Friday 27 February 2015

Sony Introduces 4 New Bluetooth headphones

Easy listening: it’s all yours with four new Bluetooth® headphones from Sony

  • MDR-1ABT: High quality wireless listening
  • MDR-ZX770BN: Digital Noise Cancelling plus Bluetooth freedom
  • MDR-ZX330BT: Balanced comfort for everyday listening with Bluetooth
  • MDR-AS600BT: Splash-proof with Bluetooth for active sports
Looks like Sony finally released the new headphones that went through the FCC lately.  I only posted the 770s, but the MDR-1ABTs also went through the FCC but I decided not to post them.  I had a feeling LDAC support was coming, be it only on the high end MDR-1ABTs.

Btw my A-Series Review is finally coming this weekend, so stay tuned.
 
Rest of the press release after the break.

Monday 2 February 2015

Sony A-Series to receive LDAC support in Japan in April


Thanks to +Kherlen for bringing this to my attention.  For the moment, it seems to be only limited to the Japanese model.  As far as I know there are only a few products that support LDAC, apart from the new ZX2, there are also 2 wireless speakers, SRS-X55 and SRS-X33.  The speakers are available in the US and Japan for the time being, so not sure if the LDAC update will hit everywhere, maybe only to US and Japan.  It states around April 2015, so perhaps by then the new speakers will be release in other areas?  Perhaps the update MDR-1ABT (FCC link) and MDR-ZX770 (will have 2 models, Bluetooth only and Bluetooth with Noise cancellation) will feature LDAC.  Realistically I feel only the MDR-1ABTs will come with LDAC support.

Source: Sony Japan