As a former owner of a Sony Walkman and then an iPod Nano, before moving entirely to phones and Spotify, it was a delicious bit of nostalgia. I hadn’t used wired headphones regularly in years.

Sony Walkman E394, a simple DAP ... You can connect any pair of wired headphones or earbuds to the Walkman, as long as they have a 3.5mm connector. Now, the Walkman is from before the era of ...

At the apex of the Walkman craze ... the engineers inside Sony weren’t impressed. It wasn’t particularly innovative; cassette players already existed, and so did headphones.

The sound quality through the included stereo earbud headphones ... bass than the wired headset. The Walkman music player supports playlists, and has shuffle, repeat, an equalizer, bass boost ...