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Collectors Snap Up Early MP3 Players

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the everything-old-made-new-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like vintage MP3 portables are the hot new collectible for old radio connoisseurs. On the cover of this month's edition of Antique Radio Magazine is Sony's first DAP, the Vaio Music Clip. The cover article is the second part of a series showcasing the first players by Sony, RCA, I2Go, and Intel (remember the Pocket Concert?). Part one, which was published in the December 2004 edition, covers the first flash unit the Eiger Labs MPMan F10 (the Rio PMP300 was second), and the first hard drive player the Personal Jukebox PJB-100. CNET also wrote about these first players last January, offering more details on the MPMan and the PJB-100"

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  1. MPTrip CD MP3 Player - January 2000!! by BenJeremy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think I've got you all beat.

    I bought my MPTrip CD/MP3 Player back in January of 2000... Went well with my Apex AD-600 (1998) and the collection of MP3s I started in 1997 (compressed my 400+ Audio CD collection).

  2. Ahhh... inconvenience by jfengel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is this going to be one of those things where audiophiles insist that old, hard-to-get, inconvenient media sound "warmer", "richer", and "fuller"? Like with the vinyl records and vacuum-tube amplifiers?

    I keep waiting for somebody to insist that you haven't really heard Nelly until you've heard him on wax disc. Yeah, the click when the needle goes past the seam is kind of annoying, but the sound is harmonically vibrant and more natural.

  3. Re:Collectors or memoribilia? hahahahhahahahhahaha by judowillreturns · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Goddamn I loved my Pocket Concert.

    *SLAM* *SLAM* *SLAM*

    "Hey look, even after I slammed it against the wall it's still playing, skip free!"
    "Wow!"

    My abuse actually broke the thing a few times, nothing some blu-tack and a soldering iron didn't fix. Ahhh... the heady days of user-serviceable consumer electronics!

    Crap, I only just sold it after the volume control stopped working; I could have been rich!