Best console technical spec design for its time?

[Aussie2B]

I have a couple Discman portable CD players that still work just fine. In fact, I use them more than my old iPod. My current phone gets the job done for mp3s, but I'll pull out the CD players when I just want to grab a CD off the shelf. I know a lot of people have gotten rid of all their CDs at this point, but I still really love my collection of game and movie soundtracks and drama CDs.

The CD made its debut in 1982, but CD players were too expensive for most consumers, and the discs themselves had sound quality issues early on thanks largely to recording engineers who were used to mastering LPs.

The funny thing is now there's the reverse problem. With vinyls coming back as this niche fad, my husband, who's an audio engineer, finds himself mastering vinyls occasionally now. But he often initially receives tracks that are compressed to hell and back and would make a needle jump around like crazy if they were mastered as-is, so he has to specifically request uncompressed tracks. Vinyl has physical limitations that just don't apply to CDs and other formats. The loudness war that started with Ricky Martin still has lasting effects to this day.