Sony's Walkman is back! And it's one of the most affordable hi-fi audio players on the market
– makes the point in some style. It’s a robust, full-figured sound the NW-A306 presents, but with no shortage of delicacy or deftness. The overall tonality is nicely balanced, and there’s no overstating or understating of any part of the frequency range. Integration is smooth, and the Sony NW-A306 establishes a big, properly organised soundstage that has both depth and width.
But it’s through the midrange that the NW-A306 does its most convincing and agreeable work. It’s an eloquent and revealing listen, with any number of interesting observations to make about a singer’s technique and attitude. And with a technician as warm and accomplished as Weyes Blood, the Sony communicates in torrents. No shred of information seems to elude it, and it manages to sound spirited and musical even though it’s getting through an awful lot of analysis.
Safe to say a lot of this expertise and positivity deserts the Sony if you step down to say a 128kbps file of Scott Walker’sBroad dynamics flatten out more than somewhat, while the more subtle second-stage dynamic insight all-but disappears. Detail levels fall away, and the entire presentation becomes less three-dimensional and, ultimately, much less convincing. So there’s a lesson here somewhere… Capable to support digital audio files of CD-standard 16bit/44.
Physical connections are all along the bottom of the player. There’s a 3.5mm headphone socket, a USB-C input and a microSD slot that can officially accept cards of up to 512GB . And there’s a recessed bar for attaching a lanyard or wrist-strap if you fancy. Sony's NW-A306 has a wave design that covers the back of the audio player to give extra gripUseful suite of physical controls before, right? Well, setting up the NW-A306 is basically the same process.
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