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 ...

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.

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.