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walkman.archive - 2010-09-04 14:26

Hi everyone,

I decided to post some photos of my young collection. I did a small test on a previous post to try posting photos. I hope they could be seen well.

My interest is on walkmans that were special by any feature, design or special editions. I specially like those models that were: "world's first ..." or "world's one and only ..."
Also, I focus specially on Sony and Aiwa and a very few panasonic.
As my work is related to photography, I tried to shoot some nice images.

One of my favorites is the Aiwa HS-JX505, a well-known model:

Another one I like a lot is the rare Sony DX100, which I've seen any photos on the Internet. It's a professional walkman and one of the fews with dolby C:

The Aiwa J600 is a old beauty, with equalizer and glossy finish:

The Sony EX-20 anniversary is full metallic and is very thin

Their buttons are quite strange: they allow a kind of morse: one clic to play, two for FF, three for REW, etc... (you can see the code printed above "operation")

And the beautifulness of the EX-5, with it's unique mirror, another anniversary model that loads the tape perpendiculary

walkgirl - 2010-09-04 14:49

Jup, those are nice pictures and walkmans!

litfan - 2010-09-04 15:14

Beautiful stuff. I bet the agent is looking?

gregorybotha - 2010-09-04 22:04

Yeah, great pics and great walkmans.

thelion - 2010-09-05 08:39

Cool, Very nice Walkmans indead, But where is the boodo Khan?

toocool4 - 2010-09-05 12:27

God that brings back memories seeing a picture of the Aiwa HS-JX505. I use to have one, in fact I had quite a few Aiwa I had the HS-JX303, HS-JX505, HS-JX707, HS-JX909 and HS-PX1000 the one with the graphic equalizer on the front.
I had a few other ones that I cannot remember.

The BBE / the DSL circuit really work well together to give a good sound.

I can’t remember is the HS-JX505 the one that talked?

One thing about these Aiwa’s was the recording they made were next to useless, except the HS-PX1000 which was playback only.

plop - 2010-09-05 15:47

Both the JX707 and JX909 had the Voice Navigation.

toocool4 - 2010-09-06 01:51

Thanks plop i could not remember which one's had the voice navigation, Aiwa did it long before Apple aye! Apple claimed to be the first, Apple doing what they do best selling people what has already been done then claiming it's new.

walkman.archive - 2010-09-06 14:48

quote:
Originally posted by TheLion:
Cool, Very nice Walkmans indead, But where is the boodo Khan?

Dear thelion, as we are in contact by email, you know that I recently added a boodo Khan to my collection, but it's still coming home. I hope in less than 2 weeks I could receive it :-)
I will photograph it and post the photo here when I do it :-)
Anyway, thanks all for the comments. I'll try to post more photos soon

david - 2010-10-01 13:14

quote:
Originally posted by toocool4:
Aiwa did it long before Apple aye! Apple claimed to be the first, Apple doing what they do best selling people what has already been done then claiming it's new.

yeah next Apple will make their earphones wireless with bluetooth and claim that it's new even though we've had "wireless" headphone system since the early 80's. And guess what, that was Aiwa's too. The HS-P2 CassetteBoy, FMT-1 and the HR-S01 together created that wireless system.
http://www.pocketcalculatorsho...a/graphics/fmt-1.jpg

Now I don't know if that was the first but I'm sure it was one of the first.

Of course Sony produced their Wireless Walkmans in the late 80's. I don't own any, so I'm not really sure how well they work.