DrBenway
Headphoneus Supremus
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I just went to the Sonystyle website to see if I could order an SRF-59 pocket radio. I was greeted with a line of text that read "no longer available."
This is very sad to me, as it seems virtually certain that this epochal product has been discontinued. For well over 10 years, I owned one after another of these fantastic pocket radios. I have never found a better one, and I don't expect to.
The SRF-59 was, first of all, a wonderful sounding AM/FM radio. Reception was superb, and stereo separation was impressive. The whole thing was about half the size of a pack of cigarettes. It paired beautifully with PortaPros.
And it was completely, unapologetically analog. Tuning was via a thumb-wheel, as was volume control. It ran -- literally for days -- on a single AA battery.
All this for $15.
OK, call me old and irrelevant, but it kills me that there is no longer room in this gadget-mad world for such a simple, elegant, effective product. But let's be real. It didn't display pictures of your cat or video of your wedding (and a freakin' radio really should, huh?) It didn't surf the net. It didn't tell you where to find a bathroom, and it didn't cook breakfast. Who needs such a useless thing?
It was just a brilliant radio, nothing more and nothing less. Sigh.
This is very sad to me, as it seems virtually certain that this epochal product has been discontinued. For well over 10 years, I owned one after another of these fantastic pocket radios. I have never found a better one, and I don't expect to.
The SRF-59 was, first of all, a wonderful sounding AM/FM radio. Reception was superb, and stereo separation was impressive. The whole thing was about half the size of a pack of cigarettes. It paired beautifully with PortaPros.
And it was completely, unapologetically analog. Tuning was via a thumb-wheel, as was volume control. It ran -- literally for days -- on a single AA battery.
All this for $15.
OK, call me old and irrelevant, but it kills me that there is no longer room in this gadget-mad world for such a simple, elegant, effective product. But let's be real. It didn't display pictures of your cat or video of your wedding (and a freakin' radio really should, huh?) It didn't surf the net. It didn't tell you where to find a bathroom, and it didn't cook breakfast. Who needs such a useless thing?
It was just a brilliant radio, nothing more and nothing less. Sigh.