{"id":6155,"date":"2015-11-02T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2015-11-02T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:31:14","slug":"sony-hi-res-audio-for-car-due-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/sony-hi-res-audio-for-car-due-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Hi-Res Audio For Car Due This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-Hi-Res-car-audio.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6156 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-Hi-Res-car-audio-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Sony-Hi-Res-car-audio\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-Hi-Res-car-audio-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-Hi-Res-car-audio-500x297.jpg 500w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-Hi-Res-car-audio.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sony showed for the first time a working prototype of the first Hi-Res Audio deck for the car along with a pair of super tweeters that can reproduce sound above 22 kHz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The deck is expected to ship at the end of the year, with more news on the product to be revealed next month, said Sony Director of Mobile &amp; Headphones, Personal Imaging and Audio Division Takumi Sasaki at KnowledgeFest this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The picture here does not do justice to the high style full aluminum machined finish on the unit with bright white LED lighting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.8pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-HI-Res-car-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6157 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-HI-Res-car-2-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"Sony-HI-Res-car-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-HI-Res-car-2-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-HI-Res-car-2-500x249.jpg 500w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sony-HI-Res-car-2.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can play 192kHz\/24 bit PCM and 2.8MHz &amp; 5.6 MHz DSD audio and boasts a frequency response of 20Hz-90kHz and an SN radio of 117dB in what Sony calls the radio \u201cwith the best specifications ever.\u201d\u00a0 Typical specs for CD players are 44.kHz\/16 bit audio, 20Hz-20kHz with an SN of around 100.<\/p>\n<p>The mechless unit can stream music from an iPhone or Android phone and has an NFC tap-to-pair feature.<\/p>\n<p>It will play back audio on a USB drive in FLAC 192kHz\/24bit without down converting the signal. \u00a0 And it shows a readout of the frequency and bit depth of the music playing. It works with a pair of Sony audiophile super tweeters and was shown with a Hi-Res Audio amplifier (70 watts x 4).<\/p>\n<p>The deck requires a Lightning to USB female adapter cable for an iPhone or an Android OTG cable plus a USB A to USB Micro B cable.\u00a0\u00a0 It has an optical output and works with Bluetooth EDR.<\/p>\n<p>A non-working prototype of the Sony Hi-Res Audio player for the car was\u00a0first shown at CES\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/248139_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6162 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/248139_2-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"248139_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/248139_2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/248139_2-413x300.jpg 413w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/248139_2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: CEoutlook<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony showed for the first time a working prototype of the first Hi-Res Audio deck for the car along with a pair of super tweeters that can reproduce sound above 22 kHz. The deck is expected to ship at the end of the year, with more news on the product to be revealed next month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}