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My first MacBook. My dad got it for me as a high school graduation gift. After years of heavy use, it still runs as smoothly as the day I unboxed it.

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My first mechanical watch. I hope to wear it until the day I am fully financially independent.

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My third desktop and dedicated gaming rig. Packing an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 at 4.6 GHz, 32 GB RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, and a 1 TB NVMe SSD. The entire build cost me under 800 euros — an absolute steal for the performance. Also the first machine I installed Linux on.

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My first "hi-fi related" headphone. A birthday gift from a middle-school friend when I was 14. It cost nearly 400 RMB — a generous gift for a 14-year-old teenager. We eventually lost touch.

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My current sim racing setup. A noticeable step up from the T300.

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Built right after graduating middle school. Just a few months later, GPU prices skyrocketed and my RX 5700 XT could have sold for 2.5 times what I paid. I never got the chance to buy a replacement card until after high school — still a bit of a regret. Now fitted with an RX 6700 GRE and serving my dad.

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Picked this up after trying the WF-1000XM5. I expected the sound quality to fall well short of Sony's, but it didn't. The seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem turned out to be genuinely impressive.

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My current monitor. A 32-inch 4K display with a 144Hz refresh rate. It also supports HDR. The performance is absolutely fantastic. However the brightness always goes down if I switch to PS5, I still haven't figured out why.

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My first VR headset. Primarily used for racing in Gran Turismo 7.

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My daily driver headphones. Since I started using it in early 2021, I have never once felt the urge to replace it.

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Honestly never loved its sound. People praised it for being neutral and monitor-like, but I always found it fatiguing after a short while. Still, it was my first open-back hi-fi headphone, and I was genuinely thrilled when the package arrived back in 2019.

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My first game console, and my gateway into the PlayStation ecosystem. I played through a ton of Sony first-party titles on it. The PS5 era barely has exclusives anymore, so this one still feels special.

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My second camera. I chose it for its hybrid photo/video capability, but in practice I never shot a single video with it. On paper its image quality doesn't match my previous Nikon D7100, but paired with two Sigma fast primes and decent autofocus, the real-world results are far better.

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My very first PC build at age 14 — entirely from second-hand bargain parts. It was my introduction to DIY hardware, and the build process was riddled with problems. I live-blogged the whole ordeal on 图拉丁吧; the thread might still be out there. This machine barely survived through the end of middle school.

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The stepless adjustment for both color temperature and brightness is genuinely great — so good that I bought a second one when I moved to the Netherlands

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Not really a fan of in-ear monitors, but if I had to pick one, this would be it. Mainly used with my game controller and PS VR2. The sound quality is honestly not bad at all.

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My first DAC/Amp combo. A solid entry point into desktop audio that served me well for years.

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A 21st birthday gift from my girlfriend Luna. To be honest, I barely reach for headphones anymore since getting these speakers.

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My first racing wheel. A great introduction to sim racing before I upgraded.

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Picked one up second-hand in the Netherlands to see what a premium ergonomic chair really feels like. It is, without question, more comfortable than anything I have sat in before. But for something priced well above its peers, you expect a revelation. Apple products sometimes deliver this way, but this chair doesn't quite do that. It is simply a relatively comfortable chair you can sit in a bit longer before getting tired, while the couch and bed still win.

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My first pair of true wireless earbuds. The noise cancellation truly did its job, and the sound quality is not bad. I never planned to replace it, however I left it on the flight when I first flew to the Netherlands.

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My first game controller — a 13th birthday gift from my uncle. I still remember booting up ICEY with it for the first time and feeling the rumble. That was something else.