Oh christ, what's the point?  <throws pencil over shoulder>

This is brilliant

Michael I knew when you posted your collection (which I believe you only collect BOXED mint condition Walkman) we all must bow to your fervent passion showed in the most extraordinary Boxed collection of all collectors I know.   Like AgentOrange said.. "Toss pencil over shoulder" we give up.... The honor is yours.  Truly you are the "KING OF SONY" the ambassador into the future keeping Sony's 80/90's sound technology alive , new and working !!

We all look forward to when you have time to add some individual photos of the single boxed examples and Walkman for us all to enjoy.  Hats off to a Grand new member.

Side Note: when posting photos to the forum it reduces them to 100 kb thus we are not able to zoom in to see model #'s on boxes.

Sadly no my EX20 although complete with all accessories and box is not the serial numbered version.  It is mint though.   I too agree that the appearance is most elegant, the feel of it in the hand is pure class and luxury and the solid like a rock weight and build is awesome to have in ones hand.  Sadly to me the sonic excellence of this player lets it down although it is a very good sounding unit the high frequency performance for me is slightly lacking and the surround sound technology although innovative causes distortion of what you hear if player is turned up to any volume.  I have had two (sold one) and both exhibited these traits.   Am unsure if this is true statement of all EX20's.

I know you have a mind altering 5 of these all boxed.  I doubt if anyone else in world even has 2 boxed examples.   You truly have a thirsty passion for these little mechanical electrical marvels of engineering.

Haha! My sentiments exactly, i'm speechless.

Great to see some air jordans there Demiwang !

You have some nice units their. I did notice you have 2-4 of the same units?  Did you get them from a retail store, or someone who own one or clearance out?

Sony WM-FX5

Panasonic RQ-S45

Pansonic RQ-SX75

Sony MZ-RH1

Sanyo M-G4

Sony WM-F10II boxed

Aiwa HS-P09

Philips D6641 skyMASTER 3

Sony WA-33 Soundabout

I want that SANYO MG-110DT!!

Sony MZ-N10

Sony WM-FX50

Thank you John. Your praise to my collection make me proud.

I don't focus specially in boxed units, but when appears one very interesting I try to not loose the opportunity.

I focus on Dolby C, top-class or beautiful designed walkmans. Also a few rare or special edition.

One of the few boxed walkmans I'd like to have is the DD9, the AIWAs PX101, PX303 and PX505, but they are extremely rare and expensive.

BTW: I also have a D6C and a WM-EX20 boxed, both near mint, but still don't have photos. 

Excellent collection Demiwang, all boxed and mint or new. You have probably the biggest boxed collection of SONY units in the world!

As John said, there's a size limitation when uploading photos. A simple and easy way to avoid it is to upload the photo inside a ZIP file, so we can download and view it at full size.

Keep sharing photos... ;-)

Aiwa JX-3000 Gold

Sony NW-MS7 First Sony memory stick walkman

Toshiba KT-4177

Some very interesting complete packages here, I especially like the Phillips, never seen that before.

It really is great that so many of these boxed packages have survived, a real credit to you all. 

Although the understated DD boxes are clearly nice, the Sony Soundabout designs (i've seen two maybe three types) are the best for me. How often do you see such fantastic creations where the item in question is a design element, not the star, and it still works?

I have a few more, haven't even really started on AIWA's yet, as they are getting their own thread with a history leason, revisions changes, or common issue repair behind them. Just have to find time to dig out of boxes and take pictures, my favorites are the 80's ones, not shown offen working, as seen 701's or DD series done a million times already.

Figure cover a few unique interesting ones instead and maybe PCDP and DAT players/recorders some more coming later this week. Just haven't taken pictures let, as never shown. Some are going to be saved for weeks to months to come, as going to be feature in other threads and videos first and don't want to let the cat out of the bag yet!

I look forward to the DAT stuff

SANYO MG-34DT with Tuner Pack
OMG John that's it...my first walkman with Dolby....( I thought I was the king with that dolby logo flashing across the chassis ) If you ever want to part ways with the 34DT please keep me in mind!

John your "library of Walkman's" should be open to the public!! Extrodinary!!!!

Hi Chris,

I purchased this Blue 101 in a department store in downtown Paris, before my flight back to Toronto in '87.

I had a few cassettes in my bag (gifts) but no player so I headed down to Le Printemps (sorry if spelling is off). They had the black and red ones, but only 1 blue one left so I snagged it.

I listened to it on the plane ride home and after arriving I put away in a drawer because a new format caught my eye. The CD. I never really listened to it after that..it only has about 20 hours of use on it.

I still have the bill of sale and manual....

Retrodos, you have  not only have a beautiful collection, you have the ability to fix them and keep them functioning...that is worth it's weight in gold!

Nice story, as far as the blue 101. The minidisc is what did it for me, not the best sound when compare to CD, but for the go was fine. Then HI-MD came around and change that of course for the better, then made even DAT obsolete, due to DAT reliability problem. Had to buy the early MD when they came out, just really like the size with LCD stick remote and they were well builted.

To bad Sony found a way to effectively kills MD format, due to many copyright protection limitations, which later they remove, but was to late. Do like it replacement the SSR "Solid State Recorder" 96khz 24bit in your pocket with lower noise floor and long record times, plus very reliable, no more have to deal with DAT recorders breaking down every couple years and if outdoors sooner. One of the very few pieces of technology that improved over the years.

Very good topic. Well done agentorange

Then I'll show all my boxes:

I think of belongs here.

SONY WM-3EX  rare Excellent edition from WM-3 in velvet

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John, I am really overwhelmed by your larvish compliment. "King of SONY" reminds me of Michael Jackson, "King of POP". It is a title too big for me. ^_^

Recently, my collections keep growing as I found a lot of rare units, like wood boxed EX808HG, red velvet boxed WM-3EX, etc. Some of them are still in my friends hands who help me buy them. I am expecting their arrival.

I believe, as a keen walkman collector, you are buying opportunities, not only items. So if I have a chance to obtain the rare walkman I have loved, I would not let the chance go away. I would not hesitate to buy the second, the third one, or more. I do not worry there are too many of them.

Redundancy guarantees a sense of security. yet another one serves as a provision against unexpected damage, loss. sometimes, they are also a chance to swap for another walkman I do not have. collectors might not sell their collections, but might exchange them for other walkman they like.

And more importantly, some walkmans boast their assorted color versions. Like WM-DD has six colors, WM-EX1, HG included, has 5 colors, WM-EX7 has 4 colors.... My rule is to collect as many color versions of them as possible. Perfection means all colors of them.

some walkmans have a lot of editions all around the world, unlike WE01 which was only sold in Japan, and there are slight differences between different editions. For instance, I have 5 boxed TPS-L2, two are the early J1 edition without walkman logo on the body, one is sound-about version, yet another one is later version with walkman logo on the body, and a boys and girls printed on its box, J1 edition, and the last one is also later version, but US edition.

This diversity is also the case to my EX808HG. Paper boxed Japan edition, paper boxed US edition, wood boxed European edition...

colorful walkman....

The last question, where i got them. none of them comes easy. perhaps, each unit of my collection has a story behind it. But there is no walkman store nowadays. so i cannot just walk into a store and buy them. Collectors are always like scavengers, keep rooting around. But we love it. I remember a scholor once said "it brings more pleasure to pick up a pearl in an ash can than seeing a larger one in a jeweler's windows." That's it.

PS: regarding walkman stores, I have a story. 9 years ago, I was planning to buy several headphones in a walkman store. but unfortunately, my wallet got stollen on the road to that store. it was a huge loss of money, and even worse, I lost my ID, all bank cards, even my school library card. I did not sensed any wrong until I walked into the walkman store and found my wallet missing. right there, I was almost on the brink of going desperate. Then, the boss of that walkman store, very kind gentleman, helped to call the police to me and kindly gave a few bulks so that I could buy a bus ticket back to my university and a supper.  I reallly appreciated that boss and I still do now.  

Sony TCD-D8 DAT recorder walkman

Amazing retrodos, 4 AA batteries..for 4 hours of continuous recording is impressive! So was the price..$ 750.00

That's a serious investment for a portable DAT! Thanks for the post!

Sony SRF-HM20 FM/AM Walkman

Sony SRF-HM55 FM/AM walkman

Sony WM-FQ01 walkman

AIWA HS-T19A walkman

One thing digital tech bought us that I can say is much better is "SD recorders".  Now you can get 192khz 24bit PCM recordings, lower noise pre-amps, with around 50hrs battery life, that can fit in your pocket. DAT good sounding, but was nothing but a pain in the rear and expensive. To start transport was too fragile and would fail regularly, heads didn't have long life span and portables unit use smaller head, which had a few issues and didn't last as long. Battery life sucked 4hrs is not much when needed for major project. Alot of tapes stock were garbage, had quite a few that became sticky.

The only two portables units that were really good is Tascam DA-P1, great pre-amps and unit easy to service and reliable. Sony TCD-D10 pro, or pro II, used same transport as a Sony dtc-1000es and full size head, only problem is finding one that works. I personally won't use one for a serious project anymore, as SD recorders are much cheaper to run, better pre-amps and more reliable. DAT and minidisc make for a good collectible piece of history.

One on the bottom Sony TCD-D10 pro, cost $2600 back in it's day. Now a Sony PCM-M10 can be had for $249.99, is also much better overall. 

I got a boxed Sony MZ NH1 somewhere

can I post that?

Decide to redo all older pictures, so took old pictures down for now. It coming with quite a few others, but with much better pictures, as camera use back then was crap and no comparison to newer pictures and have four 701's now guess what color, exclude sterling silver and black?

DAT's a nice collection Retrodos. See what I did there?

I'm here all week.

Sony WM-615 New Walkman Logo Special Edition.

Sony WM-F701C

WM-EX7 Sony Walkman un-boxed

Non standard headphone socket arsery aside, that 701 looks fantastic with form following function. Retrodos, a boxed mint example, like your others does you credit