I received a Sony Walkman cassette player with headphones included as a gift about 23 years ago, and I loved the idea of listening to music in a portable way with the intimacy that the headphones provided. Initially I wasn't into collecting headphones, I started collecting music in cassettes, then at around 2004 I received a portable cd player with good sounding headphones included and I started collecting CDs and discovering new genres and music in general. Later, I received an iPod shuffle and the madness for MP3s and digital formats started, and at that time I thought that the earbuds included with the iPod sounded good. In 2006 the Sony Ericsson Walkman series of phones came and I bought a W810, and the IEMs that came with the phone sounded very good, definitely better than anything I had heard. I think at that point I started developing an interest in IEMs and headphones. About a year later I bought my first pair of headphones, some skull candy, the hesh model I think, and those were very uncomfortable and the sound was off, the Sony IEMs sounded better to me and I couldn't believe it. I erroneously thought that all full size headphones inherently sounded better than any little earbud/IEM, I was disappointed. So I sold the skull candy headphones and I searched in the internet about skull candy, good headphones and so on and that's how I discovered head-fi, it was around 2007 and a lot of people recommended brands like Sennheiser, AKG, Phiaton, Grado... I spent hours and hours reading the full size headphone forum and I bought a pair of Senns HD205 and my journey officially started. I created my account on 2012 and the rest is history.
