Sonys amazing Walkman is, of course, the one piece of audio technology that sort of defined the 1980s. Strangely, I never owned one. I do remember having a couple of portable cassette players here and there, but for me the piece of audio technology that defined my 80s was the Mura Hi-Stepper. Mura made a lot of different versions of this, but mine was just a radio receiver (i.e. no tape deck). I got it when I was at boarding school from a kid in my dorm who needed only like ten or fifteen bucks to get a real Walkman. So thats what I paid for it, and that was one of the best bargains I ever got for my money. It was pretty beat up when I got it, and over the next seven or eight years it got beat up even more. This thing was pretty much always in my pocket until my second year of college, and in that time I mustve dropped it a couple hundred times. But it never let me down. The receiver dial was pretty sensitive. It was literally the breadth of a human fingernail between clear reception and static, but if you moved it in incredibly small increments, you could pick up anything. I remember getting crystal reception from Detroit stations when I was in Toledo -- better reception than other guys in the dorm would get on stereos with antennae running from floor to ceiling. Wish I could remember now what happened to it. At some point, it disappeared into a conglomeration of stuff I was storing in the basement. When I lost my house a few years ago and was clearing my stuff out, I remember going through all of that basement stuff from top to bottom and not finding it. Maybe I threw it away at some point in the 90s without realizing it. In any case, I now get much better sound and probably just as good reception from my iPod Nano. So this little guys obsolete. But heres a shoutout to Mura for making the one of the best radios I ever heard of. FMSTEREO: hell yeah...
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:26:24 +0000
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