Nostalgia: The Chronicles of the Walkman after 80s

In this age of digital music, there are fashionable young people with earplugs in their ears everywhere. I can’t help but feel that I have improved. The Walkman equipment has finally become popular. It’s finally the culture of the masses. After many years, I remember the taste of Dad's original SANYO's old tape drive. I also remember that the sixth grade of primary school was the joy of having the first tape player. In the low noise of that, I spent the time swaying. When I was in high school, a good friend in the class asked me to listen to a Sony old tape drive, only to be surprised that the Walkman was not only used to listen to the sound, but also how it sounded!

That was in 2001, I caught up with the peak of the Walkman culture, it was a glorious era, the tape is still the first choice for the poor, the excellent sound quality of the CD is also fascinating, and the rise of MD makes the exquisite people of B have Choice, and mp3 has also begun commercialization, it is really a hundred flowers, wonderful! There is a new Walkman in the bag, how many children's dreams, SONY this trademark is also an unacceptable totem! So in the three years of high school, I played with several playmates and represented the representative products of that brilliant era. The final glory of the tape drive--SONY EX2000. This machine was 1.3K that year, it was really a noble machine, and the ultra-thin tape drive saw a lot, but On the perfection of workmanship, the exquisite design, in addition to EX2000 probably only earlier EX9, but EX9 I have never played, it is hard to say anything, but this machine's remote control has LCD so that I was surprised that year, amazing Now the common two-way dial (a lot of innovative mp3 used so far) is used on the EX2000, and the dial is hidden under a square sliding slider, the slider is embedded in the fuselage, and the dial is highlighted. Body Hold, the wheel is hidden after the body is simple and refined

The portable CD player was quickly pressed down by mp3, but it was at that peak in that era, and the industrial design also showed a super thin and beautiful appearance. The sound quality also formed a unique charm and unquestionable excellence. It is for these reasons that a CD with lossless digital audio has undergone two rounds of crazy attacks by MD and mp3 before it can survive. The SONY of that era is still the EJ series, such as 995, 1000, etc. The second is a high school. The buddy started the EJ2000, the first cell design, the thickness of 13.7mm is now only NE20 beyond it, and later the NE series appeared, played NE9, NE1, etc., personally think that NE1 is the most beautiful, transparent cover with silver metal, a circle around Vaguely seeing the dishes, exquisite workmanship, although thicker, but actually better than EJ2000, EJ full range of sound effects only "no" "sound1" "sound2" and subwoofer and super bass selection, sound boring, but the bass In the interpretation of the E808, which was still the mainstay of the year, I was so poisonous that I had waited for a small rookie. Panasonic was already a CT series, and there were not many famous devices. 570 and 810 can be regarded as things of that era. I don’t need these two machines. More to say. When NE10, NE20, NE920, NE820; CT820, CT830, etc. appeared, it is not the era in which it should appear. Except for ne20, CT820 two flagships are a bit interesting, others are meaningless, out of this After a brilliant time, everyone knows that the future is definitely a mp3 one.

The civilian children can't afford to play. At that time, a regular R machine of the R series would cost more than 1K, not to mention buying a disc, buying a fiber optic cable, and you have to have a CD player with a fiber output. The N-series NetMD that just came out is a sky-high price. The NetMD that supports USB is simply a dream artifact of the poor children at the time. So I never really played the MD machine in high school. It is a pity that I played the Walkman in that era. I was so impressed by the passing of the MD. So there has always been a mourning, a wish that is hard to erase, how much I want to look at the square metal, gently on the body of the delicate art. Push the button, listen to the "jingle" ring, and enjoy the sense of accomplishment that puts in the MD disc. Later, at An Da, I received an N710 on Anqing, so I have played and enjoyed the breath of that age. That exquisite mechanical and electronic art, no need to put in the disc, I feel back to four or five years ago.

Later, the rise of mp3, needless to say too much, everyone knows what is going on. It allows almost every child on campus to have a soundable Walkman, but the emergence of Baidu makes this CD, MD, mp3, etc. The balance is no longer balanced, MD and CD are quickly exiting the market, and the research and development of new products is cancelled. Even the later Hi-MD has no effect, leading to civilians in this field. It is not that civilians are not good, but look at this. I don’t have any interest in playing with the shoddy equipment. I know that an era is over. The manufacturers do not care hard to do it with the sound of the artist, no longer use the same vision of the artist to pick up the bit by bit. The equipment of the age, whatever a thing is better than the digital walkman of 03-04, the sound quality has never been able to talk about it. At that time, the old players of the Walkman complained that the friends who were paying attention should know.

In the dark time after the glorious past, I vaguely remember to go around in order to buy a genuine CD, but also vaguely remember to find a good appliance repair shop in order to repair a MDR E848, more vaguely remember to see the surprise of SB when they saw mp3. Stupid: "Wow, how can it put songs without tape??...". At that time, a Patriot's moonlight box actually sold to 1300, which is the kind of big peanut type, 64m, simply... Auntie Niang: "Is the designer who died, the artist who is demanding craftsmanship and industrial design dying?" But this is a commercial world after all, and the dark age of the sound has just entered, the old player’s screaming spit The star is still collapsing. The Koreans saw this opportunity and saw the old players’ desire for quality in the new era of new technology. So Samsung took a step forward and launched the Yepp series mp3, which exquisite workmanship, creative design and sound quality. It’s also remarkable, but when designing high-quality boutiques, it’s still inherited from the previous Japanese

The design style of the manufacturer, such as wire control, chewing gum battery, etc., in fact, the old players can see this at a glance, for example, YP-700 is a typical example. Samsung has done two reasons, the first is this The design of the flash media player is not familiar, so the cost is low and the risk is low. The second is that the design is like the old players. But the high price makes Samsung unable to try it.

The creation of the wonderful era of mp3 is actually iRiver's Ifp-180TC. The design of the Iron Triangle and Sennheiser join us to let everyone know that mp3 can also be so wonderful. Sennheiser also relies on such a wave of enthusiasm for the people. I am familiar with it. It is also from that era that old players are also awakened from the sound quality dreams created by Japanese manufacturers. At least I was so surprised that Germans and Americans could create hundreds of thousands of earplugs, Japanese voices. In front of him, he broke into the army. Later he met MPIO, iAudio and other Korean mp3s. For a time, the mp3 made by Korean sticks became synonymous with quality. Zixonx and others should be the same, and witnessed the history of this mp3 growth. That is to say, mp3 really found its own position, fostered strengths and circumvented weaknesses, and created its own style of moments, and achieved iRiver fans such as zixonx. I also like iriver, YY over 180, 380, 580, and later used 890, T10, etc., and felt the youthful atmosphere. And iriver is determined to enterprising spirit. Later, the rise of ipod has been more helpful. Let the culture of Walkman completely out of the dark era and welcome the arrival of a new era.

And the traditional Japanese manufacturers like Sony (exactly only Sony, other Japanese brands are basically rebellious, follow the trend), in the tide of the rise of mp3, but the opposite, the main push Hi-MD, this stuff is playing The old players who have passed MD are indeed irresistible temptations. Therefore, in the era of mp3 rise, when mp3 finally counterattacks, Sony’s active attack is actually a barely undefeated defensive operation, which restores the hearts of some traditional players. It also saved some Sony music profits. But with Baidu's soft support and Korean and ipod offensive, Sony finally announced this year that MD's full-line R&D has stopped. The mp3 won the final victory. Sony's mp3, when Sony Finally, regardless of the face in the ipod and the stick behind the ass, the old player's compassionate heart once again favored Sony, when seeing Sony's subtle industrial design and good sound quality appeared again on mp3, everyone Can not help but praise the power of its technology, the basics of solidity ... However, Sonicstage this git software highlights the Sony git or the same year that Sony, it has not changed.

Time flies, the glory days I have not experienced and the glory days I have experienced forever are always yearning for me. I vaguely remember the feeling of wire control on the straps of my shoulder bags. I remember the Philips HS ear hooks and 808, 848 used in the past. At the time of self-study, everyone’s desk table was filled with a flannel bag with the word "walkman". It was happy and simple. The era of glory passed, and the distrust of mp3 and the wait-and-see attitude of the future also made me remember, and then The iriver was born, feeling the shock and joy brought by the progress of the times, and step by step to the pace of the times to come to today. Looking at the bed from their own era of netMD, CD, speechless.