This new music player is like a hi-res iPod nano, but with microSD storage — and you won’t believe how cheap it is

Fiio has become our favorite budget audiophile brand, thanks to products like the Fiio FT13 headphones, the Fiio BTR17 DAC/amp, and the Fiio JM21 music player.

It's the last one that's most relevant here, because Fiio's sub-brand Snowsky has just unveiled a new super-cheap hi-res music player that looks like a cross between an iPod nano 6th gen and a MiniDisc player, and costs just $80 / £80.

It's called the Snowsky Disc, appropriately enough, and while Snowsky's info calls it a "CD inspired" design – and I can see it – it's the resemblance to other bygone music players that got TechRadar's audio team talking. My colleague Becky Scarrott immediately recalled her much-beloved Sony Network Walkman MP3 player, which came in almost the same shade of pink.