Where to find comparison of Portable Cassette Players?

[TakedownCA]

My girlfriend wants me to find a good cassette walkman. Other than iBuyer, where can I find a good site to compare walkmans? Thanks.

 

[IamDavid]

They still make cassettes?

 

[Poncherelli]

i would check amazon, they have a good deal of portable electronics, or you could go to bestbuy or something too probably.

 

[Muse]

<< They still make cassettes? >>



Yeah, that's the problem. You see, they don't sell as many these days, and they don't forsee profits if they make quality units. Used to be, not too long after they started making &quot;walkmen&quot; cassettes that you could get some really high end models. I had an Aiwa that had a cabled remote, fairly adequate tuner, all digital including feather-touch solenoid controled switches and some neat extras like track repeat. Unfortunately I put down my backpack and turned my back for a few minutes.

In the mid to late 80's you could find nice, compact and light Sharp models that had FANTASTIC tuner sections that were really sensitive and could adequately pick up weak and distant stations. I kept one alive for years but it finally crapped out.

I have a Sony now, let's see, a WM-465x or something like that, that I picked up around 2.5 years ago, the best that Circuit City had, for around $79, but nowadays all they have is junk - it's depressing. They have something that looks like it might be nearly as good (a Sony) at Circuit City, but I bet it isn't. But try and find a good tuner section in a cassette walkman these days, and you are probably wasting your time. And the depressing fact is that nowadays they all seem to come packaged tight as a drum in plastic and you can't even try them out.

I just hope my current Sony keeps working. I NEVER drop that sucker.

 

[tristramshandy]

Sony makes good models. Look for the aluminum alloy cases and try to avoid players that combine fm radio. Got a very nice sony walkman a few years back for about $85, but this is in Europe, where people still demand high quality cassette play-back.

 

[lenjack]

Try Text.

 

[Muse]

<< Sony makes good models. Look for the aluminum alloy cases and try to avoid players that combine fm radio. Got a very nice sony walkman a few years back for about $85, but this is in Europe, where people still demand high quality cassette play-back. >>



In the US you don't see cassette walkmen without AM/FM tuners. If you do, they are total junk, the cheapest of the cheap ($10 to $20). If I go to Europe, I will definitely keep my eyes open for a decent cassette walkman.

 

[tristramshandy]

Hey Muse, found the very one I bought on the web. Not bad for the price. The site looks okay (though I don't know anything about them). Cheers! -m

http://store.yahoo.com/1electronic/sonwmexwal2.html

 

[tristramshandy]

Hoowee! Check this one out -- fancy! This AAA site seems to have the other one for cheaper too.

http://www.aaaprice.com/sonywmex2000.html

 

[Gunbuster]

It allways made me mad how europe and asia had the super advanced metal body tape case sized walkmans, and the US had big dorky plastic no quality models.

Not a problem anymore sincee I dont use tapes