COMPLY T-500 HEADPHONE EAR BUD FOAM TIPS

Well here is a surprise!

I purchased a pack of Medium Comply T-500 tips for my beloved Skullcandy Heavy Medal, well beloved until I but Sennheiser (oh no not again) IE-80 or Shure SE 535 or something similar.

There was a pair of Memory Foam Tip included, albeit one and I correctly guessed they were MEDIUM tips lol. I had initially assumed these WERE Comply and looked very much like many photo I have seen of them with their shape, look and patchwork quilt look alternating from matt, porous and shiny surface textures.

I suspect it might be the shiny bits that are key to how they sound but what surprised me was that I expected these to both FEEL the same as the included ones as well as SOUND the same. On the former I was correct in my assumptions but on the latter I was rather shockingly way off the mark!

Basically I HAD to turn the volume down on my Fiio E7 from the usual 42-45 level to around 35-38 and it was on 35 for hours before I upped it a little ... err then dropped it after a track or two, lmao.

Yes they really do improve the sound and I must say that I am very pleased to have my doubts on what I had read previously well and truly quashed!

I have also had many thoughts in the last couple of days wondering if there are a better pair, noise isolation is better than included pair but I can still hear, and what they would sound like on better headphones that have bigger drivers, a la Sennheiser IE80, or MORE drivers, a la Shure SE 425 or 535?!

Oh dear! I will think I will wait a month before deciding whether I want to go down that road of finding out?!

Also in the pictures provided you can see that the back of the pack shows you compatible headphones but PLEASE NOTE mine are not on it?! LMAO. So just because yours are not there do not assume they will not fit!

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GREY PAIR ARE NOT COMPLY! LMAO!

(They came WITH the Skullcandy Heavy Medal)

CASING THE FIIO & SONY WALKMAN by WEIFENG

Well if like me you have been bamboozled looking for a case to house your newly found heavenly sounds that are a Sony Walkman (shudder to owning a Sony again) and your Fiio Portable Amp then I am here to help!

LMAO!

EDIT: Seems hard to find but goes under name of Fancier and I have only found 3 smaller cases of the other 15 they make even for ZOOM DLSRs?!

EDIT: Search for :

Fancier Photo View Accessory Bag/Memory card/Remote/battery holder/Case UK

In fact I bought something that is 99.9% perfect.

Well in fact it would be perfect if bloody Fiio would stop doing what most companies do, are you LISTENING SONY, and act as if Apple are the only people who make portable MP3 players?! I would KILL for a 'L' shaped Line Out lead, like the one they do for the iPod!!!!

Incidentally I tried passing music through the player via the 3.5mm jack as opposed to the Sony dock connector ... DON'T!! JUST DON'T!!! I was amazed at how crap the sound quality was ... I really was as well as the amount of difference too.

For all those out there that returned their portable amps or run them down for being not all that well you must be the ones who refused to pay that extra £5 to £8 for the Line Out lead and ... oh boy what a bloody big mistake you made.

These things are brilliant and I would not go anywhere without them and if I end up leaving the house in a hurry and forgotten to top up their JUICE prior to leaving I am disappointed with myself. Well throwing myself off a bridge like disappointed, lol.

Now yu have to understand that despite owning TWO smartphones and previous phones capable of playing music as well as owning a iPod Classic Video thingy (yes, yes I KNOW) this is the first time I have listened to music while BEING MOBILE! This has become CONSTANT too!!

MANUFACTURER: WEIFENG

(I KNOW NOTHING OF THE MANUFACTURER NOR THERE LOCATION)

(Eagle Eyed: But that is a camera case! ME: No imbecile its just a bloody case! lol)

I am normally dead SET AGAINST Velcro Belt Loops but NOT this time! These are stiff and sturdy and the belt loop attaches to back of case and a loose section loops over for a reassuring hold!

(Now why do other manufacturers do not think of these simple things?!?! i mean these cases DO house expensive gadgets after all!)

 Even the case itself is quite stiff, reassuringly so and good padding too.

That clever loop over part I mentioned. You can see the stiff look of the belt loop and it is as stiff and sturdy as it looks!

A picture of the top with the Fiio E7 & Sony Walkman housed within. Despite how it looks, it is a tight squeeze I admit hence 99.9% perfect, it does zip close easily. This is probably down to the stiff and well made casing.

Side on view with the Fiio E7 and the Walkman is in there as it is never taken OFF the Fiio!! LOL!

Not pushed RIGHT in but to give you an idea. I should ADD that the other end of the two devices does have an 'L' Cable. So should you purchase this when you use NO 'L' Cables whatsoever then it will not fit!!

But then this case may come in other sizes?! Oddly enough this reminds me of what I thought when I was out for the first time with this case ... 'Bloody Hell! I am buying more of these!!' One for my compact Nikon and I may look to see of there are indeed bigger and smaller ones?!

PAIRING THE FIIO AND SONY WALKMAN

Well here is a couple of what I hope to be informative posts regarding PORTABLE MUSIC that in ENJOYABLE within EUROPE?!?!

Eh, EU?! LMAO!

I now have my Sony Walkman NWZ-A845 wrapped in a Silicone case that has slot for an Armband, also included. This has now reduced the need for a couple of things and they pair up back to back while remaining still and sturdy.

See next post for the perfect case for them!

See the post POST that post, lol, to the explanation as the why my Skullcandy Heavy Medal Earbuds have turned RED?!

FIIO E7 PORTABLE HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER

Right some odd things about this one you eagle eyed out there will notice!

This IS a Fiio E7 in all but name ... well it does have a E7 in its name within the PHE7 AB model number that is, lol. To my surprise I fond this on Amazon and I knew immediately that it was a Fiio E7 and I guess the sell a bunch of unbranded ones to someone, Pyle in New York on this occasion, who re-brand them.

This is a common practise and only come about due to the greed that has infected the western world and had everyone send out their manufacturing abroad which has not benefited the country who outsourced and did help the countries who took o the manufacturing. I have a pair of Revelation Astro 15x70 Binoculars and along with them are the Celestron Skymaster 15x70 and Adler Optik Jupiter 15x70 are all made in the same factory in China and there could well be others.

So now that we have that out of the way, as I read someone state somewhere who is obviously devoid of brain matter that someone should send their Pyle E7 back and get the Fiio E7 as they are better. You bloody idiot! LMAO.

Anyway... on first firing up I was appalled at the sound and thought, what the hell?!?! It was utter crap and OK yes it was loud, alot louder yes but all this talk about the volume limiter function I was wary I might blow the headphones apart. No you will not do that and after turning this volume limit ON I then turned it OFF and it stayed OFF, lol.

Then I remembered I had pumped up all the setting on my Sony Walkman NWZ-A845 so went in and turned them all off, changed the Matrix setting to Studio, as only that or NONE improves sound, and dropped all the pumped up equalizers to one above the flat line.

BA-BOOM!!! We was in business!!! Oh boy that was just the ticket. I then went out and about with my new gadgets linked up, using some extra bumf by the way with the Line Out Fiio cable for the Sony dock socket a gold plated 3.5mm jack coupler and the angled 3.5mm jack to jack lead. Rubber band around them and off.

By the time I had been out an hour things sounded even better still and the volume was great. I had also set the equaliser setting on the Fiio, or Pyle, Amplifier to 1 out of the 0-4 settings which all seem to be just bass boosts. On these headphones, the Skullcandy Heavy Medal, these setting seem to be about perfect.

Do not take these as the perfect setting for you if you buy or indeed OWN ALREADY one of these as you will simply have to play around to find them best settings. I have three other headphones here and they are Atomic Floyd Airjax Titanium 2, AiAiAi Y-Connects and old over the ear Koss TNT/88 and I can assure you that what works for one will NOT work for another. I tested all four headphones and on each occasion I had to drastically alter settings on BOTH devices to get a good sound.

In the box you get a thick Velvet type pouch, not BIG enough, a rubber band, you need TWO, and a silicon rubber case. The rubber case is a great inclusion but the others were not thought out and I do not know if this was the fault of Fiio or Pyle on this occasion. My Sony Walkman is VERY THIN but wrapped around the back of the Fiio and it will not go in the pouch so nothing else is likely to either.

The jack sockets on the device are a little temperamental and there is the experimental side of my brain is thinking their could be a way around this. My device had some light scratches on the screen and I wondered if it had been a return or refurbished one but did not say on the advert.

The Fiio E7 normally sells at around £63 to £65 so I was surprised to see this one for £49.99 and was intending to get the E11. I have not found out as yet why the E11 is cheaper than the E7 as normally the model numbers increase in price with the model number.

Anyway after initially reading some bad things about this device AFTER ORDERING IT I will now NOT be sending it back. Over my dead body will I be doing that, oh unless it fails for some reason of course but if it does I will simply get another one and make sure it is better again and with no manufacturing problems.

HOORAY!!

Oddly I started to recall the Pyle name after ordering and realised the first car I eve owned had speakers in it by them?! LOL That was a Vauxhall Viva!!

The cable in the picture is the Line Out and does NOT come with device. If they did it would be a much bigger box with all the necessary cables to all the different docks there are! Around £6 give or take a pound or two.

 Rubber band (see Fiio and says Fiio on the manual too!)

Pyle logo glows pink/red when charging, goes out when full.

Ze BOX!

The Control buttons all together.

The POUCH ... OK for just the AMP!

The silicone case but you GUESS the buttons!

From amp: Jack to Jack-Coupler-Line Out

Need second band as the devices keep moving! Scratches? Nope two pieces rubber between them!

Now you can see the rubbers

Mind you if the band was TIGHTER?!

Skullcandy Heavy Medal Headphones

After realising that my beloved AiAiAis grumbled and complained over Bus rides I knew I would have to replace them at some point.

My many a year want where a pair by Shure and preferably the SE535s. However that was an expense i could not stretch too and likely never will and both Littlewoods and very, very curiously ONLY stock headphones that have a really bad reputation for failing inside a year and are NOT authorised dealers of most of the crap they sell you anyway... so a recipe for disaster and an invite to be ripped off, ignored and then taken to court for a higher amount than the RRP for a refurbished product.

I digress.

I had long visited TK Maxx and browsed there headphones and recently passed up a very nice pair of Philips O'Neills that were £17.50 from £90 odd! Missing bits and cable.

I had also previously seen Skullcandy Full Metal Jackets and many seem to use Skullcandys and had passed up my chance. I had checked them out on Amazon's reviewers, have to be careful with reviewers on headphones, and noticed that the Heavy Medal was the most premium headphones.

A few days back, and just after ordering a Fiio Portable Amplifier to be posted NEXT, I walked into TK Maxx and see a pair of Full Metal Jackets only when I was looking down the side of the hanging rail they were suspended from the box behind stated ... HEAVY MEDAL?! AS the Full Metal Jackets are normally £29.99 I thought these would be £34.99 or even £39.99 and as I had just spent £50 I started to curse not waiting on the other order.

I checked to see if there were any other pairs of these with the option of hiding one at the back of the shelf somewhere, lol very sad, when I suddenly noticed that they were priced up at £19.99?!

I then spotted they have a pair of tips looking like Comply Memory Foams and that was it, I was holding them tight and hobbling towards the queue.

They are made of metal and are bizarrely light. Carry tin is metal too as are the other parts that appear metal. The tips are better than I thought they would be, a little fiddly but less so than the yellow tips that came with the AiAiAis. I am not sure what size the foam tips are and it does not state this, annoyingly as I still do not know which size to order which I will need to do in a couple of weeks.

The tips do not block out all sound and I know this due to the gaps between tracks and I will get into that with the next post!

They sound great and ever so slightly better that the AiAiAis and in all honesty I have not tried the silicone nor the triple flange tips yet but will tomorrow.

A local store had a pair of Atomic Floyd MiniDarts and now have Atomic Floyd Superdarts which I would have bought in a couple of weeks. So saved myself a whole heap of cash on these, unless they fail within two weeks of course, lol.

I hope not as I really do feel nothing at all when they are inserted in the ear. I know not that they are there and only the music lets me know they are still in place.

Also my left ear has pressure trouble and using the silicone tips of any kind is damned annoying as I have to push and pull them around in y left ear to stop the ear from popping and losing 50% or more of my hearing on that side. I do not have this with the right side which is slightly down on hearing... ohhh long story. No pressure troubles with these tips which are exactly what I had hoped and more.

These are pretty decent headphones before you go into ORBIT on pricing and they have an oversized driver which is around 13.5mm and on the pricier headphones I have seen 9mm to 11mm so this was a surprise.

Nice and will suit me well in case of any 6 hour coach journeys I might have to take in 2013!

Along with the Headphone Amplifier these two seemed to get better as time went on while I was out and about listening to them. Yes I have read about this umm warming up thing people refer to but I do not know which models of headphone it applies to, like only expensive cutting edge models, or whether or not it is just anal talk but audiophiles that are anything but and a PLACEBO effect going on and really its just your ears getting used to the new sounds and frequencies.

Well something was definitely going on even if I cannot say with any certainty what it was!

Hmm only does make me wonder what the Shures and Westones would sound like though?! LOL.

My Logik DAB Radio

I got this thing cheap and love it. Looks cool with that pine and silver design!

Normally had finances, due to the government, been different I would have bought a Roberts or a Pure DAB Radio but this was silly cheap and looked cool as well as matching my house and furniture!

Think I paid £17.56 for it.

If I am not listening to Planet Rock Radio or that Arrow then i am normally listening to LBC or even as I am about to do in the bath listening to the match between my beloved pains in the arse Spur v. Everton!

Well made for the money and works better than a Technika one I have upstairs as my alarm clock radio. This one goes one better has stereo speakers too!

KOSS TNT88 HEADPHONES with PHOTOS!!

I forgot I had these and dug them out this morning and thought I would show you how headphones SHOULD be made and USED to be made.

I understand that these were a popular favourite way back then and that Koss were one of the top, if not THE top, headphone manufacturers of the time.

They are mint condition and I plugged them into my Sony Walkman NWZ's and am currently listening to Cream's White Room on them! THEY SOUND GREAT!! LMAO!

Hmm I wonder if classic headphones can become antique and collectable?! Hehehe!

But then I also wonder what I would have to spend today to get a BETTER sound while being just as reliable?!?!


This is why I have lambasted many headphones lately costing anywhere between £80 to £350 for their absolutely fragile and faulty manufacture. These Koss were around £60 to £80 back then and the Jeklyn Float were about £150, though I loved that Doctor Who Cyberman like design of the Floats.

My brother bought there many years ago and ended up with Jeklyn Float Headphones and I inherited these. Did not know a great deal about them or other headphones at the time but I loved them and have had these since before my daughter was born who is a few months away from 20 years of age!


I had to give them a bit of a wipe down as they have been gathering dust for several years and I can see fron the photos below I missed some of the dust, plus the hair and dust on the headband?! LOL. Every part of these are present and correct and even the leather is tip-top.

Triple Flange Earbuds on my AIAIAIs

First off I want to say my little experiment is still a go and the parts are on there way to me, COULD be here tomorrow but more likely Monday 3rd December.

Meanwhile I received these, pictured below, Triple Flanged Ear Buds today in the post I ordered via the Amazon website.

I was originally wanting memory foams from Shure or Comply but due to prices looked at these by Shure but due to prices that are taking the pi...mickey I found these at £5.99?!

I thought they would be crap and was immediately obvious that the diameter of my buds openings were a fair bit bigger than those on these Silicon Buds but it was not a problem. After some teasing they went on pretty tight and with some twisting went right up the the main body, no fear of them coming off like the supplied ones did then?!

Also they sound pretty OK for cheap silicone buds and I went out to run some errands so took them for a test and to my shock NEVER ONCE did either earphone come out of my ear?!

I very much doubt sound isolation (leakage) is very good as when there was no music I could hear people speaking to me. But as I do not travel on public transport during rush hours and not much anyway unless empty it does not matter a jot to me.

My ALL TIME Favourite Tracks! LEVEL ONE

I thought it would be a good idea to list the tracks that have been a personal favourite of mine of late and these will have one or two more recent tracks, probably a surprise, as well as those going back years.

These are just the ones I have listed under Best of the Best One...

Van Morrison - Moondance
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - Mad World
The Waterboys - Don't Bang the Drum
Trent Raznor, Atticus Ross feat. Karen O - The Immigrant Song
Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric
Lily Allen - The Fear
No Doubt - It's My Life
Ozzy Osbourne - Perry Mason
Kate Bush - The Man With the Child In His Eyes

OOPS CALLED AWAY EDIT LATER!!!

NO MUSIC?! NO MEMORY?! SWEEX OPTIMUO!

One to avoid for so many reasons I cannot be arsed to list them all...

oh OK buttons, screen, tricky, problematic, touch a button and it drops volume a couple of levels. Refuses to acknowledge its own memory and refuses to acknowledge top Sandisk memory cards. Though both these never appear the same time so it is 50% of the time for each, always reads ONE and not the OTHER!

How does a piece of crap like this get sold in the UK?!

Anywhere for that matter?!?!

Grrr still refuses to read from FLICKR?!?! Numb-nuts you people!! LMAO!!

I will be back to add this in now I have been forced over to Picasa?! No Picasa refuses to upload my pictures and Blogger refuses to see my pictures on my FLICKR URLs, hmm that is covenient?!

Apparently CASH would sort it out, no wait a minute ... aren't bloggers not supposed to MAKE money and not SPEND money?!

Go figure!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8216630087/    Corrupt screen


http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8217716040/     No memory apparently

AIAIAI Y-CONNECTS

Crap name but great sound!!

Well I have referred to them several times and probably had many readers, not that  have many, wondering that in the world I was on about...

Well due to a curious thing in that my new Sony Walkman has transformed these and they were already damn good anyway I thought I might cover them here.

Oddly I have had a problem with these which I initially thought was something to do with the earphones but I am now 99% convinced, and I NEVER end up wrong when I am THAT convinced, that this is down to my left ear having some kind of problem. Rather bizarrely I have been well aware of a problem in my right ear for years and the sensitivity is less so than the left. However when I got these particular in ear headphones whenever I used the large and long ear-buds in the picture my hearing would go down by half or more. Rather like when you ears pop through air pressure and everything goes dull! This is what takes place when I try to use these on my left ear whereas the right has no issues. In an attempt to correct this I pierced many holes with a sewing needle in the silicone and even made a small cut and now though they still make my ears pop I can wiggle them around and this stops. However the monitor is still so loosely placed in my ear that if used while out it starts to slip out every ten minutes or so.

Now they sound better than the Atomic Floyds, which are not In-Ear headphones and need more power, hence an upcoming series of testable theories I have in mind. Certainly going out these AiAiAi's are fabulous. Normally retails around £65 I believe and made in Belgium.

They come in a fantastic container that really caught my eye and I spotted these in TK Maxx for £25 around a year ago! There were other colours but a bot loud and gaudy, not to mention girly, for my taste! They do a smaller model too and a number of other headphones besides.

They have certainly made me wonder now what pairs of £130 to £250 Shure headphones sound like.

These are utterly durable and I have never had any other problems other than one which is my own anyway.

A shock to hear that good a sound quality from an otherwise unknown brand and they were leagues ahead of my Sennheiser CX-400 II which failed after 3 weeks. Oddly a Bluetooth headset of theirs broke down after 3 months and Sennheiser do not like the number 3 that is for sure.

Better still they come with 7 sets of ear-buds and a bright yellow memory foam set. The only problem being is that the memory foam set are way too large and fiddly to get in and uncomfortable. Odd as they only included one set and I have not found smaller ones available by this company?! This is even more strange when I can tell you my ear holes are somewhere between a medium and a large so I reckon the used Marvel's Hulk as a test dummy for the memory foams?! LMAO!

CORPORATE SHENANIGANS

I first purchased a Sony Walkman in 1985?! Yes 1985 and I was living in Brighton on the south coast at the time. I loved it and Sony became my brand of choice and this stayed that way for many years which included any portable music, any TVs and also seperate stack hifis, as we called them back then. Prices I remember are £50 (1985 Walkman that was Black with Green Strip), £600 (one TV 26" around 1989), £2,200 (TV DVD Home Cinema System 1999, Girlfriend bought), £1,100 (HIFI around 1988).

But since 1999, which technically I did not purchase anyway, the only thing I bought was a Sony PSP butthe whole UMD thing cheesed off a great many people, and companies! The PSP Go, or whatever it was called, I was told went down like a 'lead balloon' and this is probably because they reied to tie people down even further ... APPLE-STYLEE?! LMAO.

I am being unfair but only in the extent that it always goes the same way and this is what is wrong with the world and has been for sometime now. 

Small company becomes big, care less about customers it once did as you have now acquired a Steve Ballmer (head of Microsoft) type character ... or three.

Once innovative are now becoming restrictive and the reason is always the same... MONEY FOR NOTHING, or OLD ROPE whichever you prefer. Something that unless your rich and powerful you get locked up for.

So your planning to can manufacturing TVs? Well maybe it is because there are many hoards of people like me who started deserting you over the last dozen years or so? So you stop producing TVs but who is to say that you stubborn insistence to stay with these tactics will not then result in you announcing OTHER things you will stop producing?!

Anyway you can counter this a little by pumping up all levels of a custom preset on the Equalizer to maximum ad this surprisingly does not distort the sound in anyway. On PowerAmp on my phone I only have to BREATHE on the touch-screen on the equalizer settings and the sound will distort?! Oh OK yes I am exaggerating but only a little that is the crazy thing! I wondered why in the hell it was included at all its far more trouble than it is worth it really is. I have spent night after night messing with the thing when all along I fialed to realise it was the European Union that had wasted many nights of my time I cannot get back...hmmm perhaps a legal case against them might be in order?!

I just wish that these corporates would get together and go throw themselves in a river, I do not know what they are teaching in Business Degrees lately but if these actions are of a result of that these Universities should be lambasted for this.

SONY WALKMAN NWZ-A845 (older is better)

In my previous post I stated how I walked around Sainsburys supermarket with a grin on my face and goosebumps...

...well here is the reason why that took place.

The Sony Walkman NWZ-A845 and despite it being an older model I deliberately went for this over its newer version, the NWZ-A865, as this is way better to look at not to mention noticeably thinner. Why do companies like Sony bring out such a fantastic design and then ruin it with the replacement?!

I could have purchased the A865 brand new for £20 more than I paid for this which was obviously used, hmm maybe this music blog can double up on the best USED items to buy?! LMAO.

The sound from this had a clarity I have never heard previously before anywhere and I was utterly shocked at it being literally worlds away from anything I have had in the past and that includes a 160GB Apple iPod classic. So I now know that the reviewers that stated that the Apple iPods sounded better where lying!

As I had read on the internet this is not only MUTED by the EU but also that it is noticeable as, as they stated, once you hit 25 on the volume level any other increases from there up to the maximum of 30 makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever! In fact I find this true when I hit 24!

Now I have known people to be so upset with this that they have sold theirs even though they loved the device and whenever I read this I thought it was foolish, even before I received this one?!

The reason is that you can buy a small amplifier for these as you can any portable device and that includes smartphones. These are made by Fujiyama and are called the Fiio and they range from £8.00, yes eight, to £20, £50 and continue on until around £200.

The Sony also has a built in FM Radio which is nice but not primarily what I bought it for but it works well. The only thing is that whenever I see anything with the letters 'FM' I wonder how long radio will be around on that what with DAB being around a few years now?! There is no station names though on it but I do not really care.

In fact there were a couple of things, albeit slight, that if slightly better would make this about the best gadget I have EVER OWNED, BAR NONE!!

DAB instead of FM would be one, though being louder than the two smartphones I have owned, a Sweex Optimuo AND an Apple iPod Classic this is missing a couple of levels. Damn the EU and their 80dB limit because they just cannot help treating their public like little children and getting paid royally for the privilege?! Oops that is another blog entirely, lol.

Another would be 32GB or even 64GB Memory or better still a bloody SD CARD SLOT YOU MORONS?! LOL. You put them on the phones so put them on the media players. A phone is A PHONE that seems to be able to do media, albeit badly on many occasions. While a MEDIA PLAYER IS A MEDIA PLAYER?! One is designed to do this from the ground up hence its existence while the other is NOT!! It is not difficult to work out and like an ex friend said to me before we fell out ... IT's NOT ROCKET SCIENCE?!

If you all want to keep selling these kind of products and do not want them going the way of what I hear Sony TVs are going then I suggest you stop the messing around with many things, stop the corralling of sheep as your actions have not gone unnoticed and try selling the public and the specific groups you are targeting with ... WHAT THEY BLOODY WANT?!?!

What I have in the pictures below is a nigh on perfect gadget and OK I can live without the DAB, sure, and just another thing on my wanted list. BUT check the laws on the supposed EU limits on sound, do not let them push you around like they do us. Add an SD Card slot....

I digress ... again! This Sony Walkman is unbelievably thin when held in the hand and yet it does not feel loose or fragile in any way. In fact it feels of superior quality entirely.

Under the last photograph which is of the sockets at the bottom of the device is a little prelude into Part TWO of this review, albeit on another gadget linked to this one. ;)

Right the last photo showing the 3.5mm jack and docking/charging socket.

Now I have discovered that the limitation by the EU is applied to the 3.5mm jack socket? So sound coming from the dock would be LOUDER?! You would think that someone would think of a way to get around this right? Well they DID!! After reading a great many reviews on the Fiio Headphone amplifiers I realised that as well as plugging them into a jack socket out of the box you can also buy an adaptor that takes the sound from the DOCK SOCKET?! This includes all portable devices provided that they had a dock socket that can carry a sound signal.

I have a couple of theories that include variations on this and over the next month I will be testing my theories and I have not read of anyone else trying my theory out on the Internet, well one of the two, but I full intend to cover them right here.

Oh dear that now means THREE PARTS?! LMAO!