Here's my vintage portable CD player
Here's my vintage portable CD player
It belonged to my father-in-law. I asked him how much he'd take for it. He said I could just have it. It was pretty dusty and the hinge was sticking. I put a little bit of lube on the hinge and lid arm. Now it pops open just fine. It takes 9 volts to drive this bad boy. This is from a time that CDs were genuinely cool, new, and exiting.
Manufactured April 1990. This thing is a full 2 years older than me.
I'm listening to Blue Weekend at the moment. Incredible album. Ellie Rowsell has a beautiful voice. Here's my favorite song from it played live.
Thank you for the interesting post, happy to see people participating in this community :)
I had this exact model when I was a kid. This takes me back.
I had CD players all through my youth, then iPods in my early adult years. I liked to run with music, but they all skipped if you jostled them around too much. I had to wait for smartphones to become a thing before I could listen to music on the go.
Really? That's cool as hell because I can find NO documentation about this model ever existing anywhere lol!
I had a Sony Walkman. I think it was this exact model
Sony D-EJ010 PSYC
I also daily drove CD players through my youth. My family never had the means to get me something like an iPod. I got my first cell phone in '09, when I was 17. It was a Motorola RAZR ve20. It featured such wild technologies as Micro USB and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It had an SD card slot and could play MP3s. I was probably one of eight people on the planet using a dumb phone as a music player lol But hey, it was way better than having to lug around what CDs I might feel like listening to on the school bus.
Portable was a bit of a misnomer. Even with anti-skip, it happens if you're too rough. If you're moving at all without anti-skip, eh, forget about it lol
I had a Sony Walkman.
I might be dating myself a bit, but when you say "Sony Walkman," I think of portable tape cassette players (what Starlord uses to listen to his '80s hits in the Guardians of the Galaxy films). They were the technology before CD players were a thing. I've never heard a CD player called a Walkman before. Like Starlord, I was a child of the '80s and started out with the old tape cassette players. And the Sony Walkman was the "iPod" of that generation; the most famous brand of tape cassette players.
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Damn that's slick
Thanks! This thing absolutely reeks of the 80s and I love it. It's kind of hilarious dropping music made 30+ years later in it.
howβs the sound? some of the early cd players had pretty amazing DAC circuits while cost was no object as they were the new high end toy.
I don't consider myself a true audiophile, but I think it sounds pretty fantastic. Snares, cymbals, and hi hats really sparkle. It's got a bunch of Sony chips on back. Make of that what you will.
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I'm using ATH-M50s, for reference.
and Lots Of Jumpers, heh
Beauty ... I like this because it keeps items that were built decades ago in good use.