Behind the beauty and fine mechanical of every Walkman in our hands, lies the golden touch of this man. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EptnZxuLj/
I didn't see anything in the post, tried looking him up and there's a lot of stories planted around the internet. I'm not sure what the purpose of the post is besides to ask cassette related questions?
Since I don't use Facebook, I read the article here [https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/0...r-reasons/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption]. The three new offerings are, well, not only sad but an insult to what was once the ultimate portable player, some of them reaching home deck quality. While I commend some of the vendors out there who have gone through tedious re-manufacture of some replacement parts, my bigger concern is what happens when the playback head is totally worn out? As far as I know, no one is making high quality playback heads anymore. That is not something you will be able to crank out from a resin 3D printer, CNC machine or through cast molding.
Akira Tanaka has posted on X six reasons why he believes that a walkman with media of the past is not possible to be produced today , I guess the Facebook discussion is about that. I posted an introduction for Akira Tanaka in the Walkman Designers thread : https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/walkman-designers.1276/page-7
