Sony - Walkman NW-A55 Hi-Res 16GB* MP3 Player - Black

The sound quality is excellent especially when paired with either the Sony M3 headphones or the Sony xb31 portable speaker. The device is very user friendly and pairs quickly with everything I have tried. The screen is easy to read, The interface is peppy, smooth, well organized, and the text and album art are crisp and clear. It's a pleasure to use and navigate.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Money well spent! IT holds a extra large quantity of music with room to spare. Very happy with this purchase.

The last Walkman I had for 14 years. Still works great.

At the place that I currently work at right now, there are strict security guidelines, and having an unauthorized cellphones can get you in trouble if you are using one. So I bought this music player because it doesn't have a camera or a microphone. I've been using Samsung phones previously my whole life to satisfy my music needs, so how does this product hold up? So this music player uses it's own proprietary OS on this device. "Sony original OS" as it's called on their official product website. So it has a very nice "battery save" feature that prevents the device from charging past 90% in an attempt to make the battery last longer which I use. I'm glad the thought even a bit ahead of time to make this device last long and add in a measure to prevent the battery from frying from overcharge. However, the OS on this device is, well , slow compared to the Android OS. If you are used to playing music from a Smartphone from someone like Apple or Samsung, then the UI in this device will be slow to you. It's actually not slow like minutes slow, but it can take at most 3-4 for some things to appear like large music albums or large lists of albums available to play if you have imported tons of music onto this thing. But I got used to it over time, and I think that anyone willing to try to put up with the response time of this device for at least a week will get used to its UI speed and be able to use it no problem. As far as audio quality goes, because it is advertised as a high-resolution audio product, it is as good as my desktop computer with a desktop DAC. If plug in my headphones from my computer's external DAC into this music player, I will be able to hear pretty much the same quality of audio from this music player. I think that this small device plays music with great audio quality since it I can listen to audio from my computer without any noticeable distortions or missing parts to music I play. If you have some high resolution audio headphones you might have trouble driving it cause it's a portable music player that's using a small battery to drive headphones but something like smaller headphones and earbuds should have no problem sounding loud and clear. As for battery life with this device, it can last me a whole day with this device on and playing music, even on bluetooth. The official numbers of the battery life are available here: https://helpguide.sony.net/dmp/nwa50/v1/en/contents/TP0002342893.html I think that while this product is a little expensive compared to other music players, the features, functionality and battery life of this device justify the price of this product. I have brought out this product everyday for work and every time I go working out. The small size of this device mixed with it's bluetooth functionality and it's audio quality make it practically a fool proof way of listening to music independent of the internet or without a bulky phone.

I am pretty happy with the unit as a whole, its super easy to load music onto it with no software needed, very easy to navigate with no unnecessary confusing menus. shows album art and has good organization of the library the sound quality is very good for the price...the only complaint i have is that most of the options to enhance or change sound quality are null and void without the expensive headphones that are not offered with the unit nor apparently sold in many places. you also cannot use the radio function without said headphones...also be aware the sound quality cannot be changed in any way using bluetooth. with that said the options you still have with regular headphones or aux connection are pretty good on their own (you can use the equalizer and clearAudio+) bluetooth connection sound is nothing to complain about, connecting is easy and reliable with a decent range battery life is awesome, lasts multiple days depending on level of use and whether or not its in bluetooth mode. all in all I'm happy with it and would recommend it to anyone

I purchased this because I have always had sony walkmans my whole life, my old Sony NWZ-S764 needed to be replaced. it still woked flawlessly but because it was purchased in late 2012, the battery was finally starting to show its age. I love my new A40 series so much. I don't think they still sell the model I got which was the A45, now its the A55, which is the same just newer model number. the battery life is great and the sound quality is incredible. just make sure you have good headphone ($99) or more or you wont know the true quality of this thing. I definitely would recommend purchasing one of these things because if youre like me and hate listening to music on your phone. plus truthfully, Smartphones don't have as good of sound quality as something that was specifically designed for music like a dedicated music device. hopefully this helps someone :)

It has bluetooth an nice size to fit in pocket an holds lots of music.