can’t just pop the microSD memory card into the computer, drag the music straight onto the card and then feed the card into the player. Mac users must use Content Transfer instead. Sony has included its own music player as standard, which opens all downloaded music files. You can install apps on it and it does everything an Android phone can do, except make phone calls and take photos. With its touch screen and Android interface, the Sony NW-WM1ZM2 is as easy to use as an Android phone. ![]() According to Sony, this makes for a more stable construction with higher rigidity. The cabinet itself is made of gold-plated OFC copper with a purity of 99.99 percent. Otherwise, there are two headphone outputs: A 3.5 mm unbalanced and a 4.4 mm balanced.īut it’s not just inside that Sony has used expensive and thoughtful materials. The connection between the amp section and the headphone outputs is made with thick Kimber Kable. And Sony says select capacitors and lead-free solder are used. The amplifier part is Sony’s own fully digital S-Master HX Digital Amp technology. The digital as well as the analogue audio signal has been carefully taken care of to achieve the absolute best sound. Every circuit is carefully designed and made with top quality components, and you’ll find no coincidences inside. The NW-WM1ZM2 has been given a top-class interior. (Photo: Sony) Perfection at your fingertips If I say that this portable music player costs the same as the most expensive iPhone, many will shake their heads in disbelief. (Photo: Sony) Twice as expensive as you’d think The Sony NW-WM1ZM2 is twice as expensive as the most expensive iPhone. The name seems more cryptic than it really is the ‘M2’ at the end means that this is the second generation of this particular player. Such as the top model we’re looking at here, the NW-WM1ZM2. They are of course more compact and portable than the analogue players of yesteryear, and the best of them are also many times more expensive. It has just changed format to digital music players (DAPs). Today, such cassette players are long dead and buried (though nostalgics can buy them on eBay for a few hundred dollars), but the Walkman name lives on. (Photo: Creative Commons) The Walkman name lives on ![]() Many people think of the WM-SXF33 cassette player when they hear the name Walkman. They were all popularly called a wallman, even though Sony made the original and copyrighted the word Walkman (with a capital W). In the 1980s and early 90s, portable music players were synonymous with analogue cassette players clipped to your belt.
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