The Hi-Fi Atlas
← Makers

Digital source / Japan

Sony

Sony makes consumer and professional electronics. Its HAP-Z1ES digital music player is represented in a Tokyo listening-room installation.

Digital players & DACs
Instagram ↗Website ↗

Equipment index

Products in the rooms

Browse all Sony equipment

Venue equipment records, including their original model uncertainties. Shared-system entries retain the full recorded context.

From the maker’s world.

Products, process and directly attributed installations.

Sony on Instagram

Photos and video published by @sony.

Open @sony on Instagram ↗

Hear it in the rooms.

Equipment, commissions and collaborations.

Tokyo / Japan

Spincoaster Music Bar ↗

Equipment in use

Spincoaster Music Bar lists Sony in its equipment list setup. The equipment details below reflect the venue record.

  • Shinjuku sources: HAP-Z1ES; SL-1200GAE-K (Sony / Technics)

Inside the system

Spincoaster’s branches have different systems. Shinjuku combines KOON / musikelectronic geithain 400NT speakers for digital playback with RL904s for vinyl, using a Sony HAP-Z1ES and Technics SL-1200GAE-K as sources. Ebisu uses geithain RL901K monitors with Technics SL-1200G, Pioneer CDJ-3000 and DJM-V10 equipment. Kagurazaka combines RL904s, an SL-1200GAE-K and AlphaTheta euphonia mixer with a cassette DJ setup. The branch distinctions are essential to understanding the inventory.

Read the system story ↗

Sapporo / Japan

BOSSA ↗

Equipment listed

Sony equipment is recorded in this venue’s system. This does not imply that the manufacturer designed or installed the system.

  • Digital players & DACs: CDP-555

Inside the system

The published system includes JBL M9500 K2 speakers, two Technics SP-10MKII turntables, a Marantz SC1000 preamplifier and a Mark Levinson 336L power amplifier. A Sony CDP-555 provides CD playback.

Read the system story ↗