{"id":49522,"date":"2026-11-07T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/sonys-1979-walkman-headphones-are-back-this-time-with-usb-c\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:34:59","slug":"sonys-1979-walkman-headphones-are-back-this-time-with-usb-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/sonys-1979-walkman-headphones-are-back-this-time-with-usb-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s 1979 Walkman headphones are back. (This time with USB-C)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \t\t \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tSony&#8217;s iconic 1979 Walkman headphones return as the MDR-3R (same colorful ear pads and everything). Very cool\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>It was 1979, and suddenly it was possible to take your favorite music with you wherever you went. Sony\u2019s first Walkman, the TPS-L2, marked the start of a revolution. For those of us who were there, those slim headphones with their colorful ear pads remain a real trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p>Now, almost half a century later, the MDR-3 headphones are making a comeback as the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=111346X1569483&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https:\/\/electronics.sony.com\/audio\/headphones\/headband\/p\/mdr3r-s&#038;xcust=2-0-3279098-1-0-0-0-0&#038;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3279098\/the-classic-headphones-from-1979-are-making-a-comeback-with-usb-c.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-subtag=\"2-0-3279098-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"sony\" target=\"_blank\">MDR-3R.<\/a> Thankfully, Sony hasn\u2019t tried to modernize away their original charm.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3279098\/the-classic-headphones-from-1979-are-making-a-comeback-with-usb-c.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Sony&#8217;s iconic 1979 Walkman headphones return as the MDR-3R (same colorful ear pads and everything). Very cool It was 1979, and suddenly it was possible to take your favorite music with you wherever you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1797,1990,36],"class_list":["post-49522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-audio","tag-headphones","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}