Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

upgraded my portable hifi stuff finally after months of crackle and sound quality loss at the jack - mp3 player interface on my cowon plenue d2, it needed a wiggle to get the connections right and if you hit a bump in the road while cycling the connection / quality could change for the worse, quite annoying

my grado sr60's also died on me after probably 10 years of use and abuse. wanted to find a cowon but seems like they're just not available here so went for the sony NW-A306 walkman, https://www.sony.co.uk/walkman/products/nw-a306 then picked a pair of grado sr80x's, the grados are gradually wearing in and sounding better each time i put them on. think they're run in now. it's a good pairing to my cloth ears, there a bit too much tech on the sony, wifi connectivity blue tooth techy stuff etc but once i got to grips with it and set up a decent graphics equaliser level i'm pretty happy, haven't tried a side by side listen with the old plenue but will do at some point to see if i can hear any significant difference, i doubt there'll be much
added a 128GB memory card so now can put about 2400 cd quality flac tracks on it, could only get about 50 tracks with out the upgraded memory, bit of a con but hey ho
and it does have an annoying habit of freezing occasionally, with requires a restart which is a 1-2 min process, not really to sure why maybe problems with the ripping process

but overall i'll give the new combo an 8.5 - 9 / 10
happy to have full hi-fidelity on the move once again