Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models

Post by trencedamp » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #134

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I've bought several of these and they don't last. You're right that they are commodity items. The components and quality are shit, there's no support, and six months later the company has vanished. I guess I just want somewhere between $30 and $500, somewhere between absolutely piece of shit and extreme prestige. But I'm dreaming if I think anyone is going to serve that market

Doesn't Fiio and the like make a bunch of fairly affordable stuff ? Definitely well under 500$

Post by trencedamp » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

ndiddy wrote: post #188

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That would be "some sort of enthusiast audiophile flac player thing that costs way too much" The entry level Walkman is $400 and only has 32gb internal storage. It's all about flac and hires audio but you're paying through the nose for the brand

In 2005 the iPod with 30 GB of storage was $299 ($511 in today's dollars) so the entry level Walkman is actually fairly comparable to Apple's pricing from back then. You can use some of the $100 you're saving to buy a 256 GB MicroSD card to load more music onto.

Post by tonyhart7 » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

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capitalism is the most efficient system ever the statistic literally says it all, any person that think otherwise its delusional

Take a breath, you’re having a total knee-jerk reaction. What statistic? So out of thousands of years of human history, we somehow stumbled onto the absolute final, perfect economic system 250 years ago with zero room for upgrade? Makes total sense /s. I’m sure there were those who said feudalism/mercantilism were the most efficient systems ever and we don’t need capitalism. Even Marx was a fan of capitalism, he view…

Post by Giefo6ah » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

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Post by psd1 » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 9:52 AM UTC

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Is it, though? Rule of thumb: when a fanboy asserts that any person holding an alternative view is defective, you should immediately abandon the fanboy's position and adopt the alternative view. It's heuristically more likely to be correct, and it gets you out of an odious fan club. Case in point: China proceeded through stages of development more efficiently than any western nation. Case in point: South Korea incuba…

Throw the USSR in there as well. Central planning allowed them to leap from an agrarian society to launching Sputnik and putting the first human in space, which spooked us into kickstarting the space race. It wasn’t market incentives that did that.