Sony's $5,900 Walkman NW-WM1ZM3 has a gold-plated copper chassis

Sony has launched its most expensive Walkman yet, the $5,900 NW-WM1ZM3, nearly double the $3,000 NW-WM1AM3. Its chassis is machined from gold-plated 99.99% oxygen-free copper, with Kimber Kable wiring, large polymer capacitors and an updated DSD engine upscaling to 11.2 MHz. It runs Android 16 with a 5.5-inch screen, 256 GB storage and up to 33 hours of hi-res playback.

• At $5,900 it costs nearly twice the $3,000 NW-WM1AM3 and tops the $3,700 ZM2
• Chassis machined from gold-plated 99.99% oxygen-free copper
• DSD Remastering Engine converts files to an 11.2-MHz stream
• 4.5-hour charge gives up to 33 hours of hi-res playback; 490 g