Bought this in 2016 in Nagoya Japan, excellent, unfortunately I'm not able to change the language menu to english, so probably missing out on its full set of features.

Excellent sound and if you only intend to listen to albums you know well, it's fine. However, there is no ability to rate tracks; no ability to track last played or play-counts; and the software is basic and has slow transfer speeds. I bought the Walkman to replace a broken iPod Classic and have subsequently bought a second-hand iPod to handle what the Walkman can't.

This has made listening to my music so much more enjoyable than my old iPod. The high resolution audio is great quality. I'm not an audio purist so I can't honestly say how much better the sound quality is than low-res audio but this sounds great to my ears. The noise cancelling works well - I used this on the train during my commute and I was really able to switch off from all the background noise. One of the things that I really love is the ability to be able to drag and drop from a PC rather than being tied to a piece of software. I also really like the fact that you can add WAV files as I like some of my music tracks to be completely uncompressed. The operation of the player is very intuitive and does not take long to figure out. You can create custom playlists and also 'bookmark' tracks to create an ad-hoc playlist on the fly.