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If you think you've been hearing full-quality audio from your portable CD player...I have some bad news for you. Featured music: "Grow Up" by Gloria Tells Sources: Sony D-150 photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/34019036@N05/4934600814 Sony D-515 photos: https://hifi-wiki.com/index.php/File:Sony_D-515-1992.jpg https://www.reddit.com/r/walkman/comments/1g1e21i/restoring_a_sony_d515/ https://marlene-d.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-comparisons-between-hifi-components.html "Sony Scoops the Competition," The Edmonton Journal, May 21, 1992. Philips AZ-6847 photo: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/2-cd-philips-az-6847-i5154061201.html "CD Portables: The Beethoven Test," Stereo Review, July 1992. Circuit City TV commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvukTApM_k Obsolete Sony newsletter about ESP: https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/how-sony-solved-the-discmans-biggest L.A. Trade advertisement, PC Magazine, April 28, 1992. Bell Labs aerial photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel,_The_Oval2.png "Adaptive Quantization in Differential PCM Coding of Speech, The Bell System Technical Journal, September 1973, pp. 1105-1106 "No Skipping," Popular Science, June 2000. "The Billboard Bulletin," June 27, 1992. Sanyo CDP-370 photo: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267039540974 Philips AZ-7566 photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/177201644095 Blue Panasonic SL-S270 photo: https://static.mercdn.net/item/detail/orig/photos/m24760643118_1.jpg?1745150915 Halo and devil horns in thumbnail image: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/devil-horns-angel-halo_13405584.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
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