NW-A1200 violet is really pure purple!

[Kbadone_]

Hey guys

I finally decided to buy a NW A series I couldnt wait for next year! That thing is simply amazing I was never been happy for a DAP like thsi one

Anyway

The color of the player suppose to be violet but that thing is purple I was comparing it to these pics

Mine looks like this PURPLE

But how come this one is violet!!

Its just wierd

[bogon07]

Kbadone,

Congratualtions on your purchase.

The apparent colour of these depends on the light conditions and surrounding reflections.

My wife has a pink A1000. It varies between a pale frosted pink to dark cherry. My Blue A1000 could be any sort of blue/green shade.

Edited August 30, 2006 by bogon07

[Kbadone_]

Kbadone,

Congratualtions on your purchase.

The apparent colour of these depends on the light conditions and surrounding reflections.

Thank you man

I really love this player it waa worth the money! I even bought a plastic case from sony, it looks good on it too. I really recommned that case to anyone

about the color, I noticed there is a big diffrence between the two pictures ill try to use the player at daylight

I didnt have the chance to do it. ill let you know tommrow

[aznbro85]

Thank you man

I really love this player it waa worth the money! I even bought a plastic case from sony, it looks good on it too. I really recommned that case to anyone

about the color, I noticed there is a big diffrence between the two pictures ill try to use the player at daylight

I didnt have the chance to do it. ill let you know tommrow

Hey Kbadone,

Congrats on your purchase, and glad that you really like it.

Before trying it outside, I recommend going into the options and making sure the brightness is at full. When it's at full, I am able to see the screen sometimes while i'm outside during the day

sometimes it's easier to read it from an angle too, instead of looking at it head on.

[Ascariss]

Congrats on the purchase, I am sure you will be happy with the A1000. I would recommend trying to use connect player first since it is the easiest to use with the NW series and if CP works fine on your PC don't go back to sonicstage, unless you already have that installed disregard that above advice,

The lighting conditions determine the colour like bogon mentioned, I've held the violet one and it can appear bluish in colour or a purple one as you photographed. My silver units themselves look black in darker light, to a chrome, and then silver depending on the light, so in a way it can change colours lol.

Do please post your opinions and criticisms of the player when you get a good feel and use of it for a week or so. if you have any questions that have not been answered already on the forums, don't hesitate to ask.

[Kbadone_]

Congrats on the purchase, I am sure you will be happy with the A1000. I would recommend trying to use connect player first since it is the easiest to use with the NW series and if CP works fine on your PC don't go back to sonicstage, unless you already have that installed disregard that above advice,

The lighting conditions determine the colour like bogon mentioned, I've held the violet one and it can appear bluish in colour or a purple one as you photographed. My silver units themselves look black in darker light, to a chrome, and then silver depending on the light, so in a way it can change colours lol.

Do please post your opinions and criticisms of the player when you get a good feel and use of it for a week or so. if you have any questions that have not been answered already on the forums, don't hesitate to ask.

It came with sonic stage 4.0 CP . That thing is awesome I dont know why alot of people are whining about the software. It works like a charm with me. Fast and easy!!

[lodore]

im thinking of just buying the a3000 soon and dont reallly want to wait and your comments helped me.

ever since i got my minidisc player ages ago i have been using sonicstage with no problems. even thou the minidisc player now dont hold a charge lol thats why i got a atrac cd player. but now i want all my music with me

Edited August 29, 2006 by lodore

[aznbro85]

It came with sonic stage 4.0 CP . That thing is awesome I dont know why alot of people are whining about the software. It works like a charm with me. Fast and easy!!

THANK YOU!

Sometimes I think SonicStage gets an unjust bad reputation for no reason. I'll admit, I've had my gripes with OpenMG Music Management software and earlier versions of SonicStage, but I feel that SS 3.0 and up have been really good.

So many people are hesitant to get Sony based MP3 players because of the horror stories they hear about SonicStage. I've told a few of my friends who were hesitant about it to download sonicstage and try it out before buying a Walkman, and so far I've been lucky to have converted most of them onto the Sony side of things

[Kbadone_]

Everything in sonic stage 4.0 works great especially the artistic link mode. You can do it manually very easy. at least it looks better than ITunes sofware.

I havent tried to use any ATRAC format does anybody recommned it?

By the way the nw-a1200 is very small I was shocked when I opened the box lol. Sony did a great job making this solid piece of gadget. Too bad it came to the states late

The headphones that came with the player looked nice but they are exactly the same as the ones that came with the PSP. I used Ultimate Ears super.fi 5 pro earbuds and the player sounds amazing I compared it to my brother's ipod using the same headphones and the result it got superior soud than the ipod nano.

If you are looking for a great MP3 player get that one

Looking for a multimedia player get a PSP

Edited August 29, 2006 by Kbadone

[Guest Stuge]

I havent tried to use any ATRAC format does anybody recommned it?

I usually rip my audio cds to Atrac,but i don't recommened to convert mp3 files to Atrac.

[Kbadone_]

I usually rip my audio cds to Atrac,but i don't recommened to convert mp3 files to Atrac.

sounds good

Is the atracplus 352 kps on par with the mp3 320 kps?

[TMA@MK]

Hi

I am looking at the NWA1200 which looks great not sure if to get Black or Silver.

Question I have can you bookmark with this player, as some times listen to Audio books.

Also how clear is the display I know it's not good in sun light, but how is is it indoors

Did have a Zen Micro photo until died.

Thanks

[DSP]

I have a nw-a1200B and I love it!

I bought it mostly because of it's soundquality.

My unit always looks black, and yes, it's easier to read the screen under an angle (outside). Inside the screen is really nice. It's very bright. I took the device to the movies the other night and in the dark the player just looks awsome!

I recommend this player to anybody! If you don't need to have photo or video on your DAP this is the one to get!

sonicstage is very easy to use. Shure, everyone has it's own opinion, But in general I think sonicstage CP is very good. I don't see the big difference with itunes.

I'm an old MiniDisc user and I've been with sony's software since OpenMG. OpenMG was not very good, that's true. But sonicstage is very good at this point. No problems with that!

Edited September 1, 2006 by DSP

[JustAnUnCoolCat]

The best answer to the question of 'is ATRAC3Plus 256K on par with...xxxx' is simple.

Rip your sample audio (pick a good selection that covers the range of your listening.. and definately include some stuff that's technically very audio complex in it's mix.. and stuff with very very distinctive acoustic instrument inclusions - def include something with a 12-string guitar involved).

Rip it multiple times, at ALL available sample rate/codec combos within ATRAC, and listen to the results.

You'll see then it's not a question of comparing ATRAC combos with say MP3 and MP3 combo's and asking is xxx on par with yyy.

It's more a question of discovering what is the best ATRAC combo to suit a given track vs how much space what sounds best to you takes up out of the storage space.

If you ever experience or got into the habit of mp3 encoding using the classic VBR encoding method (setting a variable range of 32-320, highest possible effort made by encoder, parameters) - aka setting the tone as being 'as HQ as the music required', then you'd have realised that often any individual instance of an audio track can bear a suprising low bit-rate in a lot of cases.. definately lower than is often indicated in the mp3 community as being 'optimal'.

At the end of the day, giving due consideration that massive great files eats up your storage and blanket fashion mega-low encoding creates compact files that aint always 'beautiful' (like i said before, the music defines what works) - there is almost certainly an ATRAC combo that makes ANY piece of music sound good, i aint found one yet that has failed to go to ATRAC at all (where 'failed' means, sounds bloody awful no matter what combo is used).

I tend to work with the mid combos (ATRAC3 105/132K), as they are universally good for any Net-MD gen or later ATRAC deck (support wise) and often is a good 'generic' choice to start with.

But when all is said and done, if the audio needs a mega combo.. it gets it, if it works fine with ATRAC3Plus 64K , then that's noted and kept in case i need a super compact example.

48K (ATRAC3PLus) is really a bit like MDLP4 in MD terms, best kept for audiobooks & speech.

Sorry if that all sounds a bit audio-obsessive/audiophile toned, as an answer - but there is really no such thing as an 'xxx codec @ yyy bitrate = aaa codec @ bbb bitrate' equivlence table, so to speak, that's not totally open to personal pref and much disagreement (pointlessly often).

It's a bit like asking, is a diesel powered Ford car = A Peugot diesel car in terms of bombproofness and build quality. In the motor analogy - both would have bombproof motors if they were both Peugueot items (Ford usually used one-gen older Peugot units), but for overall build qual.., I'd say there is no direct equiv.. and likewise it's much the same with audio encoding (lots of codec use basically the same 'analyse and discriminate' method/theory, but when they differ a lot like ATRAC does to most MPEG encoders, it's a bit unfair to expect direct equivilency on what is not a fair test).

Be Cool Always

'Tom Kat'

[Kbadone_]

The best answer to the question of 'is ATRAC3Plus 256K on par with...xxxx' is simple.

Rip your sample audio (pick a good selection that covers the range of your listening.. and definately include some stuff that's technically very audio complex in it's mix.. and stuff with very very distinctive acoustic instrument inclusions - def include something with a 12-string guitar involved).

Rip it multiple times, at ALL available sample rate/codec combos within ATRAC, and listen to the results.

You'll see then it's not a question of comparing ATRAC combos with say MP3 and MP3 combo's and asking is xxx on par with yyy.

It's more a question of discovering what is the best ATRAC combo to suit a given track vs how much space what sounds best to you takes up out of the storage space.

If you ever experience or got into the habit of mp3 encoding using the classic VBR encoding method (setting a variable range of 32-320, highest possible effort made by encoder, parameters) - aka setting the tone as being 'as HQ as the music required', then you'd have realised that often any individual instance of an audio track can bear a suprising low bit-rate in a lot of cases.. definately lower than is often indicated in the mp3 community as being 'optimal'.

At the end of the day, giving due consideration that massive great files eats up your storage and blanket fashion mega-low encoding creates compact files that aint always 'beautiful' (like i said before, the music defines what works) - there is almost certainly an ATRAC combo that makes ANY piece of music sound good, i aint found one yet that has failed to go to ATRAC at all (where 'failed' means, sounds bloody awful no matter what combo is used).

I tend to work with the mid combos (ATRAC3 105/132K), as they are universally good for any Net-MD gen or later ATRAC deck (support wise) and often is a good 'generic' choice to start with.

But when all is said and done, if the audio needs a mega combo.. it gets it, if it works fine with ATRAC3Plus 64K , then that's noted and kept in case i need a super compact example.

48K (ATRAC3PLus) is really a bit like MDLP4 in MD terms, best kept for audiobooks & speech.

Sorry if that all sounds a bit audio-obsessive/audiophile toned, as an answer - but there is really no such thing as an 'xxx codec @ yyy bitrate = aaa codec @ bbb bitrate' equivlence table, so to speak, that's not totally open to personal pref and much disagreement (pointlessly often).

It's a bit like asking, is a diesel powered Ford car = A Peugot diesel car in terms of bombproofness and build quality. In the motor analogy - both would have bombproof motors if they were both Peugueot items (Ford usually used one-gen older Peugot units), but for overall build qual.., I'd say there is no direct equiv.. and likewise it's much the same with audio encoding (lots of codec use basically the same 'analyse and discriminate' method/theory, but when they differ a lot like ATRAC does to most MPEG encoders, it's a bit unfair to expect direct equivilency on what is not a fair test).

Be Cool Always

'Tom Kat'

Man can u explain this easier. You made it more complicated for me.

I ripped all my CD at 352 atrac3plus and sound quality varies from song to song! If you want me to rip each song at diffrent rates it gonna take forver!

[TMA@MK]

Hi All

I have taken every advise and gone and got myself the A1200 in Black.

It looks great, got it yesterday from the local Sony centre. I have load around 1000 tracks so far.

The S/W dose not seem that bad it does slow down your PC a bit.

But so far it great - Thanks all.

[Guest Stuge]

Is the atracplus 352 kps on par with the mp3 320 kps?

Atrac 352kpbs is obviously better than MP3 320 kpbs ,but you won't be able find much difference b/w them . .

Hi All

I have taken every advise and gone and got myself the A1200 in Black.

It looks great, got it yesterday from the local Sony centre. I have load around 1000 tracks so far.

The S/W dose not seem that bad it does slow down your PC a bit.

But so far it great - Thanks all.

Congrats on buying new A1200

Which software you got with your A1200?

(I mean Connect or SonicStage)

[TMA@MK]

Hi Stuge

Sorry for not reply before been away on business trip.

The S/W was Sonic stage

It seems ok but dose seem slow to boot up,

Need to play around with more to get used to what it can do etc.

AW1200 very happy with, sound quality is good but think I will need to get some different head phones.

The unit has Version 3.00 S/W installed, need to check if this is the latest.

[Guest Stuge]

Hi Stuge

Sorry for not reply before been away on business trip.

The unit has Version 3.00 S/W installed, need to check if this is the latest.

Ver 3 is the lastest fimware for A1200.