Video: Sony NW-A45 Walkman

Take your high-res music files everywhere

by Crutchfield's Video Team

Sony's NW-A45 Walkman lets you take your high-res music files everywhere. It plays FLAC, WAV, DSD, and MQA files, and your can expand the onboard storage with a microSD card so you'll never run out of sweet-sounding tunes.

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Hi, I'm Christina. I'm here to talk to you today about the Sony NW-A45 Walkman. It is a portable high-res audio player. It supports a variety of different high-res files, including FLAC, WAV, even DSD and MQA are supported.

For convenience, it's got a FM tuner built into I,t and then will also output Bluetooth to headphones if you need to. For storage of all your high-res files, there are 16 gigabytes built in, which you can also expand that up to 128 gigabytes through the microSD slot on the side.

There is a built-in rechargeable battery that gives you up to 45 hours of battery life. There's a nice touchscreen that is color, and there is a 3.5 millimeter jack on the bottom for connecting headphones. Another really nice thing about this is it does act as a DAC, so if you want to get your music off of your computer you just use this as a DAC instead.

As you can see, it's got a lot of really cool features built into it. It's a really nice way to take all of your high-res files with you, and so you can listen to them on the go. If you'd like to learn more about it or see whether it's a great fit for you, just give us a call, we're happy to help.

Earl Johnson from Bartlett

Posted on 10/17/2022

Thank you very nice content for a novice.

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