Diehard Sony Fan, always wanted to get both of the Z1Rs, finally pulled the trigger last week(along with the FIIO K7). The FIIO K3 will be paired with the IER-Z1R. The FIIO K7 will be paired with the MDR-Z1R. Wanted to get the TA-ZH1ES, but currently out of budget.
My 1AM2 and N3AP can finally retire.
Would love these but im too dyslexic for these dumb fucking names, please sony, come up with good names
Love my IER-Z1R, how you liking the MDR?
What does the Z1R do well?
I owned one for 3 years. It has excellent bass and great detail. It’s a warm sound signature but there is some amount of treble wonkiness. But if the song is right it essentially makes you feel like you’re listening in a world class concert hall.
It’s also one of the most well built luxury items I’ve ever used (no joke). After all that time of constant use its joints and headband were completely silent. It felt overbuilt for the task as expected of high end Sony audio.
For the MDR-Z1R, overall a very enjoyable experience,it has slight emphasis on the vocals and bass, but not to the point where it gets fatiguing.
Vocals are clear and Bass is clean.
lol. Are these actually anywhere near worth $1800?
If you are referring to the price, they were already lower than the MSRP, coupled with the 11.11 discount in my country, they are like another 10% cheaper.
If you are referring to the value, no it is definitely not worth the value. You can get around 70 to 80% of the performance of these headphones/iem for way less, especially in the iem space. These headphones are for people that are willing to fork out a lot of money, just to get that last 20% of performance. Plus, I am a diehard Sony Fan.
As a new owner of a Walkman (Japanese ZX707), I was wondering why you were retiring your high-end Walkman and buying DAC/amps when your Walkman could have driven both of those headphones/IEMs just fine. Then I realized that in classic Sony fashion, there are two products in their catalogue that both end in “1AM2”: there’s the Walkman NW-WM1AM2 and the headphones MDR-1AM2. I presume you are retiring the headphones?
Naming collisions aside, congrats on the purchase! I may be joining the MDR-Z1R club soon!