Digital Media PlayerNWZ-A15/A17

Customizing sound quality settings

You can use various functions to set the desired sound quality.

  1. From the Home menu, select [Settings].
  2. Select [Music Settings] - [Sound Settings] - desired function - desired setting.

Equalizer function

You can set the sound quality according to the music genre. You can also preset your equalizer settings as a custom setting.

VPT (Surround) function

You can set sound effects and enrich the sound reproduction quality of the audio playback. VPT, which stands for Virtualphones Technology, is a proprietary sound processing technology developed by Sony.

Hint

  • You can also set some sound quality items from the option menu in the music playback screen.

Note

  • The following settings cannot be changed while the [ClearAudio+] function is set to on.
    • [Equalizer]
    • [VPT (Surround)]
  • Sound effects such as [ClearAudio+], [Dynamic Normalizer], [Equalizer] and [VPT (Surround)] for High-Resolution Audio files cannot be enabled if you set [Hi-Res Audio Effects] to [Off (Direct Source)].
  • Sound effects such as [ClearAudio+], [Dynamic Normalizer], [Equalizer] and [VPT (Surround)] cannot be enabled if you set [DSEE HX] to [On].