I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    It’s an absolute battery hog, so I don’t use it as often as I want to, but I got an old 90s Sony Discman some time last year. It came with some amazing 90s over the head in ear wited Sony headphones that works real good as well.

    Just looked at the Discman and it was manufactured in '92 in Japan, model D-111, and I think it’s real cool. I also checked the headphones and they’re MDR-W08 in-ear headphones. Absolutely love both of them together, despite the fact the CD player is the biggest battery hog I’ve ever seen.

    Hell, I got a CD for a game that came out a few years back and my Discman can handle it perfectly okay. I would have expected something to change in audio file formats that would have made this harder to do, so that is really cool K can play it so easily.

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      There’s a reason people still use “CD-quality audio” to describe high fidelity music playback, it’s still the benchmark, and I feel like we are still trying to achieve it again after being lost in the woods of MP3 compression and Bluetooth earphones for the last 20 years.