![]() ![]() Either way, it's an elegant-looking piece of kit finished mostly in gloss black, with a color touchscreen in the center of its top panel.ĭominating the DMP-Z1's front panel is a large, mega-bling, gold-plated brass volume-control knob a window in the top panel reveals even more of the knob. The DMP-Z1 is described on Sony's website as a Walkmanthough perhaps it's more of a SitInTheLimoMan. The last high-resolution music player from Sony we reviewed was the HAP-Z1ES ($2000), which Kalman Rubinson wrote about favorably in May 2014 that player is intended to be used in a conventional system. ![]() At $8500, it's also considerably more expensive than other players. The subject of this review is another exception: The DMP-Z1, from Sony's Signature Series, is comparatively enormousalmost the size and weight of a regular preamplifier. The exception was the Toblerone-shaped PonoPlayer, but even that was small. ![]() When companies like Acoustic Research, Astell&Kern, Fiio, HiFiMan, and Questyle introduced portable players that could play high-resolution files, they echoed the iPod's form factor. ![]() Apple may not have been the first to market with a portable digital audio player, but its original iPod defined the genre: a device small enough to fit into a shirt pocket. ![]()
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