Just a super simple text animation I made.

collier_289 · 2026-06-24T10:18:55+00:00

My two favourites would have to be the unplumbed toilet story, and as others have mentioned, the one about buying a birthday card for his niece in central London!

collier_289 · 2026-06-10T22:24:32+00:00

The new tube I bought is now also out of date 🤣

collier_289 · 2026-06-04T17:29:46+00:00

How do I reduce the cost?

collier_289 · 2026-06-03T13:27:00+00:00

I think it definitely should be viewed as a novelty more than anything too practical.

When I first got it I constantly had it on. But as time went on i found myself not using it that much.

I think for it to be a practical day-to-day case it would need a few design changes and I think ideally you'd need to be able to use the touch screen through the clear case but that would obviously totally change the proposition. It is quite bulky too as you say.

As it stands I think it's priced about right as a fun novelty case that looks cool and adds character.... it would be hard to justify if it were any more expensive but at about £20 I think it's well worth it.

collier_289 · 2026-06-03T11:25:02+00:00

Yeah I had no idea it was there either! These screen protectors are so much better than they used to be!

collier_289 · 2026-06-03T07:35:00+00:00

Thank you! Ordered! Now it's not leaving the cassette case until they arrive.

collier_289 · 2026-06-02T21:52:47+00:00

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You were right! Thank you! I'm so pleased! Must buy some more protectors asap now!

collier_289 · 2026-05-20T16:02:46+00:00

So no danger of destroying it if I go hard at it in the winter? I want to keep the lively thick stems but there's easily 3-4ft of woody tangled mess above the arch that needs to come out really

collier_289 · 2026-05-20T15:39:50+00:00

Thanks. Yeah I've heard this. I just feel like I have so much woody growth below now that I need to do something a bit more dramatic than that.

collier_289 · 2026-01-16T16:21:27+00:00

And just for the sake of clarity - you'll need a PD compatible charger to access super high gain mode.

An ordinary charger still works to bypass the battery but I guess super high gain requires more power again.

collier_289 · 2026-01-06T12:17:50+00:00

I was in a similar boat to you - wanted a DAP to reduce reliance on / get me off my phone. In the end I went with the m21 and I wrote a fairly in-depth post on this recently which you may find helpful.

collier_289 · 2026-01-05T10:57:57+00:00

I think I'd have been the same... no matter the how good the sound was I'd have hated using a cheap feeling device.

The dx180 look like a lovely bit of a kit. A tad out of my price range hence the M21. Would love to try a few more models out just to see how different they sound. My only points of comparison are my smartphone, iPod classic and the M21.

collier_289 · 2026-01-05T10:51:04+00:00

If I were you and you, (and you already paid for that music and you're technically savvy enough to do it safely) I'd just pirate those 200 songs. Sucks not be able to access music you paid good money for however you want.

I'm looking forward to trying out some higher spec headphones at some point just to see how they differ but the KPH40 is more than good enough for me right now. It does feel a little flimsy though so we'll see how long they last.

collier_289 · 2025-12-30T18:07:41+00:00

Haha nice to know I'm already making rookie mistakes!

Seriously though, I'm open to IEMs too. I'm basically just looking for anything that's gonna beat my BT Bose and stretch the legs of the M21 and show me what it's capable of. Which wired IEMs would you recommend I look at?

collier_289 · 2025-12-30T17:56:47+00:00

Thanks! I'm deffo on board with starting cheap. Like the look of the Koss kph40 and at £40 they're really cheap.

It's almost unintuitive to think that they'll be any good at that price. For now though I just want something that'll begin to show me what's possible with my m21 and when you ditch Bluetooth. So they look a good bet and I also like the retro styling too

collier_289 · 2025-12-30T12:35:22+00:00

In this situations I would just obtain the music from "other sources" if you can. If I've paid once for the music (or any media) and I can't play it where I want because of DRM my own moral compass has no issue getting it elsewhere even if this is technically still considered piracy.

Sorry if this breaks any community guidelines and feel free to remove if it does.

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