[stinos]

The psychoacoustic modelling on the audio is not, however!!

There were quite some improvements between older and the latest models though, and the latter could also use uncompressed and/or lossless schemes.

the fascination with it at all.

One thing I really liked about it is the handling of discs. I don't know why, but I just liked the feeling of opening the player, ejecting a disc and inserting another one with a satisfactory 'click'.

[72deluxe]

A bit like using an old cassette walkman then!

Wobbling CDs into top-loading CD players was never as satisfying (and you were likely to scratch the underside of it as you slid it into the caddy).

Loading MP3s isn't satisfying at all.