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they were withdrawn about a month ago.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

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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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.
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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.

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

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 :-)

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

iPod is slim and effeminate, not my style.


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Tim S Kemp wrote:

iPod is slim and effeminate, not my style.

You could get a couple of deep cycle leisure batteries, an inverter and a
Revox, and strap the lot to your back...


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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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