Comments on: Walk, man.

By: Zeno

Zeno — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:02:03 +0000

Even though Sony is abandoning production of the Walkman I'm certain that there will still be a few off-brand manufacturers kicking them out for a couple of years. The last time I remember seeing a portable cassette player for sale available anywhere was at a Walgreens. It was this hideously cheap looking thing with Play and FF only, no radio, priced at $5. I found it amusing that, brand new, the player conceivably costs less than the media (assuming one could find a new cassette for sale somewhere).

By: Mom

Mom — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:32:50 +0000

As a big fan of audio books, I’ve still used a cassette player until the past couple of years because so many books (I used the library for a lot of mine) were still only available on cassette. Thank goodness that’s changed so I can go DVD now. I should be doing the mp3, but technologically as I get older they have to drag me along slowly.

By: Elfin Slade

Elfin Slade — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:45:25 +0000

I’ve never used mobile CD players at all. It’s just a wrong technology for slamming over potholes and rail crossings on a highway, or jumping a mountain bike 3 feet high. Just as I planned in my adolescence I went from cassettes to solid state. My minivan has a tape player that i use with a cassette adapter and a solid-state music player. I updated all 6 speakers myself – sound is awesome.

By: ladyjaye

ladyjaye — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:05:00 +0000

Even though we’ve had CDs at home since early 1986 (first album bought by my parents: Brothers in Arms, by Dire Straits), when it came to portable players I almost switched directly from cassette walkmen to MP3 players. Got a CD-only discman (a Sony) for Christmas 2002. Spring 2003, bought a Creative discman that also played MP3 on CDs. Hated it so much (its buffer was abyssmal) that 6 months later, I bought my first iPod and haven’t looked back since.

So, basically, I spent approx. 15 years using a cassette walkman (many models through the years, although I was particularly fond of the Panasonic ones), only one year with discmen and 7 (so far) with MP3 players.

And to this, I tip my hat to the cassette walkman, for all the years spent listening to audio tapes from beginning to end, when nowadays I tend to prefer the shuffle on my iPod…