Sony ceased radios / boomboxes production? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Hydrawerk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2025, 10:57:41 pm
content: Hello, is anybody familiar with Sony? It looks like they ceased production of radios. Most of them are out of stock. Or what is going on? Please see attached screenshots.https://www.sony.de/boomboxes-radios-portable-cd-players/dab-radios?cpint=boomboxes-radios-portable-cd-players_product_finder_medium-ProductFinder--responsivegrid_initial_productfinder_3https://www.sony.at/boomboxes-radios-portable-cd-players/dab-radios?cpint=boomboxes-radios-portable-cd-players_product_finder_medium-ProductFinder--responsivegrid_initial_productfinder_3https://www.sony.co.uk/boomboxes-radios-portable-cd-players/dab-radios?cpint=boomboxes-radios-portable-cd-players_product_finder_medium-ProductFinder-en_GL-responsivegrid_initial_productfinder_3

author: Hydrawerk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2025, 04:01:59 pm
content: So nobody is interested in Sony? Well, this company was quite famous back in 2005 or so... It was the Apple of early 2000s. Just added a random Sony boombox that every teenager dreamed of!

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2025, 07:26:15 am
content: it may be a lack of interest in new musicI noticed myself I am not excited about music lately, and I recently found thishttps://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/07/30/0143228/study-finds-new-pop-music-does-all-sound-the-sameThe 'frontier' aspect of it kinda goes away when everyone is making 'safe choices' or just plagiarizing each other all the time that makes the hobby less appealingMaybe its like how hollywood got stuck on superhero movie, and delusions about the quality of computer generated stuff. Some of it is greed and some of it must be something along the lines of feeling smart because you think you figured out how to beat nature or something lolseems to be one of those infallible pro 'rules of thumb' that was supposed to be the answer to life, the universe and everything else and turned out to sound really good but end up being bunk, and maybe big business (which needs to make some kind of silly metrics to be compatible with the crazy world of speculative investing, they can't get fronted money unless they have some kinda 'proof')I would not be surprised if there was stock-broker-esque business sound marketing and sales analysts making creative decisions for musicians nowadays based on psuedo-technical (numbers and fake units based) mumbo jumbo... I assume the cultural aspect gets thrown off the bus.haha, probably needs to pass a AI analysis before its approved for a label now?I am starting to think media is a bit like food, ultra processed is bad for you, like eating red dye #5, yellow dye #60 with hydrogenated oils, bromine based emulsifiers etc

author: watchmaker
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2025, 11:38:24 am
content: We have 3 1970 Panasonic radios and a 1990 NAK TM1/TM2; all tuned to 99.5 which is Classical Radio Boston. Saturday nights are live BSO concerts. But we got rid of all our "audiophile" stuff (Polk speakers, Thorens TT, etc) when we moved as well as our 48 inch TV. Simplify.As for Sony, how can they compete against smart phones and computer streaming? And I think boomboxes lost their appeal as status symbols.

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2025, 12:24:38 pm
content: Quotethere always has been

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2025, 01:23:15 pm
content: Quote from: watchmaker on March 09, 2025, 11:38:24 amI mean you are competing with a acoustically small device with a 1 inch speaker that costs $1500 and was released 3 months ago, how could some cheap thing be better?I had someone take out a smart phone, put it on a bench and try to tell me it sounds better then a ordinary speaker systemI got a feeling they have some very powerful advertisers to try to convince people that it finally freed them of the burden of having to own actual speakers, otherwise it would be factored into 'is the phone really worth it price?"