Sony adopted color with abandon in the 90s and 00, but back in the mid 80s they were more reserved, usually offering only a rare, red option when they offered anything except black, silver, or gunmetal. This example I spotted on eBay:
It’s a rare item, but that price is still ridiculous (and has dropped nearly $500 since it was first posted). The D-10 is the same model I bought new in black in 1987 and paid something like $350 (a little over $1000 in today’s currency).
I have another black one now, and I was kind of surprised when I got it’s such a sensitive little flower. You scarcely breathe on it and it skips. And it most certainly does NOT like CDRs (not surprising because those weren’t even a thing until several years later). Still, of all the old school Sony players, it remains my favorite, if only for the nostalgia factor.
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