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I used to think well of Sony but my PS3 has lowered my opinion of them as much as the issues with Sony laptops that family members own. I'd love to see them invest in quality and turn things around but I don't expect them to. It's like they've lost the ability to think through the whole experience so even their nice products have extreme low points.

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Sony hit a quality nadir 5ish years ago, from what I've heard they've decided recently they can't compete with Samsung and LG at making cheap crap with good components and they're trying to be a quality company again. The Xperia Z hawt secks for example. I haven't touched a PS4 yet or a VitaStation, so I can't speak to their other flagship products.

I'd love to see Sony take on Apple in making quality well-designed equipment and metal laptops. Even if Sony is just as bad as (if not worse than) Apple on IP law.

They still make the best reasonably-priced studio headphones in the business, the MDR-7506. It's a fairly old design at this point, though.

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