All this talk of replacing capacitors - great information from Plop here - has spurred me on to look at my Aiwa CS-J1 again. I went through replacing the electrolytic capacitors a while back on mine, where some where leaking and also the electronics made the oscillating  / charging increase of tone noise redolent of faulty capacitors. Anyway thats all sorted but all it needs for is a new headphone socket (PCB mounting). This is one where the inner of the jack is shiny metal and the surround that joins to the walkmans' case is plastic. Does anyone have one of these they could sell me or provide details of where I could get spare parts (I've tried CPC, ebay etc).

Hey it's great that I've managed to motivate you to change your capacitors on your CS-J1.

How about sharing with us what values are on the CS-J1, so that others can order the parts in readiness for changing out theirs?