All gone walkies
 

A couple of weeks ago I decided to replace my old Aiwa personal
cassette player (batteries had leaked - my fault). Easy, I thought -
I'll just nip into town and have a look in John Lewis and buy
something neat for £40 or so.

I was amazed - John Lewis no longer sell a single Walkman! So off I
went to my local Comet - I remember they had stacks of them a few
months ago. But they hadn't got any either. The salesman told me
they were withdrawn about a month ago.

In the end I got a very satisfactory Panasonic from Dixons - but even
they only had a small range of about half a dozen machines.

So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

Paul

All gone walkies
 

In article ,
Paul Edwards wrote:
So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

I was delighted to see the end of cassettes about 10 years ago when I went
over to MiniDisc...

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
Paul Edwards wrote:
So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

I was delighted to see the end of cassettes about 10 years ago when I went
over to MiniDisc...

Me too, and to avoid the car cassette player periodically deciding to
unwind the cassette inside itself.
--
Chris Morriss

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So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

Not a moment too soon.

The rest of us like a bit of treble with our music.

All gone walkies
 

Fleetie wrote:
So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

Not a moment too soon.

The rest of us like a bit of treble with our music.

Odd really, Cassette as a medium, home recorded for portable use, is OK.
I've had a couple of good cassette players (best was a panasonic one with
dolby B and C, and with reasonable tapes there was plenty of treble.

I have minidisc now for use in pocket trains, and a portable CD in my bag
for music in hotel rooms.

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Odd really, Cassette as a medium, home recorded for portable use, is OK.
I've had a couple of good cassette players (best was a panasonic one with
dolby B and C, and with reasonable tapes there was plenty of treble.

In the late 80s when cassette walkmans were at their most esoteric and
expensive, I owned the top of the tree (apart from the Sony WM-D6C, which
could hardly be called a "Walkman" in the sense of being small and
portable), and believe me, they all lacked proper treble.

I have minidisc now for use in pocket trains, and a portable CD in my bag
for music in hotel rooms.

I use a Minidisc too now, and it has treble.

YMMV of course.


Martin

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Fleetie pibbled:
So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

Not a moment too soon.

The rest of us like a bit of treble with our music.


It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite years
of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide a
worthwhile music source.

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Despite appearances, it is still legal to put sugar on cornflakes.
Strawberries are purely optional.

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"Triffid" wrote
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite years
of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide a
worthwhile music source.

Worthwhile for decorators with their paint-bespattered cassette/radio
boxes that get hauled from job to job, providing background music while
they paint and plaster at exhorbitant rates and **** in their
employers' wives' sinks; yes, I'm sure.

I'm not talking Nakamichis here; I'm talking portable music
reproduction devices.

Cassette devices confirming to such constraints have inadequate
treble, even to my 33-years-old ears.

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In article , Fleetie
writes

"Triffid" wrote
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite years
of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide a
worthwhile music source.

Worthwhile for decorators with their paint-bespattered cassette/radio
boxes that get hauled from job to job, providing background music while
they paint and plaster at exhorbitant rates and **** in their
employers' wives' sinks; yes, I'm sure.

How do you know?, seen 'em do it....

I'm not talking Nakamichis here; I'm talking portable music
reproduction devices.

Cassette devices confirming to such constraints have inadequate
treble, even to my 33-years-old ears.



--
Tony Sayer

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Tim S Kemp wrote:

Odd really, Cassette as a medium, home recorded for portable use, is
OK. I've had a couple of good cassette players (best was a panasonic
one with dolby B and C, and with reasonable tapes there was plenty of
treble.

I have minidisc now for use in pocket trains, and a portable CD in my
bag for music in hotel rooms.

....but you know you want an iPod really; you just won't admit it yet :-)