Hello everyone, After a long journey with vinyl records and CDs, digitizing any possible variant of an album I could put my hands on... and years of promising myself I'd never do the same for cassette tapes, here I am. I got into the hobby a couple months ago, starting with a nice sounding Sony WM-B19 with some issues. Some little issues that I easily fixed, before ruining some PCB traces. Long story short, after getting some tapes and some more and more, I figured out I might as well invest in nicer equipment (although the WM-B19 sounded great to me in the first place). I ended up acquiring a WM-D6C a couple weeks ago after finding an offer I just couldn't pass on. It turned to be the very 1st generation with a 5 digit serial number (22XXX). Yesterday again, I stumbled across an offer too good to be true, for a WM-D6 (also low serial number, 22XXX). Ended up taking it back home as well. The units are not (yet) perfect (I believe I could not ever find a visually nicer unit of the D6, and the D6C remains in great condition overall). The forum, its members and your general posts have been of great help to understand what the issues could be. Here I learned one should be cautions when using a DC adapter on a D6C, here I learned a D6 is prone to mute chip failure (which, I assume, is what in the span of a single day revealed to be an issue on my unit), etc. After some disappointments there and there with other models (thinking of a Sony WM-DD2, or a nice Toshiba KT4097 - both of which somehow decided to die in my hands), I chose a Sony WM-DDI for my daily use outside and inside. At home, until I can figure out how to fix my dead right channel on the D6C, I use that one from its line output connected to my active speakers and enjoy my albums mostly that way - rather than my LPs - and was pleased to find out some of them sounded simply incredible on tape (thinking of Alice In Chains' MTV Unplugged mainly - unbelievable presentation from the 1996 EU original cassette). I appreciate the members general guidance and (precious) knowledge, thankfully preserved and passed here particularly, and look forward to joining the community. See you!
Welcome, I love AIC, never saw the band but I did see Jerry Cantrell when he came here several times in the early 2000's with the Boggy Depot and Degradation Trip Tours. He was at First Avenue, the same place Prince's Purple Rain was filmed. I bought the Degradation Trip CD at the merch booth, it was wild, it looked just like a CD-R with no markings on it and maybe some extra unreleased songs.
