Zed A. Shaw, Painter

I at one point had collected a huge Music collection. It was at 131GB at one point, and I kept it on a network drive to play for years. I then moved and lost the network drive, then moved again and found it, still with all of my music on it.

I pulled all the music off and it's decades of random interests. African Music to Jazz to BeBop to Death Metal to P-Funk to Classical all over the place, in as high a quality as I could possibly find. When I lost this treasure trove of weird I just shrugged and got Amazon.

Lately the sound quality of most streaming has been going down, Amazon "loses" the few songs I did upload to their service. It's mostly full of pop and trash, with a few nice things here and there but nothing too indie. I kind of wanted to just get off it and go back to mine.

So when I bought my Sony MH-1000xm3 headphones, I noticed that it will play LDAC wirelessly when paired up with the Sony Walkman. I go and research the Walkman and at first I was like, "HAHAHAHA you can GFYS you think I'm spending $2k on an iPod."

Then I saw they also offer the NW-A55 and that still supports all the LDAC and crazy sound quality features, at a much nice smaller package with 45+ hours of battery life, plus *SD CARD SUPPORT* That means I can load my entire massive collection on it, and add even more.

I ordered one, and it finally came in the mail today, so I've been trying it out. Here's my review so far: 1. Very tiny and light. 2. Yet another fucking cable? Really? 3. LDAC sound quality is insane. WTF? 4. Pairing with NFC right off the headphones is great.