I have been listening to music for many years and was musing the other day about how far music recordings have come in my life time. When I first started out there were turntables only and one never picked one up for fear of scratching the records and certainly never hung from your belt. While I was listening a transition was made to tapes, which eliminated the scratching problem and one could hang a player from your belt if you did not mind your pants hitting the floor, the newer ones were a bit better but still a bit big and one certainly did not put the player in his/her pocket. Since I left the music seen all those years ago a transition was made to CDs then to MP3s, So there is a bit of techno shock when I returned to the music seen a few months ago. These little things are really tiny compared to those tape decks I used to wear and the sound, amazing.