It was 36 years ago that the Sony Walkman brand appeared and subsequently ruled most of the 80s and early 90s, helping to popularize the cassette tape along the way. The subsequent Discman was able to take some of that momentum into the CD era, but by the early 2000s Sony had stumbled badly -- its proprietary formats with names like MiniDisc and ATRAC were relegated to niche status, crushed under the MP3 juggernaut that was Apple's iPod.
The NW-ZX2 isn't Sony's first attempt to resurrect the Walkman name, but it may come the closest to living up to the brand's glory days.
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