


It’s a sensible approach and, with Sony’s moreish, musical sound, a successful one. If you’re already in the habit of using a NAS for storing all your tunes, then the Sony probably isn’t for you.īut if all your music is stored on a home computer, then this could be the audio solution you’re looking for. The HAP-Z1ES is a great blend of the traditional and modern. To help, Sony recommends using its DSEE (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine) which claims to be able to improve sound quality, but switching it on and off, we couldn’t hear any major differences, certainly nothing as obvious as the differences you can hear with the DSD Remastering engine. Album Art Downloader will now pop up three separate search windows in parallel. Click Select all albums with missing artwork, and then click Get Artwork for Selection. There’s no shortage of machines that find it hard work making ridiculously compressed music sound listenable, but the Sony manages it. Music Live Merch Shop Newsletter James Arthur ITLL ALL MAKE SENSE IN THE END LISTEN NOW The new single Déjà vu - OUT NOW LISTEN NOW EMILY LISTEN NOW September LISTEN NOW Medicine. Album Art Downloader will go through your entire music library quite rapidly, looking for the artist name, album name, and whether or not the album already has artwork.

Internet radio is, of course, a hazardous melting pot of seriously low bitrates (some fall well into double-figures). A 320kbps AAC rip of Eminem’s Bad Guy obviously lacks the dynamic headroom and outright resolution of the CD original, but the Sony’s forgiving ability to unearth detail and keep the organisation and rhythm of the track intact is a real highlight.
