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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...