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| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Ooops, I meant to type DSD remastering not DMS remastering. | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Sbayne, congrats on your purchase and thanks for sharing your impressions thus far. Can you be any more specific about the differences in sound quality that you are perceiving with 16bit, 44.1 kHz files when DMS remastering is turned on versus off... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Having just read a review of the Z1 at whathifi.com I am confused once again. Being otherwise a fountain of little useful information, I did learn from this review that the Z1's DSD remastering engine can be turned on and off (a surprise to me) wh... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 To put it another way, even though the Z1 can't be used as a standalone DAC, the DAC that's in the Z1 is presumably a much better DAC than the DAC that's in the S1. | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 As near as I can tell from the published specs, the feature that looks to be the most responsible for the price difference is Sony's proprietary "DSD remastering engine" (i.e., DAC) which the Z1 has and the S1 does not. Presumably this means that ... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Duh, it seems I was having another one of my brain farts. Thanks Mitch/Kal for the clarification. | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Kr4, in an earlier post you wrote "it's not a dac or a renderer." The DAC part of that statement confuses me a bit. When starting with digital source material (in this case, computer files no less) I thought there always had to be a DAC somewhere ... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 I see now that the hard drive replacement question I raised above does appear to be answered in the "Quick Reference Guide" that's posted on Sony's website, which states: "Do not replace or add hard disk drives on the unit." So much for user servi... | |
| Using Oppo 105 as an AV Receiver The Oppo is not an AV receiver nor is it a power amp. The Oppo is a source device that you would use in conjunction with your Marantz preamp and your Rotel power amp, not in place of them. The Oppo would replace your existing Sony bluray player. I... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Rg58, thanks for your impressions so far. Looking forward to your further observations particularly since I also have B&W speakers (804 Diamond with Musical Fidelity). On another forum I did read a somewhat negative comment about the transfer ... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Bowing out ... lotsa luck | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Tim, I really don't mean to be patronizing here, but I think you may be well served if you do more reading/research into NAS. I continue to wonder why you think you need it. In any event, a plan to connect NAS to the Oppo via USB suggests to me a ... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 The thing that I find most compelling about the CES report is not that the player made a positive impression on JA (after all, what doesn't make a positive impression on JA?) but rather that Sony chose for its room at CES to use this $2,000 player... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE If you do buy a 105 (which is a great value product no matter how you cut it), one thought to avoid going over budget might be to put the Synology NAS aspect of your plan on the back burner for the time being and instead just buy two external USB ... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Oh, forgot to mention ... As to wireless vs wired connection, I hear no difference in sound quality. The problem with wireless is the potential for signal dropouts. My wireless signal is pretty good, but I still get annoying dropouts from time to ... |