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Digital Noise Cancelling Walkman®

When you listen to music, the last thing you want to hear is everything else going on around you.

The engineering stories


Inspiration

Digital Noise Cancelling delivers amazing audio fidelity, and blocks out external ambient noise, so all you hear is the purity of your music. You’d usually find it hidden in a pair of headphones.

But traditionally, these can be big, clunky and not very portable…

So we wondered just how possible it would be to fit this groundbreaking technology into such a tiny device.


Creation

Very possible, in fact. Our clever engineers shrunk and moved the Digital Noise Cancelling processing element to sit inside the Walkman® player itself.

Why? To keep our ultra small and lightweight in-ear phones as portable as the device without weighing you down.

They also injected our original Hi-Fi audio technology, S-Master Digital Amplifier, to make your music free from distortion and sound even better.


Demonstration

The Walkman® X Series is the world's first portable device with Digital Noise Cancelling built-in. It’s also the first Walkman® video MP3 player to have S-Master Digital Amplifier inside.

How do we know it works?

We tested the purity of the X Series playback in the noisiest environments we could find – next to fridge fans, air con units and finally a jet engine. And all you get is crystal clear sound with no distortion and no background noise, every time.



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