For what i know is X series manufactured in PG.

NOT 100% sure

the units i found here is made in Malaysia.

I got some friend inside sony

All of Sony Walkman locally sold here are Malaysian made?

Are Malaysian made Walkmans distributed to other countries?

Yup, from headfi, those american also getting made in malaysia's sony product.

the whole "Walkman" product line manufacturing has been moved to Malaysia. So every Walkman you get now regardless of model are all made in Malaysia

I see. So would the UI be the same as well? Let say between the models here and in Japan. Aren't the Japanese usually have their own preference in regards of UI?

The will be some changes to the UI according to your country. +- some function that might be unique to your country.

For example in Japan there're only Japanese for the UI language and there is also a built in OneSeg TV tuner. In Malaysia you wont have that function(you cant use it here anyway)

yaya. for example, the Japanese S730F series comes with voice recording mode replacing the Intelligent Shuffle mode on our normal S730F series.

also, the Japanese Walkman seems like can't change to another language though. this applies to both S & X series that I came across so far.

look like we cannot get from japan even it cheaper except you really accept it

hi guys
i actually tried a demo unit in midvalley - was very surprised with the high Q finishing, especially the granite! very cool

in terms of audio - i turned off all the enhancements and it does seems like the sound is very flat....maybe becos midvalley is too noisy ? i dunno....or does this mean we have to turn on enhancement to have better audio quality

one thing i noticed, for the noise cancelling feature,you cannot use OTHER noise cancelling headphones with this walkman. i supposed you either use X series digital noise cancelling tech or your noise cancelling headphones/earphones.

I don't care much about digital noiise cancellation, because my IEMs provide better isolation + better SQ.

yep, the NC only works with the bundled MDR-NC22 (not sure is this exact model name or not).
the NC is particularly useful for those who frequently travel on plane, bus and train. i do agree that good fit provides good isolation, but there are the sounds that still can leak into it in that kind of situation, so the extra NC is quite useful.
anyway, SQ-wise there are other earphones that can beat the default earphone.

For my self i never use NC feature in Sony player. no so neutral for me

second, i prefer better SQ

But the new B Series Walkman is made in China already wor. I don't know what happened to Sony factory in Malaysia

Labour cost issue.

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Added on July 10, 2009, 12:00 amThe NC function is said to drain the battery quickly.

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Added on July 10, 2009, 12:01 amLol, a 1k plus IEM vs a 400 bucks IEM, no place for Sony xD

This post has been edited by chingwooi: Jul 10 2009, 12:01 AM

Any iems, be it 100 bucks or 1k, would provide better SQ if the isolation/seal is good.



I guess it would not be long then before all of the Walkman production goes over there. =/

I went to play with this Sony X series walkman yesterday, the display unit at SOny Style in Time Square Plaza, too bad there's no song, only one actually but it's not the song that I like so I don't even bother to test the SQ, so I tried to play around with its other functions, first I tried the you tube and surfing net, I've to say that it's pretty disappointing, it took ages for the pages to load... so I closed the app and tried the photo app, the home button is very nice BTW, very nice to press in comparison to the iPod touch one, the photo viewer wasn't that bad, very nice screen display, after that I tried the video, the small screen seems to be quite a disadvantage for watching video, so I think if anyone of you were pondering btw an iPod touch and this sony x-series, if you're not so fussy about the SQ, iPod touch would be better the Sony for the functions, I'll pass with the Sony X-series, looking forward to the Zune HD now or iPod touch 3rd gen may be

just a music device... =.= get either one la...

heh brother seems like u dunno how serious we can be in choosing the media player. not a cheap stuff so gonna choose carefully....