Dedicated to Headphones and Earphones
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I can still remember it. Circuit City’s portable electronics section had a shoulder-height wall facing the door. It was one of the first things you saw when entering. Huge 36″ TVs on one side (left or right, depending on the store), and a display of CD players arranged on angled shelves on the other. Cheap Koss and no-name models at the bottom, some lacking any anti-skip memory, and the top-of-the-line Sonys and Panasonics at eye level. But then, on one side, there were these weird square devices that were too small to fit a CD. Too small even to fit a cassette. And they were expensive. There was a Sharp for $300 (that’s in 1990s USD) and a Sony for even more. But wait—was that a record button?
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It’s 2023 and I just bought a Walkman. A few weeks ago I laid out the challenges to listening to music while traveling internationally. Generally, and for most people, their phones will suffice. For a very small niche, there are a few issues with that. Namely, not having access to music without a data connection if you don’t want to take up space on your phone. Enter portable media players, which were once colloquially called “iPods.”
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