Sony HAP-Z1ES Memory Player

It's nice that they make a memory player and that the input for the remote control - er - headphone jack is on the bottom. Sony HAP-Z1ES Music Player. [$2,000.00 USD]

In 1999, it was written by Stereophile Magazine that "..."

Let's see how the Sony SCD-1 SACD Player stacks up today.

As you likely have a computer, the main question is whether the HAP-Z1 today functions as a DAC.

Sony SCD-1 Super Audio CD / CD Player

Frequency range: 2Hz-100kHz.
Frequency response: 2Hz-50kHz, -3dB.
Dynamic range: >105dB. THD: <0.0012%.

Sony HAP-Z1ES Music Player

Frequency Characteristics: 2Hz-80kHz (-3dB)
Dynamic Range: More than 105dB
Total Harmonic Distortion : less than 0.0015%

So, with a maintenance of dynamic range, yet an increase of frequency response by 30 kHz, plus a 20% reduction in THD, how does the HAP-Z1ES play?

Is it the player for the ages as the SCD-1 Super Audio CD / CD was/is?

JP 2016/06/10
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