Sony D-50 vs Technics SL-XP7 from 1985. I don't remember this battle, Sony would have been king in my town just from it's legacy and being a leader in CD. I've found a ton of articles comparing these two and I used to read our paper a lot but I was still on the sidelines. At the time I do remember CD's were $20 USD and they were mostly classical or super-popular music, they hadn't gotten to the stuff I loved yet.
The Sony D-88 from 1988, The Straits Times. For the young members, Jordache was a clothing company, mostly jeans, and they were mildly popular, mostly with females. Back in the old days the brand tag or back pocket stitching was important to show how cool you were. Jeans came back en vogue around 13 years ago with similar branding/stitching but the original trend was started in the late 70's.
It sounds like Sony didn't like National/Panasonics really small CD Player, which one is it? From 1985, The Straits Times.
The National Player must be the Technics SL-XP7 Player from 1986, from The Straits Times 1986, the Sanyo CP-10
Talking about a great variety of Walkmans.. On YouTube I just discovered the Sony Design Classic videos. Part 1: Part 2: , 1:19 is when I took the screenshot Part 3:
I was looking up stuff for the Walkman Designer Thread and saw that Andy Warhol did a Walkman Painting, sweet!
Cool! Andy is also featured in the documentary I linked above your posts, where he is attending a dinner without taking the headphones off. Part 3 around the 6 minute mark. Btw, in part 1, 2 minutes in, you can see a brand new 700 series Walkman on a conveyor belt in the factory. Is it an F701C? Seems to match photos from the 701C article on Walkman Archive.
In Dutch Intro paragraph The smallest player at the time of the article (June 1985) and more than half a kilogram? [Note: it does not say including batteries, so might have been a lot heavier in day to day use] 6mm larger than the diameter of a CD (12cm), and even smaller than 3 CD cases stacked on top. 2nd paragraph Amazing is that portability is presented as a key feature: rechargeable battery in a bag. Last paragraph: it features a headphone jack and, icing on the cake, with volume control!
Compared to the 7.6Kg Mains only Sony CDP101 from just three years earlier it was a remarkable achievement.
Understood @Longman , but the CDP101 was not a portable CD player. For an apples-to-apples comparison, lets put it next to the Sony D-5 / D-50 from 1984: 127.5 x 42 x 133mm with a weight of 590g. It takes 6 C cells, so with batteries it will be quite a bit heavier. Specs from: https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/sony/d-5.shtml So the Technics from 1985 was a smaller, but only marginally lighter by 70g.
