according to Master Gu (kaosuncd.com) this is the Best Discman ever made by Sony! Too bad I could not confirm this because mine had too many troubles and got burned (along with my house) while I was collecting all the necessary parts for its restoration...
Here you go Jorge, it took a while but I found your Denon https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Audio/90s/Audio-1991-02.pdf
Sony MD and Philip's DCC go head to head, the DCC was under a lot of scrutiny in the USA because of it's recording ability, we never had much consumer exposure to it. Here's the full magazine if you want to read the entire article. https://www.americanradiohistory.co...0s/everyday-practical-electronics-1993-01.pdf
The Walkman Pro, designed by Hartmut Esslinger, designer of the original Walkman https://www.behance.net/hartmutesslinger
More stuff from Frog Design https://www.manager-magazin.de/fina...ton-ueber-das-iphone-und-design-a-921423.html
Maybe he's a member? https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/chr...rera-s-cabriolet-hartmut-esslinger-13171.html Although Esslinger likes to display his Porsche 911 behind a glass garage door, he prefers to keep selected pieces out of sight from visitors—the Swabian understatement of an adoptive Californian. These pieces are kept hidden away in his bedroom upstairs. In austere showcases, like museum exhibits, stands a collection of Sony Discmans and Walkmans, two jet-black NeXT computers designed for Steve Jobs, and a Baby Mac designed for Apple in 1985—a prototype that never saw the light of day. The industrial designer, who as a boy dreamt of a career as a vehicle designer, has owned dozens of vehicles and driven sports cars from every major brand. But for Esslinger, nothing equals the design and driving pleasure of a Porsche 911. He bought his first one—silver with a blue roof—in 1983, and has remained an avowed 911 fan ever since.
Who made the TEAC Partner PC-7RX Personal Portable Cassette Player? It looks like a few others but it looks really good in this photo, the case is outstanding. From Electronics Australia June 1983.
The Sound Burger from 1983, Electronics Australia comparing it to the Wondergram, if you are unfamiliar with that unit check out Techmoan's Video, he does most of these cool odd-ball players.
Here's an interesting article from Billboard Magazine December 1st, 1984 talking about retailers stocking personal cassette players, it sounds like have a small amount of players was fairly normal and that Sony's were very expensive, which is what I remember. I usually had something like the $69 Toshiba and was always in awe of the Sony's and AIWA's but rarely saw one.
Looking at it I suspect the player is a Clamshell design. Since the sides are open you would need something like that part to protect the heads and spindles when there wasn't a tape in it. Definitely something to lose though.
That makes sense, it looks like there's nothing in it but you could put a radio in there if you needed the space.
Designed by Joerg Ratzlaff in 1984 for frog design , very innovating and pleasing to the eye design , actually a compact cassette peg.
I like it alot, much more pleasing than an egg boombox. Frog Design was on top of it, they were cranking out some really cool product designs back then, I still find classic items that were traced back to them. Machaneus, what's the story with the Walkman/radio above it? I don't think that went into production.
