Reviewers agree that the music on these headphones sounds fantastic. The Walkman uses earbuds rather than bone-conductor tech, and according to audiophileon.com, "The sound quality is brilliant ...

Sony’s boss, Akio Morita, ordered that the first Walkman include a second headset jack—so two could listen at once. But it turns out nobody wanted it.

Headphones had existed for well over 50 years by the time Sony’s Walkman debuted in 1979, but the portable cassette player helped popularize the technology by miniaturizing it. km5’s new ...

The Walkman was different. I had a ghetto blaster (Bar Mitzvah gift in 1983) from Panasonic that was huge. And very heavy. I made mixtapes with it. I used those tapes in my Sony Walkman (I had the ...

Headphones had existed for well over 50 years by the time Sony’s Walkman debuted in 1979, but the portable cassette player helped popularize the technology by miniaturizing it.

Late Walkman model featuring the "Mega Bass" branding, which was supposed to enhance low-end sound for cassettes and headphones of that era. The feature became a hallmark of Sony's Walkman line ...

In 1988 they released the WM-505, the first model with wireless headphones, over 12 years before the first Bluetooth headset. The Walkman featured prominently in Footloose; Marty McFly used it to ...

Unfortunately, high-end headphones these days often come with Bluetooth connectivity only, necessitating the use of clunky signal converters that ruin the tidy compactness of those portable players.

In 1984, Sony even released the WM-F5 – a Walkman model that came with a more rugged splashproof chassis and a pair of in-ear headphones (most other models came with on-ears), so you could use ...

But since the Sony Walkman put headphones on the map in 1979, the technology has both been hailed as a modern marvel and criticized as an antisocial danger.Whichever way you see it, judging by the ...

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