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- From: donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Don Montgomery)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:20:39 GMT
- Subject: Re: RECOMMANDATION FOR WALKMAN ABOUT $100
- Message-ID: <1190783@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
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- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- References: <1992Dec21.190235.16464@iex.uucp>
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- In rec.audio, frankc@faatcrl (Frank Coffman) writes:
-
- > Sony sports.
-
- Of all the Sony yellow-cased "sport" manually-tuned walkmans I've looked at
- in the stores, more than half of them have had one or both knobs broken
- off. That doesn't tell me much about the durability of that model.
-
- I really liked the digital tuned Sony sports walkman, it's built like the
- proverbial brick outhouse, but it lacks extended base ("megabase"?). It
- also draws close to 50 milliamperes from its 3 volt battery source. Why
- can't someone design a synthesized radio that doesn't kill batteries? When
- I compared the Sony sports digital to an Aiwa with extended base, I was so
- disheartened that I returned the Sony for refund and decided to research
- the market once more. (BTW, throughout these tests, I was using my own top-
- end portable 'phones and fresh alkaline cells.)
-
- I sure got some weird looks from salespeople when I pulled out my pocket
- VOM and measured battery currents. Nearly every manufacturer of digital
- portable drew 45-65 mA, with manually tuned models drawing < 25 mA.
-
- Anyway, I'm still without a portable.
-
- Don Montgomery
- donrm@sr.hp.com
-