Sony Stops Making Cassette Walkmans in Japan

[geofry]

This just in SONY stopped making walkmans!

This just in NO ONE CARES!

 

[d-block]

I ran across one of those the other day in the garage, still worked too.

 

[RabidFace]

Loved my Walkman Handed down from my brother, but nothing was better. But then you were high livin' if you had an anti-skip Walkman. Try running with a regular portable cassette player.

Then went to my portable CD player that had no ant-skip protection besides an anti-skip base that attached to the CD player (still skipped horribly on bumpy roads regardless), which was for your dash. Then the rest of my portable history, is history.

But, as for the article, YES, a lot of underdeveloped countries still use cassettes daily. They are cheap, can record things without a computer, and again, are cheap. Gone are the days of "High Speed" dubbing 😀

Happy Golden Birthday to me!

 

[RabidFace]

Stupid HTML and greater/less than signs Cut off my:

24 on the 24th

 

[TheWhiteRose000]

~is shocked~
Cassettes players were still being made till now?

 

[Guest]

Cant believe it really, is that after all these yrs they finally stop making them, at least for one market. Im trying to find another one of their Walkmans but they are in limited amounts as well. And alot newer, but probably not the newest though before like modern mps players. Idk, sony has made alot of different things that the US markets dont quite like or aquire as much in interest.

 

[thillntn]

I had a sony walkman in mid nineties.I could pop in new aa's and go and go, never lost any features like current $ony products. those were the days

 

[mr_tuel]

I sorta miss the days when a stereo system consisted of several discrete components: the receiver, the tuner, the turntable, the cassette deck, the equalizer, and the CD deck/changer for more modern setups. Can't forget the large floor speakers you'd have flanking the sides! I almost want to build one just for the heck of it now...

 

[alyoshka]

Why For the "Heck of it ". Even today, individual components are the best thing to get and also the most expensive.
For all Audiophiles, I barely know one that doesn't have an independent deck for every thing.....
None of us, who really dig music, ever vouch for an all in one piece of crap, it's just not the quality a guy would want.
Although the so called music lovers these days prefer iPods and Mp3 players, but, for home use nothing compact can beat the pleasure of a good 15K system with absolutely gr8 Martin Logans ...

 

[eddieroolz]

A very long-lived technology indeed. I still have hundreds of casettes at home (although unused for the last 10 years).

 

[wild9]

I love the sound you get off cassette tape (an analogue form of media for anyone that isn't familiar with it). You could also saturate the tape, i.e. push the record levels into the red especially if you had a decent Chrome or Metal tape..digital? No such option; it either records or just clips the moment the it saturates unless you have a really good microphone circuit.

I still like the sound you get off tape, compared to the best that digital can offer. It's a different medium, and a different sound-stage, even if you play the same source material. I also have fond memories of using a walkman to load games into the ZX Spectrum computer Guys, remember how you could get the games to work by altering the equalizer 😉 Then there were those bright, vivid adverts long before the days of political-correctness..where's my flux capacitor, I wanna go back.

 

[wild9]

In terms of sound quality I only ever like the early Sony models (quality of engineering was incredible). In latter years I found a lot of their walkmans to be flat-sounding, and not loud enough. After owning (and breaking) countless walkmans I would say that the best one's in terms of sounds were those from Aiwa. They just seemed to sound so bright and energetic, great for endless days on the beach listening to the new romantics..

 

[guanyu210379]

Good bye mr. Cassette Walkman.
You have lighted up my days for more than 20 years.
You was there almost anywhere I went.
I know that I have left you for CD-man and mp3-man since about 10 years, but you have kept me company during childhood.
I guess this is it.
This is goodbye for good.

Sincerely yours,


Ex-Walkman Fan

 

[kartu]

Sony makes excellent MP3 walkman's, priced roughly as ipods, but without restrictions (you can copy anything to from device unlike with apple) and the need to install software on your PC (works like an USB device).

8xx and 1xxx series being the most notable ones.

 

[mchuf]

[citation][nom]JerseyFirefighter[/nom]"I usually got more than 24hrs on my walkman, it'd provide me battery for more than a whole week, with several hours of listening per day."Thats because most of the time you were listening you were flipping the tape over and hitting fast forward to rewind the other side.[/citation]

Not if you bought a premium version that had auto-reverse.

 

[ronch79]

To me, the news isn't "They're gonna stop making it already."

It's "They're still making these things in 2010."

 

[Hupiscratch]

In Brazil we used to call it K7 because it has the same pronounce in Portuguese as cassette in English.

 

[cookoy]

really good product. well they're stopping production in Japan but not in China. so there's still hope for the old folks with loads of cassette tapes.

 

[PLATTERMAN]

I had a Aiwa all metal cased one that was built like a tank, had all the bells and whistles auto reverse AM/FM radio, recorded too. Still have the Aiwa HR-SO5 FM headphones that are small and compact.

 

[leaded gas only]

Back when I was in the electronics business people would bring that junk in for service. We would try to reason with them and say "Look, you can replace this for $35.00"
Then they would say "You can't get a Walkman for that!"
"Well, you can just Walkman out the door with that junk then" was usually the service managers response.