Sony during the consumer electronics show CES a 1200 euro-dollar Walkman presented. At the same time, the Japanese manufacturer also with LDAC, a way to audio with better sound quality than hitherto was possible to stream through a bluetooth connection.
The Walkman ZX2 will play a variety of audio formats, such as mp3, flac, wma, wav, Apple Lossless, aiff, and dsd. To make the audio as good as possible to play Sony’s S-Master HX amplifier in the device, while the DSEE HX, the sounds are processed and according to the manufacturer, high frequency sounds are back on cd’s and in mp3’s is not audible.
The ZX2 also supports Sony’s proprietary LDAC technology, which allows users to have more data over a bluetooth connection can stream and thus a better sound quality via a wireless connection. The device itself has an aluminium casing 13,1×6,5 cm wide and 18.5 mm thick, which it what format is the most on a thick smartphone seems to be.
The screen has a diagonal of 4″ and is a lcd with a resolution of 854×480 pixels. Sony has Android 4.2 on the Walkman, while Google’s apps are present. By default, the storage is 128GB, and there is also space for a micro-sd card with a maximum capacity of 128GB. The ZX2 follows the ZX1 at Sony sixteen months ago. The Walkman ZX2 comes this spring out and the manufacturer is asking 1200 euros for the device.
