I lost my digital Walkman many years ago. After that, iTunes was discontinued, so I never bought another Walkman.
Today I found it. Cleaned and charged. Everything works like new. The glorious Walkman is Sony NWZ-A828.
For all these years I was only listening streaming radios.
Today I was blown away by the sound quality of AAC non compressed codec with CD bitrate quality sound.
Lucky for me, my Walkman has more than 600 songs from 80s & 90s stored. I'm having a really great day. I forgot how beautiful non compressed music is, especially from 80's & 90's, it has even stereo effects.
P.S. Fuck modern junk muisc and low bit rate streaming radios junk.
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. It was designed to be the successor of the MP3 format and generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate.
bobdole9 1 points 2 months ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding