Hello, everyone. First of all, I'm glad you can click on my self-introduction. I am a post-00s male student from Zhejiang, China (emmm can't be considered a male, after all, he has been an adult for several years). The Walkman came to mind recently when I dug out the cassette player I used to play English textbooks in elementary school. To be honest, as a post-00s, I know very little about tape and CD players. And recently I was following a blogger on Bilibili (China's equivalent of YouTube) repairing Walkman, which made me marvel at the mechanical charm of 30 or 40 years ago. I would also like to own my own tape Walkman. There are some perfect machines in China's second-hand market, but there are also many machines with traces of use. Usually, the former is expensive and the latter is cheap. As I don't have much money, I want to get familiar with each Walkman by myself, and then choose one suitable for me in the second-hand market. So here I am. I hope to learn the history and maintenance experience of Walkman from the bigwigs and Walkman lovers around the world. And please bear with me when I'm new. Thank you very much. (Because my English is not good, so I use Google to speak Chinese translation of the article. There may be deviations that I can't catch. Sorry for that.)
你好，Awei_tank，欢迎来到stereo2go论坛。 我把你的信息翻译成英文，以便更好地理解。 -----> your message (translated) Hello everyone. First of all, I'm glad you clicked on my self-introduction. I'm a post-00s male student from Zhejiang, China (emm can't be considered male, after all, I've been an adult for several years). I recently came across the cassette player I used to play my English textbooks in elementary school and thought of Walkman, and frankly, as a post-00s student, I know very little about cassettes and CD players. And recently, I followed a blogger on Beili Beili (China's equivalent of YouTube) who restored a Walkman, which made me marvel at the mechanical appeal of 30 or 40 years ago. I would love to have my own tape Walkman. There are some perfect machines on the Chinese used market, but there are also many with signs of use. Usually the former are expensive and the latter are cheap. Since I don't have a lot of money, I wanted to familiarize myself with each Walkman and then pick the one that was right for me on the used market. So here I am. I hope to learn the history and repair experience of Walkman from the big guys and Walkman lovers around the world. Please bear with me when I am new. Thank you very much. (Because my English is not good, so I use Google to say the Chinese translation of the article. There may be a deviation, I can't see it. Sorry.) So I translated this article in Chinese using Google speak. There may be deviations that I can't catch. (Sorry.) So I translated this article in Chinese using Google speak. There may be some deviations that I can't catch. (Sorry.) Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Thank you. I think it was my mistake that led me to upload the Chinese version of the article. Now I have it in English. Thank you for your kindness.
Welcome A thread I started about the last tape Walkmans https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/the-last-tape-walkman-s.5362/ Not surprisingly, by that time they were all being made in China (as are the various tape2mp3 units still available on Amazon). I wonder if they were for export only or if they got sold in China as well. One reason I ask is that newer units are less likely to need belts replacing etc. There is over 30 years between the newest and oldest tape walkmans. Regarding CDs, last night I was looking at a 40 year old CD player on eBay. Surprising to think CD has been around so long.
