jmtd → music → historic

My hacked expedit, RIP

For five years or so I housed my Hi-Fi in a customised Ikea "Expedit" shelving system (Ikea later replaced the Expedit with the Kallax), which has now sadly been retired. For most of that time my amp was a stalwart Rotel RA-712 from 1976.

pleasant memories

The first pair of vaguely decent non-earbud phones was a pair of AKG K512s which were good, but the Sennheisers really put how good into perspective. On-the-move, I really loved a pair of AKG K451 fold-able on-ear headphones. I still have fond memories of my first pair of "real" over-ear headphones, the Sennheiser HD438s.

iPod with rockbox

Until the last few years, I always used a Personal Music Player (PMP) for listening on-the-go. The last one was an iPod Video with an iFlash adaptor, running the Rockbox open source firmware, which I still have in a drawer on standby.

My first PMP was an iRiver H140.

For a long time I used a succession of Sandisk Sansa-branded PMPs, from the Sansa Fuze (v1 or v2), Sansa Clip Zip and a Sansa Clip+ (gift from my previous coworkers, thanks!). These were great players, but like all things they eventually wear out, and new ones became too costly to buy, so I moved to a hacked iPod.

In the dim and distant past I was a big minidisc fan. I only recently parted with my Sony MZ-R70 minidisc player. I still have a Sony cassette walkman somewhere.