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This mean no matter what format your music collection is in, you’ll most likely be covered with this player, and more importantly, you’ll have a much richer listening experience than streaming.Īt the core of the Sony’s playback here is the high-resolution S-Master HX digital amp, which aims to cut distortion and noise across the spectrum.

You’ll also get support for Linear PCM WAV files, Apple’s allegedly lossless m4as, and of course AIFFs. The latter is important because it includes more than double the sampling frequencies of MP3, meaning even though it isn’t a raw, uncompressed file, it comes much closer to representing all the audio information of an uncompressed file. The NW A-35 supports the standard lossy, compressed files such as MP3, WMA and even FLAC. Sound Quality: Fully supported with some nice software bells and whistles The crisp, responsive touchscreen controls definitely make the device feel premium even if it doesn’t go overkill with a quad HD or 4K display. This actually looks remarkably good compared to many of the cheaper MP3 options out there, and it’s surprising how well Sony has made the screen look with the spec limitations. It sports an 800x480 pixel resolution in a TFT panel. The crisp, responsive touchscreen controls definitely make the device feel premium even if it doesn’t go overkill with a quad HD or 4K display.Īll of the physical buttons sit on the right side of the device, while the ports sit on the bottom, and the microSD slot is on the left.
