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In Reply to: RE: Would any HAP Z1 owners give their current impressions, posted by oldmkvi on July 13, 2014 at 08:38:09
I purchased and returned one. As far as function I thought it was outstanding and it downloaded from my PC and worked great. I also added a 2nd drive and formatted it and that worked great as well. I also thought it sounded pretty good, just not as good ad the Playback Designs MPD3/ laptop that I was trying to replace. That was the nail in it coffin. Had I not had the MPD3 to compare it to it would probably still be here...that was a lot to ask and head to head it got pounded pretty good. It sounded as good or slightly better than my Sony XA9000ES but of course the Sony will play my MCH SACD's and the HAPZ1 would not so it is still here as well to play those SACD's when in the mood. I thought the interface was pretty slick when comparing to JRiver and a laptop.
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As far as function I thought it was outstanding and it downloaded from my PC and worked great.
I had just the opposite experience with the Sony HAP-S1 which is the lower-end model but otherwise operates the same way.
How many albums or tracks did you load to yours and at what resolution? I thought the Sony HAP-S1 sounded very good but operationally it was not ready for primetime.
Wow quite a difference from my experience. I had the one 1TB original drive and a 2TB additional and over 15K songs in 44.1 thru 2X DSD. I was trying to fine a setup my wife could use much more easily than booting up the Laptop and starting up MC19. The interface was fine and seemed very responsive and user friendly to me. Only had it for 4 days and sent it back. I was trying to lower my investment and make a more user friendly setup. Only got the latter...yes the PB MPD3 is a much more expensive setup and I would have compromised it some but it just wasn't close enough to make the switch...even my non audiophile wife said after 3 cuts...that isn't gonna make it. No it wasn't fully burned in and all that but we made the choice...it's gotta go.
That's another league, financially speaking.
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