I just discovered this forum today and just had to peep, read, and sign up. I have a few hundred cassettes, and am 50+ years old. Had a full-size deck for a few years, but it died and I'm still living with the dead deck, hoping someone can repair it locally in India. (Story for another day.) I had used Walkmans (Walkmen? Walkpeople? ) in my college days, both cheap (Unisef) and quite good (Aiwa metal-body Dolby) ones, and I realised just a few years ago that this community is still active outside India, often with older members like I. And about 2-3 years ago, a very dear friend told me he wants me to relieve him of his old Walkman and old turntable. The deal was: if they work, I can do whatever I want with them, and if they don't, I can sell/throw/smash them. I got rid of the turntable (it was a Dual, high tracking force, not something I'd want) but the Walkman was a WM-D6C. My friend had obtained it from a friend in the US at considerable cost more than 25 years ago. It was absolutely clean, but wasn't working. I sent it to a repair guy to check, and he got it working without charging me a paisa -- probably something very simple. Playback and recording both work now, it behaves and looks great, but I don't know what's the state internally and when it'll fail. So I now want to keep my D6C alive, and maybe even pick up one or two more good Walkmans, Sony or otherwise, and learn about their maintenance. I play with other audio system components as a hobby: http://tcpip.dhandanought.org/audio (If the site gives you an error about being "insecure", it's just that the SSL certificate has expired and I need to renews it. The site is safe.) I'm known as "tcpip" on diyaudio.com in case any of you hang around there. Hoping to make new friends here.
Welcome, that Walkman is the one to have lately, it's a great model but some of our other members from India seem to have found some other really nice unique units over the last two decades in India. I think most members have more stereo equipment and love all things musical, feel free to post anything interesting.
my antivirus software won't let me get to http://tcpip.dhandanought.org/audio and i have no idea how to disable it... Welcome!!!
I pulled the site up on the wayback machine.... https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tcpip.dhandanought.org/audio
