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Enjoy high-quality sound with Sony's stylish and compact Walkman music player. The NW-A306 lets you download and stream all the music you love. With full Wi-Fi compatibility, longer battery life and a stylish design, it gives you hours and hours of listening time to experience and discover new music wherever you go.
Enjoy superior audio quality thanks to a range of codecs and sound processing technologies that give you new ways to enjoy your music.
Developed for Sony's Walkman brand of portable audio players, S-Master HX digital amplification technology supports the native DSD format and provides high, balanced power output. It reduces distortion and noise over a wide range of frequencies, for rich, intense sound, optimised by innovative, high-quality lead-free soldering.
With longer battery life than the previous model, let the music flow, with playback of up to 36 hours for FLAC files at 44.1 kHz, 32 hours for FLAC Hi-Res Audio files at 96 kHz or 26 hours using a music service app.
Supported by Android and Wi-Fi compatible, the NW-A306 player gives you new ways to listen to your music. Enjoy your favourite music and streaming applications directly on your Walkman or connect to a computer to access your music library.
This stylishly designed device is lightweight and pocket-friendly, so you can take your music with you wherever you go.
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General information |
Product name |
Sony NW-A306 Blue |
Brand |
Sony | |
Model |
NWA306L.CEW | |
Main characteristics |
MP3 player type |
Flash memory |
| Memory card | ||
Capacity |
32 GB | |
High-Res audio |
Yes | |
Supported audio format(s) |
WMA | |
| WAV | ||
| MP3 | ||
| AAC | ||
| DSD | ||
Camera |
No | |
Dictaphone |
No | |
Bluetooth |
Yes | |
Sport/Running |
No | |
Tuner |
FM tuner |
No |
Screen |
Touch screen |
Yes |
Color display |
Yes | |
Screen size |
9.1 cm | |
Connectivity |
Audio outputs |
Headphone (3.5mm Jack Female) |
Interface with the computer |
USB Type C | |
Audio specifications |
Réponse en fréquence (min) |
20 Hz |
Frequency response (max) |
40 kHz | |
Power supply |
Power supply type |
Lithium-ion battery |
Battery life |
36 Hour(s) | |
Physical characteristics |
Waterproof |
No |
Color |
Blue | |
Length |
56.5 mm | |
Width |
98.4 mm | |
Thickness |
11.8 mm | |
Weight |
113 g | |
Warranties |
Commercial warranty |
Seller 2 years
|
Legal warranty |
See terms & conditions
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Product referenced on 1 Jun 2023
It's my first audiophile music player and I'm generally satisfied with it. I think it's very good value for money. The interface is easy to get to grips with, there are certainly better things out there but it's great for beginners. Watch out for the battery life when streaming and downloading music!
The design is nice, the screen saver with the audio cassettes gives a retro look, although in the long run when you zap it can bother. In Bluetooth with the WF 1000XM4 SONY earbuds it works very well, nothing to say the quality is very acceptable.
I listen to a lot of DSD files and so to get the best out of this quality I use a very sensitive pair of headphones, the SHURE SE846 gen1 and... In short, I thought that the update would have corrected the problem, but no. Overall, the Walkman is fine. Overall the Walkman is good, but not great ^^
- The NW-A306 incorporates a version of Android 12 that allows you to install streaming applications such as Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Amazon Music. I've added a 256GB micro SD card to save Spotify and Deezer playlists and keep them offline.
- Excellent sound quality via Bluetooth and 3.5 mm jack
- Highly recommended for fans of DAP and classic MP3.
- You can apply a number of effects to the sound, including an equaliser to adjust the frequency range, DSEE Ultimate to enhance low-resolution audio to CD quality using AI, DC linearisation to recreate the characteristics of analogue speakers and even a vinyl processor to recreate vinyl sound output. But I've found the best one (which disables all the others) is ClearAudio+; a single-switch setting that seems to increase and improve the clarity of every track.
