In fact, I am not so great. I want to make such a long article when I open my head. In fact, this is just a by-product of a small activity.
I just haven't seen this history of being completely connected by the Walkman. It seems that it is not bad to share it with everyone! Walkman representative product overview -
Introduction to the Walkman starting point:
The Walkman refers to a portable pocket player and is a type of electronic product. Invented by the German Andreas Pavel in 1972, he applied for a patent in 1977, but he had been indicted by Sony in Japan for many years and was frozen by Sony. After that, Sony agreed to pay the money to Andreas Pavel. The vocabulary was originally from a brand of Sony, Japan, and the Chinese name was changed from "Walkman". The Walkman originally only had radio, tape playback or recording functions. Because of its small size, it can be hung around the waist when carrying it, which is more popular among young people.
1. SONY TCM-150
This thing is the beginning of portable music playback.....Before everyone used to listen to music with vinyl records, and later the tape has a relatively small size, and it can also be used outside the function of the radio. Play can be made possible!
Sony TCM-150
PS This is actually not a famous machine, just to find it as an example (although this one is also a good seller)...Sony is also the leader of the Walkman, so I will find their card. The player is ~
2, AIWA XP-7
The XP-7 produced in 1992 is the leading model of the AIWA CD player. It features a 1 BIT dual digital-to-analog converter and up to 8x oversampling digital filters to ensure the reproduction of high-quality music.
AIWA XP-7 CD Walkman
The host has a heat-resistant design, 30-minute fast charging, 2-band DSL dynamic ultra-linear bass system, 24 music programming playback, 1 song / all / AB interval repeat playback, random playback, battery power check display (LCD) and other functions, in At that time, the optical output of the square port was already equipped. The included accessories are also very rich: there is a card remote control, which can perform 10 key direct playback; the earplug of the connection controller is gold bar V14; PB-50 lead acid rechargeable battery; battery stand with 2 5th battery; model is 9V power supply for AC-A98.
The upper cover design of the mainframe is very distinctive, and the edge is transparent. The disc can be clearly seen when playing. The most interesting thing is that when using the power supply, the edge of the transparent cover has a red backlight, which is very beautiful. At the same time, the LCD screen also has an orange backlight. The sound quality of the XP-7 is very warm, and the DSL bass gives a very shocking feeling. The low-frequency volume is extremely strong and extremely fierce. It is perfect for listening to pop and rock!
In the portable card-type PLAYER, in response to the digital storage method - the rise of the CD (the tape and the vinyl record is a simulation), the card-type PLAYER naturally began to transform, becoming the "CD Player" with the portable.
I want to be the leader of the portable CD player in AIWA that year! Not at all SONY... Unfortunately, this brand has gradually disappeared.
3. SONY MZ-1
In May 1991, a new audio specification MD (MiniDisc mini disc) was announced. The disc is custom-made to a diameter of 6.4 cm and can be recorded for 74 minutes (equivalent to a CD) with an area of ​​only a quarter of the CD. For portability, the disc is packaged in a plastic housing. At the same time, ATRAC digital audio compression technology was born. In this regard, Sony began to promote MD technology in Japan and the United States, in order to allow the industry to accept the MD standard, the big Sony launched the MD forum, and carried out various demonstration activities, and issued relevant technology licenses to influential industry players, a huge momentum A new digital music revolution has begun.
In 1992, Sony first produced a new Walkman that is similar in size to a cassette Walkman but uses a digital storage medium that can be overwritten and erased – the MiniDisc Walkman. In November 1992, MZ-1 (recording and playback), MZ-2P (single release), MD recording disc MDW-60 and 88 SEM released MD records were put on the shelves; in December of the same year, sales in Europe and America also started smoothly. It is. "Now, you can make your own disc!" - MZ-1's promotional ads spread throughout the world.
Promotional poster of Sony MZ-1
The MD thing, it became a complete transition product, with the essence of numbers, but with some CD features. It appeared in 1992 and was only quite popular from 1995 to 1996.
However, the development of science and technology is very rapid. By the year 2000, MP3 appeared!
In terms of convenience, MP3 really has to be far better than MD. However, the sound quality is indeed inferior, even if the iriver H320, kenwood D9, iaudio X5L, these ancient hard disk MP3 gods, in terms of sound quality, compared with MD does not have much advantage. Even if the sound quality can be leveled, but the high price... As a result, the users of MD have finally become a niche market, and most of them are used by audiophiles.
Sony MZ-E3 Walkman - MD discs are put in like this
MZ-1 is the first recordable MD, plus MD technology is also SONY boot, which is the MD choice I put into the picture.
(PS about hard disk MP3 and PMP, I will put it together at the end to present it in a supplemental form)
4, Iriver T30
(Flash MP3) Introduction - Introduction to Flash Memory first:
The English name of the flash memory is "Flash Memory", generally referred to as "Flash", which is also a kind of memory. However, the physical properties of flash memory are fundamentally different from common memory. At present, all kinds of DDR, SDRAM or RDRAM are volatile memory. As long as the data in the current supply memory is stopped, it cannot be maintained. Therefore, each time the computer is turned on, the data needs to be reloaded into the memory; the flash memory is a Non-Volatile memory can retain data for a long time without current supply, and its storage characteristics are equivalent to hard disks.
The flash memory was invented by Dr. Shiokaoka Hiroshi in 1984 when he worked at Toshiba. According to Toshiba, the "Flash" of flash memory was recommended by a colleague of Dr. Sakaoka. Because the erase process of this memory reminds him of the camera's flash. Dr. Sakaoka published the invention at the 1984 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, California.
After the hard disk MP3, MP3s using flash memory (known as flash memory in China) began to slowly show up in the general mass consumer market.
In terms of unit cost, flash memory is better than hard disk (from the beginning of 2000 to the present, and the future should be). But as mentioned earlier - the hard disk is quite shocking, and with a slightly larger size, the storage medium that is carried around is not the perfect solution. The very important advantage of flash memory compared to the hard disk is "not afraid of vibration", "body is active and small"! As a 3C product that needs to be carried around, this is obviously a better choice.
However, at that time, because of the technical relationship, the relative cost was higher than that of the hard disk, so it was not until the millennium that it was slowly seen by the public. 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB..... The capacity that is so small that it is simply not enough at all is the most popular at that time. (I was very impressed! At that time, the 128MB MP3 didn't have 3000, so don't even want to own the miscellaneous cards... And those big brands are starting from the price of seven or eight thousand.....Orz)
Iriver T30 Walkman
Why did I choose the Iriver T30?
In fact, at that time, the MP3 player industry, Transcend has not yet entered this market, let alone the human factors, the square toast these small brands ..... So completely complete is the world of Japanese and Korean products. Kenwood (day, Taiwan is not high visibility), iaudio (han), iriver (han), mpio (han, fell), Sony (day), etc., are all the time of the time.
Iriver, it can be said that the visibility and evaluation were quite high at the time. (In fact, iaudio is an MP3 with a iriver engineer who has a more aggressive offensive against MP3 after the gun has been fired.) They are more famous for their T-series in the shape of a triangular space shuttle. (Of course, the IFP series, which is still known for its sound quality, is also important... But I personally feel that there is no special innovation in the appearance of this series)
Therefore, T30 was put into me as a representative of flash MP3!
5, iPod nano
At the end of August 2005, Samsung cut its 4G flash memory price by 50%. At this time, many people began to speculate whether Apple would launch a large-capacity version of Shuffle? But the lack of "Shuffle" in many ways makes this guess not much convincing. More people speculate that Apple will introduce a flash memory version of the iPod mini. This speculation is correct, but no one expected the true face of the nano.
Time went back to the Apple Special Event on September 7th, and when Jabes pulled out the latest version of iPod nano from his pocket, the audience was amazed. With the latest slogan of "iPod songs in your pocket. Impossible small." by Jabes, the iPod will soon subvert the MP3 player's overall industry chain. In the future, iPod nano will become the basic model of MP3 players. And the United States has become the basic feature of the next generation of consumer electronics.
iPod nano
In the evolution of the Walkman, the iPod is definitely the most important and most unforgettable part!
At that time, the flash MP3, even though it has a small size, is also a combination of a long strip + OLED two-color screen. And the fact is: At that time, the Walkman with "micro hard disk" as a storage medium still accounted for a large proportion (such as Iriver H10, CREATIVE Zen MicroPhoto, etc.), even though this is obviously not the best solution. The life of the hard disk is not too long, and it is quite afraid of vibration. Being a portable storage medium is not a perfect solution, but the flash memory price at that time is still high.
Shortly after the sharp price cuts in flash memory, Apple introduced the iPod nano. And iPod nano, changed everything!
In a volume that is only a little thicker than paper, and the size of a biscuit is large, a large number of songs can be placed, plus a 1.5' color screen and a traditional runner design, which greatly enhances the consumer experience. Coupled with the price that was not particularly expensive at the time MP3 (2GB model, priced at $199, 4GB model, priced at $249), it directly triggered a revolution.
In this revolution, the status of the iPod as the MP3 king was completely determined. And some of the traditional MP3 manufacturers at that time were all overwhelmed, and none of them survived.
In fact, Iriver, once the world's top three MP3 companies, was hit by the iPod in this revolution. Even though he had tried to cooperate with Microsoft (I don't know how many people noticed that Bill Gates had publicity with H10...and H10 can be synchronized with X-BOX), but still can't recover. After the decline, I finally had to announce that I would no longer use MP3 as a sales focus to transform into a 3C entertainment company.
iPod, you can worship it, you can hate it, but you must not ignore it!
6, Iriver Spinn
Iriver Spinn has won three consecutive awards since its launch, including Japan Good Design 2008 (G-Mark) excellent MP4 product design and GUI single item evaluation; 2009 US CES Exhibition Technology Innovation Award; 2009 Germany Red Dot (Reddot) Product Design Award .
Iriver Spinn features a unique GUI/UI interface, an orange indicator line and white text that looks very retro. Spinn player 3.3-inch AMOLED display with video playback, picture browsing, music playback, FM FM reception, Bluetooth and other functions, Spinn's innovative operating system is also eye-catching, rotating roller, vibration feedback and touch screen point selection technology The combination of three innovations and a simple retro GUI interface has greatly increased the flexibility of user operations, and the response speed of processing audiovisual files has increased a lot.
Iriver Spinn
After the MP3 with the screen music such as iPod nano, the Walkman that can play the movie began to rise!
In fact, MP4 was originally "MPEG-4", which is an abbreviation of film compression method, but under the hype of manufacturers, MP4 is inexplicably become synonymous with "MP3 player that can play movies".
Generally speaking, this type of MP4 screen will not be very large. It is still mainly portable and music based on 1.5~3 å‹. Most of the playback videos need to be converted by file conversion program, which is only a kind of attached function. . - This is a compromise between portability and vision.
And this Iriver Spinn is a very sincere work after they have transformed into a 3C big factory for entertainment consumption. It is not too much for me to say that it is ZTE!
Not only did the AMOLED screen be used, but also the touch screen with the scroll wheel operation that was not common at the time, and even the vibration feedback and Bluetooth that were only seen on the mobile phone at that time, plus the simple and elegant appearance, enough The music support format, as an MP4, is not only competent, but also quite beautiful, even if it is just MP4, it can also make people feel the high-quality boutique beauty, no wonder you can get up to three authoritative awards!
Therefore, I was taken as a representative of MP4 and placed in the picture.
Small OS: Although it has been discontinued for a long time, I really want to get one to collect it... I used to go to the computer show to see the real machine, really super beautiful~
7-1, COLORFLY C4
The Colorful C4 is the first HiFi-class player from Colorful, and the first portable audio player that supports 24-bit/192KHz sample rate playback and less than 5ps jitter. This product has received a lot of attention from music enthusiasts since its release. With the continuous exposure of design details, Pocket's attention has gradually increased.
Colorful C4 player
MP4 has developed to this point, it has been finalized, and entered a dead end. So in response to market demand, the latter is divided into two directions:
First, the portable flash memory player with the sound quality as the main orientation is commonly known as the "brick machine".
Why is the brick machine? Because it is huge (the internals are all high-end audio components & circuits, so small size), only enough UI (allowing you to browse songs is enough) and generally shorter endurance (to know the audio components) Very embarrassed), so got this name.
The brick machine discards the cost of the screen, and every penny is done in the sound quality, which is a kind of "reverse".
7-2, Aino V6000HD Series
Introduction to MP5: Since there is something that is based on sound quality, it is of course a product with visual experience as the main highlight! ——MP5
Where did this name come from? The old saying goes, the manufacturer is speculating. Obviously, it is a different type of product than MP4, but the larger screen makes it an evolutionary version of MP4, just like "MP3+1=MP4", so it becomes very brainless and becomes "MP4+". 1=MP5 â€.....
Compared with MP4, the size of MP5 is much larger, but the volume of everything is only for configuring a huge screen. The general mainstream is 4.3'~5'. Of course, 6'~7' is also there, but not too much, for no reason, because 5' is the limit that can just be put into the pocket.
It is completely different from the brick machine. The sound quality of this kind of product can only be said to be usable. It is even too weak to say it.
In terms of function, they are not necessarily better than MP4. MP5 can do it, MP4 is also mostly done! However, their biggest feature is mainly concentrated on the extremely powerful video playback capabilities.
Aino V6000HD
The biggest advantage of MP5 is: more than 90% of the videos, from AVI to MKV, from 240P to 720P (now many can support 1080P), you don't have to use the file, just throw it in and you can play it! In the era of MP4, this is something that you can't even think about. (MP4 must use the conversion program to convert the file name and encoding to the format supported by MP4 itself to play the movie)
Such products may be related to the limitation of copyright on decoding, and more than 95% of them are produced by Chinese brands. More well-known brands include Aino, Onda, Gemei, Blue Devil, and Taipower (don't doubt, it is really called Taipower, but it has nothing to do with Taiwan's Taipower). As a result, their general prices are quite close to the people, even if the most expensive machine arrived in Taiwan, it will be around 4,000.
Aino is the first company to implement 720P decoding on MP5. In the MP5 era, it is also a solid leader. The V6000 series is one of the classics, and it has an index meaning in the "common role of assisting MP5", so I was put in.
However, due to the butterfly effect caused by our great Mr. JOBS, the MP5 is now fully developed in the direction of the tablet. The traditional MP5 still exists, but at present only the low-priced market can be seized, and the style is no longer the same.
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Additional replenishment:
Hard disk MP3 and PMP
1. Hard disk type MP3: It is a product born between MD & flash memory MP3. It uses hard disk as storage medium and the price is slightly higher. The more famous machines are Kenwood D9, Iriver H320, Iaudio X5L, Creative Zen Vision: M, etc. (The latter two are actually considered to have some video playback functions).
In fact, most of the so-called "old machines" supported by audiophiles are mostly MD and hard disk MP3 machines. Because of the high homogeneity of the products at that time, there are not too many tricks to add. The efforts made in sound quality are relatively more than in the MP4 era!
But the emphasis on sound quality is ultimately a niche market, with the final hard drive MP3 being replaced by flash MP3, and the hard drive products are still in addition to the iPod Classic (now become a favorite carousel for enthusiasts.... As a source external DAC and AMP), most of the latter are based on the video playback function.
2. PMP: The development end point of MP3 using hard disk as storage medium. The full name "Portable Media Player", the Chinese translation portable multimedia player, in the broad interpretation of the words now all MP4, MP5 included. But in fact, most of the mentions of PMP are all referring to "MP4 with hard disk storage."
Sounds ridiculous? That's right. Its price is not low (almost the price is 10K), the supported video format is small, the endurance is not high (the big screen and the hard disk are two major injuries), it is taken for granted by the MP5. There are also sound quality as a selling point, and only IAUDIO is left at the end. However, IAUDIO officially announced after X7 (X9, which is the X7 follow-up machine, has been changed to flash memory, and has also moved closer to MP4 in product positioning).
A little supplement to a senior audio player -
Cowon was founded in 1995. Iriver was founded in 1999. Interestingly, Iriver was actually founded by Samsung engineers. Afterwards, some of Iriver's people were dissatisfied with company policy and went to Cowon (iAudio is a sub-brand). Later, Samsung engineers Also joined Cowon, so the relationship between the three companies is very subtle.
Kenwood had an agent in the early days, but he was not well managed. The Japanese factory regained the agency rights in Taiwan.
In fact, the number 1 SONY TCM-150 is a pocket recorder, the output is MONO mono, not stereo, mainly used for recording, can not be regarded as a sensational martial arts cassette tape player 20 or 30 years ago, the card of the year The Walkman output is stereo and there is almost no recording. As for the radio function, there was a midnight music program in the middle of the year (I don't know what program to call). The host is a woman who seems to be called Lingchen. It is a program that college students liked very much. Many people use a cassette player.
The card-style Walkman was almost all Japanese goods, and SONY (new force), Panasonic (panasonic, earlier called international), and AIWA (Aihua) are the most famous, among which Sony and panasonic products are a little different, the former pays attention to the outside The style is fashionable and the function is novel. The latter is simple and steady, and pays attention to quality.
At the beginning of Taiwan, the cassette player was imported from Japan. It was very expensive. Later, there was a local brand called "Dai Yang" (deliberately with the same name as Israel's single-eyed star Dai Yang). The price was much cheaper. It didn't take long for "Little Goat" and so on. Local brands have sprung up, and the electronics industry in Korea was far less than Taiwan. (Speaking of this, think of Samsung now, then look at Taiwan...)
In addition, there is a product that appears later than the cassette player, which appeared earlier than MD. The short-lived product developed by Sony to enjoy music, called the "DAT" digital recorder, has also been a portable model (but heard The body machine can not be carried with you. Just DAT is as expensive as the dead. The fate of this stuff is the same as that of MD. It has not been red and red, and it has been smashed by the MP3 player. The advancement of electronic technology is too fast, and electronic products compete with The violent elimination is really chilling.
In the past, DAT and MD were divided into two types: "single release" and "recording and playback". The single release is purely for the playback function, such as: MZ-E10, MZ-EH1, recording and playback is recording and playback, such as MZ-NH1. MZ-RH1.
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Future prospects:
Many people say that mobile phones may replace MP3.
In my opinion, MP3 and MP4 will never disappear. In the low-priced market, the demand for these two things still exists. Especially the student population with a relatively small budget. The small size can be used during the class and the exam.....
MP5 is a solid transformational tablet. However, Chinese brands are still weak in terms of quality control. After all, the components that make up the tablet are much more complicated than the MP5. In this regard, Chinese brands still have a long way to go.
The size of the brick machine will gradually shrink, and the battery life will gradually increase. The appearance and workmanship will gradually increase.
The price is.... It will only get higher and higher! After all, the people who play the sound are basically a group of "crazy" who don't have money, so the manufacturers of brick machines are less stressful in terms of cost. In this regard, you can get a glimpse of the ibasso DX100.
Originally, this piece is still a Chinese brand, but there are also crises: international giant Iriver decided to attack the portable HIFI market and launch their first MP3, AK100, which supports 24BIT/192K. In terms of workmanship, design and materials, international manufacturers still have considerable standards. I believe this is a great shock to the Chinese brand. The era of the brick machine was only about to begin.
What will happen in the future? Let us wait and see, witness with your own eyes!
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