My discman broke........

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On the plus side, my car is full of petrol.

Do places still repair discmen or will I have to go direct to the manufacturer? It's still in guarantee. Thankfully I am using what those in the trade call the "CD ROM DRIVE" to play Jay Z unplugged.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

my car is full of petrol.

isn't that a bit dangerous?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

No-one fixes Discmans anymore (did they ever?). Buy cheap ones, and save your money for a good home system. I treat all my disc(men) like I treat my shoes - they are there to be used and worn out. I end up breaking them in six-nine months. Will someone buy me an iPod?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Not if you're going to treat it like shoes.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I make no promises, Madchen.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I have had 3 cockfarming discmen fuck up on me this year. Clearly I am a Discman 'rough rider'.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not fair, I've had it for 3 months. It just won't do anything, display is dead etc etc. I have a minidisc at home but I still hate those bastard things.

As for the car, no it's just below head level.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I have had the same one since Oct 1997, and it's great. Sorry.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

If you still have the receipt take it back to the place you bought it. This is why it's important to be sensible and keep document files and stuff. I am smug.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah it's odd, before this one I'd had the same one for years. It's just dead, shame. I may still have the guarantee, I'll have to look when I go home.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a discman-stopped working and I had a minidisc one-stopped recording+door sort of fell off.

I have a walkman. works FINE. batteries seem to last FOREVER. etc.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh, ooh, buy me a beck iPod.

http://www.apple.com/promo/ipod/beck.html

I WON'T treat it like shoes.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i never much liked the discman. too big. same goes for the minidisc, didn't like it AT ALL but for different reasons (too fragile being one of'em). iPOD is RAD, MANG

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i have had the same discman since 1995. what is wrong with you people? it lives in its own little paisley bag to protect it from the elements, i clutch it closely so it doesn't get bumped around while i'm jogging, i treat it well, and it serves me well. what is wrong with you people?

or perhaps i was lucky enough to be given said discman at a time when discmans were well constructed and built to last, and not having planned obselescence built in. cause i used to go through walkmen at a rate of one every three months of so back in the 80s.

(yes, i know that's funny in light of the preppies thread, but get your minds out of the gutter.)

― kate, Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mini disc player was way too fwagile, it's held together with sticky tape until I can find the right sized screws to replace the ones that mysteriously vanished...

― smee (smee), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, I can have them etch the word "BECK" on the back of an iPod for only $50 more than a regular iPod? WHAT A DEAL!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean-that's a great point. I was just thinking the other day about how a pencil with "Teletubbies" written on the side automatically makes it more appealing to kids because it is now a "Teletubbies pencil", but actually it's just wood and lead.

I digress...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

iPod is great and a good size but still bigger than a regular minidisc player. if i had a mac at home i'd get an ipod. my md player works marv. and now i have new cd player with optical out the quality is much improved (i had a rubbish amp too)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

alert !!!
SONY worldwide guarantees mean that with any product
( headphones/walkmen/etc.)
u can return an item if it's fucked before the year/6 month
guarantee is up.

et voila, back to the shop, hand it over - "give me a new one".

― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You can get an iPOD for your PC as well apparently. But at $400 I can think of better things to own.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

My Discman is broken too. I'd had it for three years before it broke. Now I'm just using the same tape Walkman I've had since 1998 -- although it's starting to eat my tapes. Bad Walkman!

I wonder if there's anyplace I could get an older, discontinued model of a Discman for considerably cheaper than a new, spiffy one.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Gah eating tapes! I feel your pain, I found a tape which said ORBITAL LIVE NEW YEARS EVE 1998 on it in my brothers room and you can imagine my delight as I skipped out to the car with it and stuck it in the deck, it was just doing chime with the bells and they were screaming happy new year and then it just went nuts and ate the tape. It's still there. I really hope my discman can be saved.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

iPod is now my friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I always break the headphones somehow, or the connnection to the headphones, so that I only get one ear working. With walkmen, with minidiscs, with discmen. It really pisses me off too. I am thinking of getting a cheap discman, but feel it is a step back from my minidisc, which still works ok anyway, just not in a transportable way. Fuck it, I'll buy a discman. Or I could get a minidisc that doesn't record. Choices, choices.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i would say buy a minidisc player but i just bought the new Philips CD/CD-R/CD-RW portable player (only £50 from Amazon and FREE delivery) which means i dont have to bother spending an age recording mp3 to minidisc no more - wahahey

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

only 50 pounds????? Whoa, how is it? How many hours does it play etc etc?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

My discman is doing this weird thing where it rather randomly plays only one out of every twenty times I put a cd in and press play (although it has its favourites and pet hates - it seems to like Finisterre and The Blueprint 2, for example). The rest of the time, it will just spin the disc forever and make these periodic whirring sounds. It's just outside of warranty, sadly - any ideas as to what it is that is wrong and whether it's easily fixable?

Prize: um, faster reports on albums on Skykicking, for one.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 13 December 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is alive! Alive! I'm not sure what happened it but being the romantic that I am I decided to give it a try this morning in case a miracle had happened. And it's playing Champu by Daniel Diamond right now! And it's friday!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 13 December 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

To prevent skipping and instant discman death i tape the lid of my discman down. I have been using this same discman for the past 7 years or something.

― Honda (Honda), Friday, 13 December 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

twelve years pass...

The day I've been fearing for years has come: my discman broke. I've been using it more than ever over the last few months, and new ones (that aren't abysmal) are hard to find, at least not without shelling out for them on ebay. I dunno if anyone here knows enough about portable cd players to recommend especially good ones, or whether an ordinary one can be salvaged with a headphone amp/DAC (would that even work on a portable cd player, or does it need a line out port, which some do have). Oh the tribulations of cd players in 2015.

― EDB, Saturday, 10 October 2015 00:29 (ten years ago)

my first discman looked like this: http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l19/chongyixiong/SonyD-E8852.jpg

the design on some of the early models is lovely. like this (not crazy about the control panel/screen, though): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/SONY_D-5_DISCMAN_AUSTIN_CALHOON_PHOTOGRAPH.jpg

― brimstead, Saturday, 10 October 2015 00:51 (ten years ago)

that is beautiful

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 10 October 2015 02:03 (ten years ago)

Held onto one of those for a long time. At the point it broke the only thing I could buy to replace was a super El Cheapo version so just threw in the towel

― Take 36, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 October 2015 15:52 (ten years ago)

I still have two panasonics I got from big lots or some such in 1996. Both running fine last time I tested them and I played the living shit out of them from 1996 to 2005. I'm going to test them tonight dammit <3

― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 October 2015 15:21 (ten years ago)

I bought the first-ever Technics portable CD player when it was new:

http://yuri-yuri.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/pcdp/image/20150214001.jpg

It had a nice mini-SL1200 look, and it seemed amazing in 1985 that anything so small could sound so good. The coolness factor was why I didn't buy a full-size CD player; I had no real need for portability. Which was a good thing, because it could NOT run on batteries. If you wanted to take it out for a jog you had to buy the optional battery pack accessory, which completely engorged the CD player and doubled its size:

http://vintage-cd.ru/images/thumb/1/1d/Slxp7-anfas-open.jpg/320px-Slxp7-anfas-open.jpg

But the coolest thing about it (which I just dicovered now!) was that they also made a matching clamshell turntable:

http://vintage-cd.ru/images/thumb/e/e4/Sl-xp7-sl10.JPG/640px-Sl-xp7-sl10.JPG

WANT

― Lee626, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:04 (ten years ago)

The early square designs are pretty great. A lot is lost with the transition to clam shell.

― calstars, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:10 (ten years ago)

My Discman sounds like crap. I use it a lot for when I'm cooking or walking around... Should I go vintage or is someone still making a good one?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:31 (ten years ago)

i like and still use my discman, but i'm kinda tired of buying batteries... did anyone ever make a rechargeable discman? that would be cool.

― tylerw, Monday, 12 October 2015 17:54 (ten years ago)

Yes - I have a Sony D-824K or maybe D-822K (don't have it with me, basing this on online photos) that has a battery compartment that could either hold two standard AA batteries or a rechargable NiMH battery pack. If you used the latter, it would recharge whenever the CD player was plugged into AC mains power (or maybe 12V car power, don't remember). I don't know if the battery pack is still available, but it appears it's just two rechargable AA batteries connected in series (or is it in parallel? I'm not up on my eletronics) and any two batteries with welded connector tabs would work. But really, any CD player that accepts standard batteries can use rechargable batteries instead. I have the Apple battery charger which is barely larger than the 2 AA batteries it charges (the ones included are excellent, as they don't lose much power even if they go unused for a long time).

This by the way is also a great all-around Discman. At least to my undiscerning ears it sounds as good as any digital player I've heard, and its design is exceptionally well thought out and easy to use. Nice touches include backlighting (in your choice of green or orange), a remote control (also backlit), switchable track position memory (great for audiobooks), and little dimples on the controls that make them easy to use just by feel. This was the first CD player to have a (3-second) buffer to make it more skip-resistant.

http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/CmWgNlDRYbHAgFRd.medium

― Lee626, Monday, 12 October 2015 19:26 (ten years ago)

Some of the mid-00s Goodmans CD players could recharge regular AA Ni-Cads internally.

― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Monday, 12 October 2015 19:42 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

My Discman broke :(

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:56 (nine years ago)

― Moog and Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:58 (nine years ago)

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