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My love affair with music was an interesting one.

It all began when I was in Secondary 2, when I had 100 bucks in my pocket which I wanted to spend to buy something for myself. I was going to spend that on a TV Tuner for my Gameboy Advance, but it was out of stock everywhere I looked. Then I chanced upon a tiny MP3 player from WeeWa! with a whooping 64mb of memory and cost only $99. I bought it.

I started dumping music into the player and love my player to the core. It simply rocks. Having an MP3 player is so much fun.

And the player broke two weeks later when the screen was smashed by a coin residing in the same pants pocket as the player, when the bus I was on did an emergency brake.

Troubled by the prospect of having no MP3 player, I bought another one.

My next MP3 player was a 256mb Creative MuVo Slim. I bought it for 336, and Creative had the guts to price drop it drastically. I began to hate MP3 players. They have fixed memories and quickly dropping prices.

I wanted something with high quality sound. I wanted something that nobody uses. I wanted something unique. I wanted something with replaceable batteries and memory. I researched and found Hi-MD. One of the best choices I’ve ever made.

I took out 549 bucks that would put any iPod owners who are proud of their “expansive” gadget to shame, both price-wise and sound quality wise. I had never own any digital audio player that sounded better than my MZ-NH900.

Later I grew tired for the strange audio artifacts that manifest themselves very heavily on my Audio Technical Ath-EM5. So I did some research and bought Koss Porta Pro, a headphone that had been around since the 1980s, unmatched in price and sound quality since it launch until the entry of Shenn’s MX100 in the 2000s. I bought it, and with my MZ-NH900, life was good.

The same year, a new line of Hi-MD players came out. The highest end model, at a freaking high price tag of US499, was the only MD player in the world that comes with a colour LCD screen and built in camera. I want it. I have no money for it. But my lucky break came when in 2006 various online stores began dropping price on the player (due to low demand, which was due to the outrageously high price tag). I bought it without hesitation for S$350. Life was great.

After enlistment into the army, I left my Hi-MD gears behind. My MZ-NH900 was filling up my girlfriend’s ears with fantastic music, while my DH10P (the one with the camera) was sleeping at home. This was because SAF don’t allow cameras in the camp.

Then I wanted something cool and something that may sound on par or better than an MD player to use in camp. My eyes turned to iAudio’s D2. I wanted to buy it, but the cheaper 2GB models (S$273) was deliberately out of stock, while the 4GB models were expensive (S$388). The player comes with a miniSD slot, so the amount of built in memory didn’t really matter to me. Because of the high demand, low supply, and high price, I’ll be giving this sweet DAP a miss.

However, next time, when a better DAP comes out from iAudio comes out which meets what I want a DAP for, I’m getting it:)

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