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Vintage Sony Walkman Headphones Return as the MDR-3R USB-C and I’m Stoked About Them

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Vintage Sony Walkman Headphones Return as the MDR-3R USB-C and I’m Stoked About Them

The $60 wired on-ear retro Walkman headphones sound better than I thought they would (and even come with orange and blue earpads).

In recent months, you may have heard people talking about the cultural renaissance of wired earbuds and headphones. Riding on that resurgence, Bose recently released its USB-C Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds and now Sony has a $60 USB-C version of its iconic MDR-3 Walkman on-ear headphones, called the MDR-3R. A Stranger Things version is also available for $20 more.

Aside from the fact that Sony has replaced the 3.5mm plug with a USB-C connector and added an inline remote with a microphone for making calls, these are the same MDR-3L2 headphones that debuted alongside the original Walkman TPS-L2 portable cassette player in 1979. One set of orange and one set of blue foam earpads are included, and the MDR-3R has the same 23-millimeter dome drivers as the original MDR-3L2 headphones.

I remember the first time an adult let me try her new Walkman TPS-L2, back when I was a kid. I even remember the cassette that was in the Walkman: Supertramp’s Breakfast in America (I got hooked on The Logical Song). While I wasn’t exactly an audio critic at the time, I was blown away by the hi-fi experience produced by such a small device and lightweight headphones. I eventually got a later-generation cassette Walkman — I believe it was the WM-F77, which was also equipped with an AM/FM radio.

What was appealing about the MDR-3 headphones is the same thing that’s appealing about the MDR-3R headphones.


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