Bye Bye walkman.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:21 pm

I've been using a walkman for years now. A very rought and tumble panasonic shockwave walkman that could likely survive a nuclear blast. It's got pretty good sound but the biggest drawback to the walkman is the cassette tape itself. The cassette is more "road durable" than a CD (although the CD is more "play durable" than the cassette) which is why I've never bought a discman (okay, I know technically only Sony products are Walkmans and Discmans, but the reality is everyone calls them that no matter what they are). The problem with cassettes is they're rather bulky to carry around.

Portable MP3 players fixed that problem but the media cards they use are expensive and don't hold all that much. The real plus is with no moving parts they have a very long battery life and the units themselves are very small. Then there's the CD-based portable MP3 player. You get lots of cheap, storage (blank CDs giving you 800 meg for less than a dollar) and a longer battery life than a regular CD player. The downside is they were $600 cnd when they first came out.

Well my wife wanted a portable CD player to listen to at work and I knew that they had come down to around $30-$50 so I went to buy her one. I didn't realize that the ones that play MP3s have also come down to $80. Hot diggity. Bought one for her and one for me.

Of course I'm still in the middle of burning my CD collection as MP3s, but now I'll have to make some special disks full of MP3s to listen to while out and about. I'll be able to cheaply and easily take a whole day's worth of music out with me now.

Aint technology grand?

Belinda · Post by **Belinda** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 10:34 am

Gotta love it. I want an mp3 player, but can never justify the cost. I would probably listen to them while on the bus or something, but that's about it.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 11:20 am

They must have them even cheaper than the $80 one I bought down in the states. That was $80 Canadian... that's like what? $12.45 US?

The only thing that sucked about this MP3 player is it didn't come with any sort of belt clip or pouch or anything, and the headphones are pure crap. But I'll just use the nice headphones from my walkman on it.

Happypeepeehead · Post by **Happypeepeehead** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:45 am

I do believe some prices for MP3 players must be going down because I have a virtually destitute friend walking around with a four hour capacity MP3 player. However, there's this one children's song about the values of bathing on it and it's driving him nuts that he can't delete it (He's a gothy industrial punk queen. Har!)

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:59 am

The headphones on this one are really crappy. They practically make your ears bleed on some songs because it's all high end and no bass.

Still, nothing like having a CD of several hours worth of music on the go.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 12:35 pm

Woohoo! Found my good headphones. Aaaahhhh.. so much more soothing.