The big picture: Sony built on the success of the Walkman with the Discman, a portable CD player that was equally as popular with the era's youth and helped popularize compact discs as an audio format ...

Sony has launched its first Walkman music player to support high-resolution 192kHz/24bit audio files, the Sony Walkman F886. Launched at IFA 2013, the Sony F886 is due to be released in October and ...

There are currently no ways to turn back time, but FiiO has since brought back renowned experiences of the past with its lineup of new retro technologies, now debuting the DM13, a modern CD player.

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, introducing both a new concept in music and a device that would become an icon of modern pop culture -- a personal, portable stereo.

Anyone around in the '80s will remember people walking around with giant boom boxes on their shoulders blasting music to everyone in a massive radius. But there was also a much more discrete way to ...

Ran into something interesting tonight while shopping at Kmart. They now have portable walkman style CD players that will do up to 84 hours of continuous playtime (pretty darned impressive in my book) ...

Fiio grabbed plenty of attention with its reboot of the classic portable cassette player earlier in 2024, so it’s no surprise to see that the company’s latest product is another blast from the past: ...

The term "Walkman" initially referred to a Sony brand of portable media players and personal audio systems debuted in 1979. The Walkman was groundbreaking at the time because it allowed users to ...

With all the furore over Sony's exploding batteries, much-delayed and expensive PS3, aggressive hunting-down of import favourite Lik-Sang.com, does this pretty boring portable CD player indicate that ...

The cassette-playing Walkman is no more after Sony decided to stop manufacturing the ground-breaking device in Japan after more than 30 years. The move comes just months after Sony scrapped production ...