What is The Latest addition to your Collection?

here is mine:


Hello Kitty! the only thing missing is a 'story' because usually there is a story behind each collectible. For the life of me, I do not remember or understand why did I buy this Discman. Cheap and cute, probably that was it!
Now revived, and she is also NAUGHTY: there is no way I will be able to fix LCD screen: LCD was connected to the mainboard with a Scotch tape with printed graphite lines, after 15 years tape lost its stickiness and just fell off:

 

Wow that is cool! Looks almost like a cookie!

 

It's nice ... but those graphite contacts are the bane of many

 

Just got this nice silver mini Sanyo to go with the red and black ones I already have. It was in a bit of a state cosmetically but nothing I couldn't clean off.

 

The problem is how to connect to the LCD. I presume you are both aware of this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255144164508?epid=1876271000&hash=item3b67c6fc9c:g:t9QAAOSw56NaJEiV
I bought some to repair an iPod Touch but couldn't get it to work. In fact it was one of those repairs where I started off with a small fault and ended up putting the thing in the WEE. Of course you couldn't do that with Kitty and I presume she still plays CDs.

 

I picked these 2 up recently. The FH-209 cost the price of a courier to collect and deliver it thanks to a top guy on Boomboxery, and the MHC-2500 was £30, a local pick up from a guy on Facebook market place. Both need re-belting, which I've attempted to do, but I may have to try and get the proper belts or some better quality ones, as neither are working 100% correctly.



I also scored an FH-313 with a CDP-S37 cd player for £40 off eBay. I have a real love for Sony FH and MHC hi-fi units, just something about them that's cool.....now just to find somewhere to put them!

 

I bought this week the Sony MZ-G750 and R500 (and WN-EX662) as a package deal. Great texture on the grey metallic G750 recorder with radio, a bit disappointed though that ‘the radio’ is all in the remote control.
It is in fact a R700 with a different coat of paint with a beefed up remote.

 

Sony TCD-D8 like new
Works perfect.
I tested it once then waited to get some Molykote BR2 Plus Grease to use on the guide rails.
Helps to prevent the pins popping out.

 

a Tascam PortaTwo:



i have allready overhauled the complete cassette-unit (belt-replacement and a fix on the head-carrier, wich is allways necessary on those units), just have to find the right idler for the right spool (play).
allways wanted one of those…

 

It looks great! Reminds me of the WM-D3 a bit, the ports on the side that is.

 

Did you buy these because of the recording quality or how versatile it is? It looks interesting, and for sure when restored properly very functional.

 

well, i‘m playing in bands since ages and did a lot of recordings ever since. in the 80‘es those thingies were far to expensive to buy - far over my budget. wirh changing to the much more easy-to-handle digital-recorders, they came out of fashion (there was a time, were you couldn‘t even give them away to save your live). nowadays, analogue recording is coming more and more into fashion again. a thing with those is, that they are not very versatile. you cannot play a cassette, that you recorded on this unit, on any other cassette-player, because you use all four tracks for one direction.
anyway, the recording quality is astonishing good, the mixer anyway ( i didn‘t record too much yet as the tape transport in play isn‘t 100% reliable yet due to the old idler).
all in all, first impression of the mechanics is, that it‘s solid quality (not with the solid impression of a rtr) but not made forever, after doing some mechanical improvements it should do for another few years.
what i‘m curious is, how good the dbx noise-reduction will work… i‘ll keep you informed

 

Hey @Jorge this retro Hello Kitty thing is huge in Japan. I know a few female Japan lovers who would just about kill for your CD player to add more kitty cuteness in their lives.

For myself. I acquired a cheap Discman D250 which has had the mandatory middle gear replacement now and is working. The Aiwa HS- J500 is full of trace problems from corrosion on the PCB from battery issues. I think it will be fixable however and cosmetically pretty good so worth the hours to find its problem with autoreverse kicking in when pressure is applied to the PCB in one place in particular. One of the issues with Aiwa PCB's is they flex because they are too thin so if they do not fit neatly back in place after surgery they play up with contact issues.

 

Every aspiring musician wanted one of these in the 1980s and 1990s, but as you say they were expensive.
Some guy called Noel Gallager actually got one. I wonder what he did using it
Read this for more details
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/ar...-the-four-track-as-the-portastudio-powers-on/

At the same time as making my own synthesizer, one project I thought about was whether you could make one using a four track head from an autoreverse Walkman or car deck.

 

The DBX I am interested in, it only made it to 2 Walkmans ever?
Always wondered how these 4 track recorders would perform.
I saw a portable (Akai?) 4 track cassette recorder for sale recently, but since there was little information about the technical state I did not pursue.
Keep us posted!

 

This issue has been withholding me from buying the ultra thin Sony MiniDisc player MZ-E10.
The PCB is very thin and apparently flexes when the player is twisted under pressure of.. well carrying it around in your pocket.
Did Sony and Aiwa produce these PCBs in one factory?
Years ago there was a collector that attempted to collect 50 (!) of these units, but he gave up at 41. Quite an achievement nevertheless.
While doing so he became an expert and had to fix quite a few, amongst others due to the fragile PCB.
See the Sony Insider thread for more pictures by this collector: https://forums.sonyinsider.com/topic/28358-take-apart-my-mz-e10-for-maintain-the-system/

 

Besides recording some great tracks on it, he most likely tried to hand it over with great velocity to a certain family member, who was in the same business venture at one time.

 

Thanks for the hint! I found 2 DBX players in old threads so far here: TEAC PC-7RX and PANASONIC RQ-J20X.
John states the following: "Only other dbx player [than the TEAC] was the Panasonic RQ-J20X which I also have."
Preliminary conclusion: only 2 Walkmans every made with DBX.