Sony NW-WM1ZM2 vs Sony NW-ZX707

Both are portable players, $3700 against $898. This page puts them side by side on the only three things a maker can be held to — power, output impedance and noise — and then asks the question that actually matters: which headphones do they treat differently?

The Sony NW-WM1ZM2 reaches 100 dB on 552 of the 567 models here, the Sony NW-ZX707 on 550.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationSony NW-WM1ZM2Sony NW-ZX707
Power into 32Ω30 mW25 mW
Power into 150Ω6.4 mW5.3 mW
Power into 300Ω3.2 mW2.7 mW
Power into 600Ω1.6 mW1.3 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$3700$898
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
552550

A figure marked not published is missing from the maker’s own material, which is not the same as being good or bad. Where one of these two publishes a number and the other does not, the comparison on that axis cannot be made at all — and saying so is more useful than guessing.

The headphones that tell them apart

2 headphones reach 100 dB on the Sony NW-WM1ZM2 but not on the Sony NW-ZX707 — Audio-Technica ATH-R70xa, Moondrop PARA 2.

550 of the 567 models here reach 100 dB on both. That is a power count and nothing more; whether either source suits a given headphone also depends on the two lines above.

Both pages in full

Each has a page of its own with every power figure traced to what the maker published and a full headphone list: Sony NW-WM1ZM2 and Sony NW-ZX707. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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