Every Major Sony Innovation Since The Beginning
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- THE STORY OF HOW SONY CHANGED THE WORLD, TOLD THROUGH THE PRODUCTS THAT INFLUENCED GENERATIONS...
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00:00 Intro
00:48 1960's
04:01 1970's
09:15 1980's
14:14 1990's
18:16 2000's
20:55 2010's
23:33 Sony Hacked - Наука та технологія
Everyone has a story about a SONY! Tell me yours...
From Kenya,I have grown up with Sony and own a Walkman,The TC-377 Reel to Reel,CDP497 and the SS176e speakers😀
It's a Sony! ❤
RN just a PS5 & a Walkman (cassette), sold the MD Deck a while ago
ItS A SONY ❤
1 wm-4, 1 wm-f1, 1 wm-f18, 1 wm-22, 2 sx-34, 1 Sony TCS-470 amazing machines. I took my wm-4 on some road trips playing audio through my aux port so cool. Using the ones with auto reverse you feel it click so nice
I just want to torture myself with an hour loop of that song
All current audio components (receiver, CD, cassette, R2R tape); Beta, VHS & DVD recorders, Blu-Ray player, D8 & HDD camcorders, pocket and mid-size digital cameras, plus had a cassette Walkman, HD Trinitron TV, and NetMD. (Possibly even more!) Loved the products and the excellent engineering, but the shine started to come off (for me at least) around 2005 or so, after I was blown away by the elegance and simplicity of the iPod. This led to my conversion to Macintosh in late 2006 through to now. (I still LOVE the Beta and Mini-Disc formats though!)
What I’ve always admired about Sony was their history of pushing the state-of-the-art. There was a time when Sony would regularly introduce products that reset the bar when it came to performance…there was even a sub-brand they created in the 90’s called Qualia where they introduced several items to the public that were created with no concern to cost, just to create the best product possible. Sony gets a lot of heat about all the proprietary formats they’ve introduced, but when viewed on their own merits, most of these formats were great performers…they just ended up not being widely adopted (Minidisc, Betamax, DAT, etc.). What I really wish is that Sony gets back to creating an true ES…Elevated Standard…line in audio again. Those two letters used to mean so much to audiophiles, much like Sony’s XBR does to videophiles. As far as what Sony audio products I currently own, I have their NWZ-ZX1 music player and MD-ZR1 headphones…an amazing, high-end listening experience!
The one format I did NOT get, and wanted at the time, was DAT. It could record at better bitrates than CD and was FAR superior to analogue cassettes. Of course, in time, other digital formats (including iPod) could store more. These days the point is moot, as my poor hearing is not even equal to that of a CD. It is very annoying that, by the time you can finally afford something, it is discontinued or no longer relevant. (You spend the first half of your life acquiring stuff; you spend the second half disposing of it.) SIGH!
there was the subbrand Wega too
@@CasnioMiCasio Oh, yes…I had a Wega 36” TV back in the day. Thing weighed almost 400 pounds! If I recall correctly, the Wega line were the first commercially available CRT tube TV’s with a flat display screen…they were as striking to look at design wise as they were to watch. Great TV’s…probably the best CRT sets ever as LCD/plasma took over not long after.
@@rahb1 I hear you about DAT…was so tempted to give it a try. But, I had already jumped on the Minidisc train. Talk about a format that didn’t go anywhere! But, it was a game changer for me…first way to make mixes from CD’s that sounded as good as the source. It died quickly once commercial CD-R/CD-RW drives started shipping with every computer. I still have all my Minidisc stuff though…fun to listen to when nostalgia strikes.
I loved reading about Qualia stuff in the early 2000s. $10K gold and platinum mini disc players etc.
Sony president visited New York City in the late70s. While walking the city streets he was greatly annoyed of the strident music blaring from boom boxes. After he returned to Japan, he ordered his engineers to come up with a device that was small, lightweight, and provided high quality hi fi stereo sound thru mini headsets. The Sony Walkman was born.
Japanese society is mostly very polite. Drinking is from a large beer bottle into small glasses. A round is poured for everybody in the group. Generally, after an auto accident, both parties apologize. So blaring music from jam boxes in a public space would NOT be a thing. Large portable stereos would be used as home entertainment or for use at an inside party AT REASONAL VOLUME.
Thank you for that interesting information. 😊
As Sony trained A/V repair tech and also a fan of the brand there is no denying that they made some
great products.
But Sony made one big mistake, trying to compete with the mass market brands by making inferior
products which i had to repair and often cursed them!
Sony still did make good gear but at a price, the later ES Hi-Fi was mostly excellent with only a few
bad ones mixed in, mainly the cassette decks with weak mechanisms that would jam due to split gears.
Their higer end CD players and Recivers were as good if not better than most, you just had to avoid
the entry level models.
I am still a Sony fan and have owned a lot of the better ones, but Sony lost their way by trying to compete
in the mass market pile them high and sell them cheap market.
They should have stayed where they were best reknown for, pricey but high quality and desirable gear.
I liked the mini-disc. Unfortunately, I had to abandon it, due to eventual lack of support. In other words, it became obsolete.
That very nearly happened to cassettes too, the original choice of pre-recorded titles was very limited.
I actually returned to minidisc after the web MD software came out making writing music to the minidisc (NetMD devices) very easy
Me too
I was a salesman at a home electronics company in the 70’s. I was there when they introduced the BetaMax to the world. It was only $2700. I rolled my eyes when we were told the price. I bought a STR 6800 receiver back then and paired it with JBL L65 Jubals and to this day, I have never found anything I like better. Still have the system. 46 years and other than reconing the woofers, it still going strong. I have also had many Sony TV’s.
Thanks for the story, love to hear about working at stores in the 80s!
Sony made some fantastic stereo receivers in the early 1990's. STR-AV990 was certainly one of them.
Man, I remember Sony being a somewhat exclusive brand. Similarly, to Bang & Olufsen, they even had Sony stores back in the 80's. A little time passed and then they started to sell the cheapest crap possible at Wal*Mart. The Sony brand's high perception went away quickly.
Thanks for another great history lesson! In 1975 I was in the Navy and had my very own spending money for the first time. I bought a Sony TA-1130 integrated amplifier. What a great component. Today I own a FM Walkman, a cassette Walkman and a CD Walkman that I have connected to my garage stereo. I also have a Sony CD player and cassette deck in my store room that I need to dig out. I also have four Sony Blu Ray players.
For a few years, at least, DAT was the industry standard for pro recording studios and people who did field recordings for research. BTW, thx for not skipping the cassette era.
Tried to hit everything at least once
The problem with Sony is they have made bad judgment calls frequently. They abandoned things they should have stuck with and stuck with things that were not necessary or useful. Sony is notorious for throwing in the towel too early and moving on to things rather quickly.
Minidisc is a great example.
@@RJDA.Dakota Recordable CD's killed MiniDisc. I got suckered into MD in 1996 with a MD home stereo recording/playing deck and a portable player and less than a year later that was obsolete. It turned out to be a waste of money. I ended up selling the deck and portable player for about 75 bucks on eBay in 2002
Sony AND Panasonic. Most of the time there moderately priced (mid-line) products made me very HAPPY. Feature rich, reliable, quality, well layed out (ergonomic), & attractive.
I can't think of anything Sony held on to for too long. It gave up on Mini-disc too soon for MY liking, as it was ideal for radio, although superseded by iPod for personal audio.
Sony put its fingers into too many pies!
Sony the one and only doesn’t exist anymore! 🙁
One of my first introductions to consumer electronics was my mom's all-in-one stereo system from childhood, with vinyl record changer (yes, it could stack 5 records at a time), AM/FM radio, and 8-track tape recorder. The 8-track part was the first thing to break, but otherwise it lasted a few decades.
Early silver-face Sony amps and receivers have a solid, simple, elegant look that I love, like they've distilled everything down to its ideal essence. They sound really good, too. (This was before they became a mass merchandiser.) The silver face and incandescent-illuminated green dial of the STR-50xx and STR-60xx are as striking and classic as the more famous Marantz and Pioneer models from the same time. And they completely re-thought what a receiver could look like with the STR-Vx series -- and that incredible aqua-green illumination that was like nothing else on this planet!
really enjoyed that....great review! Always drooled over the ES series in Stereo stores back in the day....and the Walkman changed my life!
In the 1980s, I attended a lecture given at the local meeting of the "Society of Broadcast Engineers," which dealt with VCRs. Sony had developed their "u-matic" video cassette decks in the late 60s (I think) for broadcast use. The Beta format was the same as the u-matic, but scaled down, employing 1/2 tape instead of 3/4". The lecturer said that Sony would not license the Betamax system to other manufacturers. So JVC came up with VHS, and they DID allow other makers to use it. Beta was BETTER than VHS, being based on a format adapted from one that produced broadcast quality video. But VHS flourished, while Beta fell by the wayside, apparently due to Sony's desire capture the market.
Thanks for the info!
Close but not completely correct. 3/4' U-matic was a color under format and was not Broadcast compatible when introduced. It was used for industry and cable. It took the invention of the TBC (Time Base Corrector) to stabilize and correct U-matic enough. And they cost more than the deck for some time.
Yes Betamax uses the "Beta" wrap that U-matic used. Tape is drawn out of the shell and wrapped completely around the video head like the letter B. VHS used an "M" wrap. Pulling some tape out of both sides of the video head and wrapping it that way. Less tape out of the shell mean better tape control. Less mechanism. U-Matic was co-developed by Sony, JVC and Panasonic with angered release date. Sony broke the contract and introduced theirs first to claim first in! So Panasonic and JVC worked together to develop VHS to compete with Sony's using the Beta wrap.
Panasonic/ JVC would allow any manufacturer to use the VHS technology/ Logo as long as they would meet certain specs for compatibility. Sony wanted money to license Betamax and then would only license Betamax II, not the original Betamax. So yes manufactures jumped on the free VHS wagon.
Sony went on to use the Beta tape design in BetaCam, a Broadcast grade tape format. And later DII. I've sold all of it.
I know the u-matic was used in broadcasting for a long time. A friend of mine who was a broadcast engineer bought a surplus one from KGUN TV, where he worked in 1974. At KUAT, we used them for remote productions, and editing in the studio, throughout the 70s & 80s. Of course, they had TBCs. I don't know exactly when the u-matic came out, but by the early 70s, TV stations were using them.
@@glenncurry3041BetaCam was the best videoTAPE format and used by most TV stations for ENG. If only Sony had licensed Beta II for a minimal fee, it may have outsold VHS machines, which were always a generation or two behind in features; MOST notably skip-scan.
@@Pootycat8359 As I said, Broadcast could not use U-matic until the TBC was available. It did not meet RS 170 much less RS170A. I've literally have designed TV stations. I trained on 2" RCA TRT1B's. Ran Master Control for broadcast TV when it was a manual operation. I sold more Sony, JVC and Panasonic U-matic than I can count. I've sold Ampex ADO! 3/4" is based on "color under", taking the I and Q color information and dropping the frequency and bandwidth/ resolution to "under" the "Y" monochrome signal instead of above it. And change the color vectors to R-Y/ B-Y. Not meeting RS-17A specs. Not broadcast-able. TBC's and Proc Amps allowed Broadcast to drop to "good enough" standards. The CE of my customer Sinclair Broadcast back in the day told me they could now air dead VHS tape if a customer bought that air time and it would meet broadcast specs.
FWIW I actually gave two seminars as a member of SMPTE at early HDTV Conventions they held.
I had/have Sony: Walkman, MD portable, MD deck, amp, cassedeck, numerous cassette tapes, high end mini system, record players x 2, headphones x 6, PS2, PS3, 4K Atmos receiver, 4K BD player. It never disappointed or failed.
In the late part of the 1970s I bought a Sony Trinitron 27 inch TV. That was considered an amazing television since my friends and I grew up with 19 or 20 inch B&W televisions. It had stereo sound but no preamp outputs. Before VCRs existed, I plugged in a modified headphones plug and connected it to my stereo. That was a hit for me and my friends watching broadcast tv shows or broadcasted movies. My stereo blew away the little 3 inch tv speakers. My first VCR was a Sony Betamax, which I watched via channel 3. Sony's successes and their not so successful innovations made other companies desperately move into paying patent fees or create their own innovation.
Thanks for sharing!
I bought a STR-V7 receiver at a pawn shop back in the late 80's and used it daily until 2002. I loved it.
I miss analog devices. They were fun to use. Like those kodak film cameras. Very nice to hold and simple, durable too
I had some good Sony hi-fi gear. A mini system in the 90s fh313
Current one is a Sony Scala with seperate tape, CD and tuner. Nice equipment.
But also had some of their lesser good gear too (late 90s)
A powerhouse of a company.
I have always admired Sony. I started working in pro-camera retail in the mid 2000's and was new to digital photography when i started. At the time the mighty goliath in digital was Canon, no one could touch them as far as still photography. Sony bought the Minolta SLR division for the lens mount. They were kinda quiet for a few years then they crushed the entire industry! They released mirrorless cameras and larger imaging cmos sensors, no one could keep up. They provided their sensor technology to Nikon and the earlier iphones. it was crazy to see what they could accomplish when they dug in with gusto! Sony does really have a reputation of pushing things and making the competitors improve as well to keep up. Great piece by the way!
I'm surprised you didn't mention Sony's line of excellent shortwave receivers. I have an ICF-2010, which was introduced in the 1980s, and remained in production until the early 2000s. It's still considered one of the best AM/FM/SW radios around, and has become something of a "cult classic." In the 70s & 80s, I worked as a Radio/TV Engineer for an AM/FM/TV station. We had big, 2" "quad" video tape machines (the name refers to the four video heads they had, on spinning head-wheels). In the 80s, we acquired two 1" helical scan machines made by Sony. They were sold by RCA, but were Sonys, with the RCA name on them. They were "state-of-the art," and cost around $350,000 apiece.
Whoa! Thanks for the info
It's interesting to note that those Sony VTRs came with extensive documentation, the service manuals consisting of several massive volumes. But the WRITING! It contained statements like, "Please to advise voltage TP213 not more 18V, more 16V...." I think those engineers retired, and are now freelancing in China, teaching the Chinese the finer points of English grammar...
You're damm right in you're comment. Overall Sony modelsnumbers where different on different continents like US(A), CA (Canada), JP (Japan) and AEP (Europe). Loved the ICF 2001.
i have a new to me, well it's been a couple of years now, it is an STR-V6 monster reciever, it sounds amazing! sadly it isn't known by many and very few hate it and people haven't caught on to how good of a reciever this is but, this thing is a bliss to listen to, always amazes me. i even have a PS-X7 Turntable, another wonderful piece of kit, works flawlessly, after i broke my head on how to fix the issues it had. i even have their CMT-EX1 vertical cd player, can't say that this sounds great, you can hook a dac up to it and make it sound better, but in terms of looks, it is a showstopper!
Great video but adding the year each product was released would be an awesome addition.
I’ve been using a Sony F770ES stereo amplifier for the better part of 10 years now and this thing still holds its own 🤘
I had a D-10 portable CD player back in the late 80's. It had a flat, thin, form fitting lead acid gel cell battery that snapped under the player. It could play a then unheard of 2+ hours on a charge! The one thing that I didn't like was the drive mechanism was actually noisy. You could hear a distinct hiss coming from the player as the disc was spinning. It was loud enough you could hear it even with headhphones on. My solution was to put the unit in my desk drawer as it played. I once saw a cool docking station for it that drove two small speakers. For it's day it was cutting edge.
Great player. I had the D-11. And a few others later on.
I own some of Sony's 90's ES series components (receiver, a tape deck, equalizer and a cd player all made in Japan) which are still in perfect working condition and they sound great. Sony today isn't what it used to be sadly and I love the brand.
4:26 I still have the first stereo system that I bought new in 1978: a Sony TA-2650 amplifier + ST-2950F tuner. Paired with National Panasonic SB-39 loudspeakers the humble little system was so good value for money that 3 people I knew back then got themselves the same system. It's still functioning well.
I owned the same system. From memory it came with a PS-2350 turntable. I can't remember the speaker model.
My family had several Trinitron tv's in the late 70's early 80's. Never had any problems and the picture was second to none. However! Any Sony product we had in the mid 80's forward was a constant problem. Since then no more sony products for me.
I had two 252-D reel-to-reels, a TC-350 reel-to-reel, my Dad had two TC-270 reel-to-reel transports with the SRA recording amps, SRA-2 then the SRA-3. I had a STR-222 receiver. All well-made gear. Oh! and a 5-303W BW TV (mico) my Mom used in the kitchen... Gotta keep up with the Soaps!
14:25 I still own a pair of APM 22ES MKII (the German made), although I changed the tweeters with one from Eminence (9x9 with custom horn to fit), and coupled the speakers with two Onken bass cabinets - I had to modify the crossovers to suit as the cutoff frequency was slightly low.
Great Video 👍👍👍👍👍
I have the SCD-1 still works and looks brand new.
This "audio" series deserve an Emmy too... Gr8 work! 👌💯💥
Thanks!!
More of a 70’s and 80’s collector. I did have arm band FM radio. Super great tuner and really loud. I had the the cassette sized Walkman with FM tuner! Awesome unit! I had the super slim CD player with remote. It had a cool display but skipped very easily. All portables all stolen. Did not get too much time with them. When I got them new.
Recommended reading: "The Sony Vision" by Nick Lyon.
It ends at about 1975-1976 because that was when it was published,
but it is a fascinating story of how the company started and progressed.
Hello. Could someone tell me the common characteristics of Sony's CMT line, which dates from the 90s onwards?
I think my first Sony was a reel-2-reel recorder I got when I was 9 (it was my fathers, but he didn't use it anymore). In the 90's and 2000's I got a walkman, integrated amp, tuner and the MZ1 (which was hugely expensive for me being only 17), and a dual casette deck. After that I got various other Sony devices as well. I have some cheap 43cm MD recorder, 2 DSC-1024G (a pro video scan convertor), a studio delay unit. Also, Sony made high end CRT monitors, not only as Sony, but also for other brands. I used to have a Sun and an SGI monitor that were made by Sony.
Hats off to you for this exhaustive retrospective! You really dug deep. I ran Sony employee training classes and dealer sales-training back in the 90’s. The litany of A-V milestones made our Park Ridge NJ headquarters new hire rah-rah sessions easy and fun.
Thank you!!
When I was in Jr high and high school in the late 70s and early 80s, Walkmans were a bit out of my allowance range. But after I got jobs, etc Sony became a favorite brand. Car stereos, CD Players, and one of my favs was my 1993 19 inch Trinitron. Now I type this on a mac mini hooked to a '65 inch Bravia. Sony has just always been around. Oh, and the MDR-7506 headphones were a must for audio/radio DJ nerds like me. They were just solid phones that didn't cost that much. Thanks for the history of a fascinating company/brand!
Sony was nice, Panasonic was a slightly better product. My Panasonic products were better built, robust like a tank.
The sony Vfet 8650 is really something to hear, but you have to do some modifications to make it reliable because the final output transistors aren't available anymore, and if you ever find them, they will be crazy expensive. And you can also use it as a space heather.
I've had that one, a very nice series but lots of work for sure.
I first worked on the Sony exhibit in 1991 on the COMDEX show in Las Vegas and most every year until the late 20teens, CES and Interbike, up to two weeks of setup time and got to see everything from the first LED TV to memory sticks, a 96k was almost 500$! My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.
Over the years I've owned 3 sony amps inc. 1 V-FET, 3x tuners, I Dolby C cassette deck, 5 Trinitron TVs, I SXRD TV, 1 laserdisc player, 3x Betamax VCRs, 1x SuperBeta Hi-Fi VCR, 3x VHS Hi-Fi VCRs, 2x CD Players, 1 CD Discman, I portable Cassette, 5 DVD players, 2 Bl-Ray Players, 1 UHD Blu-Ray Player, 4x Turntables inc. 2 linear tracking, 2x Sony Cameras and 1 OLED TV. Currently I still about a third of them!
Love this series… thank you.
You need to re-do this clip! Sony’s 1/2” reel-to-reel videotape recorder/players starting in 1965 were insanely revolutionary. Apart from making video recording available to the greater public, it also initiated the genre of video art.
Just for nostalgia's sake, they need to bring back the true CASSETTE Walkman. And make blank cassettes once again to complement it (though I'd prefer Maxell & TDK to get back into that game).
Yes
I used to ‘fix up’ gear for people I worked with who were taking them out of storage after several years. Most of us were retired military. Had nice gear from the audio clubs. Had an STRV6 given to me for repair. Needed a bit more expertise to bring it to spec than my comfort zone. Took it to a TV/Radio repair shop near Philly. Called a few times left message. Didn’t hear back for six months. Drove to shop, found out the owner died. The landlord cleaned the place out to rent to a nail spa!!! This was before the cell phone email era but no calls about the situation.
My first audio-toy was SONY TC-530 hi-fi portable tape recorder. (As a Christmas present no less !)
Later on (early 70's) I purchased a SONY TC-355 Open Reel Tape Deck.
In 1975 I got my hands on a SONY TA-2000f pre-amp (scratch & dent display model).
I have since re-built the line amps boards and re-capped ALL of it.
I STILL use it as my main gain stage and input selector.
ALL the switches and the original light bulbs still work !
I still love the champagne anodized aluminum panel and switches from that era.
My parents always had a SONY color TV (sometimes 2) circa 1970.
SONY was the leader in high-value (consumer) Open Reel tape machines and televisions for many years. (IMHO)
I've owned to many Sony products over the years that it would take a long time to type out. But I do still use on a daily basis is the Sony STR-DE945. Though I've always used Sony for the electronic side of things I didn't use Sony Speakers just because I didn't like the sound. I did like their Headphones a lot back in the day but now I use Klipsch. I bought my first Sony Surround sound Receiver when I was 16, the STR-D911 and built my own speaker cabinets in shop class. It took me almost a year to save up the $550 bucks working at a feed shop for the D911 lol.
I used to repair TVs, VCRs and audio gear in the late 80s an 90s the things i remember Sony for are the hight failure rate of the UK made trinitron crt (one of the heaters used to go open circuit usually the green gun) and the mod kits for some of the TV power supplies in where a couple of large resistors would burn a hole in the pcb. and the cassette decks and VCRs with plastic gears that would split and would require a complete strip down of the mechanism to fix but the trinitron TVs did have in my opinion the best picture quality though. I have also lost count of the number of KSS210 cd laser pickups i have replaced as these were used in quite a few brands of cd players. those were the times when you could make a living repairing consumer electronics.
"but the trinitron TVs did have in my opinion the best picture quality though" Totally agree! I owned two Trinitron TVs; one was standard 4:3 (1990s) and the second was HD @ 16:9 with 1080i (over the air) and 1080p via media. Sony's Trinitron was the ultimate champion of CRT displays. No longer an issue, of course.
I have a Sony radio alarm clock ICF-3CW from late 80’s early 90’s. Still works and I still use it.
From first transistor radio (70s kid) to today have always liked and owned Sony gear. Have owned most their gear over the years, apart from Beta & DAT, and watching this on a Sony TV. Love the history and always admired Akio Morita
PS: Still have a fully functional D5 (D50) portable CD player :)
I sold Sony products for 10 years . At one point decided to bring in thr ES line . The terms for carrying thr ES line became a huge issue . As ,uch as I tried to explain thr market was shifting and being forced to inventory certain product items were detrimental to small businesses . I spoke to reps and spokespeople and over a years time . People I had a business relationship for years. I bluntly told them they were going to destroy thr ES line altogether. A year later they shut it down . Many audio esp car audio manufacturers shared the same fate . That being said I thorougly enjoyed selling their products .
I still use a Sony MHC-E8X mini hifi (purchased in 1996) as a desktop amplifier.
I have some APM790s. They are certainly one of the budget models, but have square drivers. Funny enough I used to use them with my Pioneer SX-1250 (before I got my HPM100's). They sound okay I guess, I could easily overpower them though so I could never really "crank it". I would love to get the time era appropriate Sony receiver for them and listen to them as they're meant to be listened to. Could anybody recommend any models?
Still use my Sony CRT, my Portable Sony Minidisc Recorder , and Sony Minidisc Component Recorder to this day.
God bless Mr Rogers 🙏🏾
A shame some bits were skipped.
I'm not a fan boy, but I tend to go to then for certain thongs. PS1 & PS2, CD Player Walkman, Boom box, Erisson phones, Bluetooth speaker, Blu-ray player, and my current phone Xperia 5ii. That's about it. Never had their TV or VCR. Was more into Sharp back in the day fot that sort of stuff.
Know anything about the Sony Stereo Cassette Deck TC- K4A? Looks like it’s from the 70s.
I still have my first Sony integrated a TA-1144 (i think wrapped up) copy of the Marantz 1200 integrated (have one) My current project might be the start of the demise of Ampex a pair of 777 reel to reels. Unbelievable build quality. Funny thing about one of them the VU meters were made by Sansui! Actually have the name on them. I started in this nutty hobby in 1972.
I'll never forget the first time i ever heard "Don't You Want Me" by Human League on a Sony Walkman in the 80s. It was mind boggling how good that sounded.
So cool!
Dont you want me Babbbyyyyy. Dont you want me oh ohhhh oh oh oh
My home stereo is largely older Sony products: An STR-D915 receiver from the mid-90's, A DVP-S330 DVD player from '03/'04, and a CDP-CX55 50 disc CD Changer. I had a newer receiver from about '05, but sadly one of the kids spilled juice all over the top of it. I also had a Sony dual cassette deck for years until it died (it will be replaced fairly soon with another Sony dual cassette deck). In the 90's I had one of those bright yellow waterproof Sony Walkman decks that I used with a pair of Sony MDR-V100's, then later a pair of MDR-V200's which I loved. I DJ'ed with Sony headphones almost exclusively and recorded music with a pair of Sony MDR-7504's. In college I had one of the most wonderful boomboxes Sony ever made: The CDF-750 (only bested by the CDF-760 because it had a remote control). The bass coming off of that thing could be heard loudly from one end of my dorm hall to the other and shook things in my suite mate's room.
Speaking of... One thing I noticed in this video was the lack of even mentioning Sony's MegaBass boombox lineup (anybody remember the Megabass boombox commercial where they blew out a lit match from a port?) or their utterly amazing mini component systems released towards the end of the 80's and early 90's including the FH-E828 and MHC 5500.
I love sony sound signature and the products are very durable. I still use a set of headphones I bought back in 2003. I still love the way they sound 20 yr later
I have the Sony CFS-9000,CFS-W900, and CFD-5 mini hifi with APM. Amazing!
Sony did make some good stuff, but during the late 80’s and 90’s there were some serious quality issues. Some of their Mega Bass Walkmans had a some plastic mechanics that were just too weak and kept breaking. Then there was the 29” CRT TV, that incorporated some extra protection for the tube, unfortunately it turned this caused the TV to turn off intermittently, they sold loads of those and it put a lot of people off Sony. But they also had some fantastic innovations with VHS, including a tape label that held data about what was on the tape, later refined to a header on the tape that held a menu so you could access individual recordings.
Sony made Betamax, not VHS.
@@ronaldmorris319713:25 and plenty of VHS, too.
@@ronaldmorris3197 Sony invented Betamax and made Betamax, but also made very good VHS recorders.
Great video!
I have been a Sony collector for a long time and built up a pretty good collection if I may say so, having some ultra rare pieces in my collection 🙂
For now it consist of:
SCD-1
SCD-777ES
3 x TA-E1
3 x TA-N1
TA-FA777ES
SS-M9
SS-TW100ED
FW-90 super rare magnetic feet’s
TB-1000 plinth
MDR-Z1R headphones
Hopefully a TA-ER1, TA-NR10 combo is on the way very soon 🙂
I still owne a Sony ES Cd Player and a Mini Disc ! 👍🏼💫
Sony STR-DA777ES is hands down their best receiver ever made. Maybe the best receiver ever made period. I have 2 just in case one were to break down. Hook up the stand by while main one gets attention. 😊✌️
I had a 3/4 high end Sony fully automatic turntable, could not get the tracking adjusted correctly per directions & it ate stylus needles. Looked cool.
Watching this on a Sony TV right now (via Roku set-top box). Sadly, I hardly see Sony TV's in the stores anymore. Or Panasonic, JVC, or Hitachi. Japanese brands have given way largely to Chinese and Korean brands. While I've always liked Japanese electronics, I really miss American brands like Zenith and RCA.
RCA owned by Technicolor, a Thomson technology firm based in France, and Zenith, owned by the Lucky-GoldStar corporation, LG., a South Korean manufacturer. Our fault, we didn’t support our own brands. They really did sell themselves out, they tried to use foreign workforce to make a cheaper product but that idea actually worked in reverse.
@@RJDA.Dakota Of course I meant the original American-owned Zenith & RCA. Foreign buyout of classic reputable brands sucks.
I have many Sony products that all still work which is why I continue to buy them. The oldest of which is a tape deck and Walkman even a tv from the mid 90's, receivers, hi-fi vcr, several boomboxes, early 90's audio rack system, camcorders, original Playstation,Playstation 2 and 5 tv's from the early 2000's to 2011. Love the history lessons and the music blurbs.
I have a Sony TA ES700 Amp - It powers a Studer reel to reel, Aiwa XKS 7000 Tape deck, a Marantz CD 6005 and A Technics SL1500 C Turntable.Driving DALI speakers and sounds amazing !. I wish I was old enough when the El cassette decks came out as I would have brought one - I wish they were more popular, they deserved to be.
I just got a non working Sony Turntable I didn’t know they made and first saw on a techno album cover in the early 2000. I think it’s the Q3 and can’t remember the first two letters. Then I discover this Sony reel to reel that lays flat on a table and not upright.
Yeah, they made some very cool alectrobics.
Electronics. I wish yt had an edit feature bc most respond by phone and easy to make mistakes and don’t have the patience to rewrite everything.
I had the 101 CD Player and several Walkman Players one was a professional Player and recorder with Capstan servo Amorphous Head/WM-D3 still own it, a Mini Dic player recorder top of the line and the Audio Changer in my Car. Great company.
Impressive list of e-innovations
Sony made so many epic products over the years. Have at least 6 Sony devices in my room ranging from home cinema system to a bookshelf CD player
Hi, great interesting video, I had Number Sony product over the years, from cassette deck, Walkman , radio including great world sw mw, law and fm radios, regards Mark
I still use an old STR-KG700.
I still have a Sony CD player from around 1998.. Think it still works too. Maybe it's time I tried it again🤔 It had one of those turning knobs for skipping songs. I loved that since I could change to the middle of a CD really fast with it😝
And I also own a Sony 4K TV today.
I also have a Sony TV. Love those!
@@LennyFlorentine Brilliant picture and picture handling👌
Very well done!
That was Jason Alexander in The Watchman commercial. He is on the far left in the 3 shot
Sony AND Panasonic. Most of the time their moderately priced (mid-line) products made me very HAPPY. Feature rich, reliable, quality, well layed out (ergonomic), & attractive.
@justaudiohifi Ahh us artists would include the Sony Portapak, portable video recorder. It's introduction allowed portable video art production. Without the Portapak the creativity that you you see today in videos, music videos, and art would not have happened. When we got Portapaks at the Hartford Art School it was a time of alternative art creation in a new medium, not available previously.
I ran a Sony STR-DB930 for yrs, it carried the ES amps but not the ES price tag...
Sadly, Sony abandoned the DB series, went with cheaper amps, and subsequently lost market share...
I still have that STR-DB930, it still runs, but it's been retired for quite some time now...
In addition to quality, Sony's products have always looked sleeker and more high tech to me than other brands. And their logo has always looked classy and never needed to change "with the times", signifying quality and high technology.
At 9:03 is that a very young Kirstie Alley?
Had many sony products over the years, from headphones to TV's and cameras, and of course discmans lol. love all of it! 😃
That's awesome!
I have a Sony TA-E1000ESD pre-amp that I bought new back in 1982. Still works perfectly but it was retired last year because the Nakamichi PA1 power amp that I was using finally lost its front left channel. I figured as long as I am buying new, I should just buy a Multimedia receiver and bring my movie watching into the modern age with HDMI. The Sony pre-amp still fully works though. It was very innovative for its time but that was before HDMI even existed and S-video ports simply do not rise to the standard that HDMI 2.1 sets. I also have a Sony DTC-75ES DAT deck that still works perfectly and is still a part of my overall system. It does not get a lot of use these days, but I have a fairly large collection of live DAT tape recordings of myself and other club DJ's live sets from back in the day. So, it still has its use. Sony made some really innovative and quality equipment and the quality shows in the fact that these old pieces of hardware still work perfectly to this day.
Another great deep dive! I was hoping you would cover the Sony, Sony/Superscope battle. Yes to Sony and most of the rest of the world, there was Sony. But in the US naming and distribution was a hard line division. Anything audio tape and mics was Sony/ Superscope. Everything else was Sony direct, around Superscope. And you did not cover Sony's microphones! Sony introduced the tie tac mic. I still have an original sales sample of the ECM-77.
You also did not cover the Sony PC. You covered the mini-floppy they invented for it. But not the PC itself. It ran CP/M. I would sell them to small edit suites and in-house industrial video shops. Most did not have a biz PC yet. With the Sony PC they could get spreadsheet, database, word processing, could do scripts and accounting. Plus it had a "Gen Lock" accessory that could superimpose it's display over video. So they used it as a CG, title and graphics generator. But that might have been too far into Sony's Pro lines?
Thanks!
still my favorite company of all the time 💯👑
Sony Walkman a way to get out of reality while taking a really good walk it was great❤ I really enjoy your shows about what happened to these old stereo companies keep it up😊
Back in the 1970s, unless you were a stereo enthusiast or had one in the family, none of us had ever heard his favorite music in stereo high fidelity. Until Walkman!
That was a mouthful ...
Wonderfully informative . (Please lose the music fills)
Excellent
Thanks
STR -D 2020 Receiver. I still have it.
I have pretty much all the items you list in the 1980's and 90's :)
I still use a PS-X6 and a renovated and upgraded F570ES.
Sony Walkman WM-F10 & WM-F100 II, multiple sony ericsson phones and their gadget accessories such as only phones capable of AM radio receiving...then going and still using sony android phones today
Great Video!!
Glad you enjoyed it
The amount of research you do is amazing!
@@BenCabell thanks Ben!!
The cd changer in the trunk was controlled by the head unit. Not technically a remote control