hi members,

I'm back again to show what are the most beautiful players in red, mostly made with metal. for me those are some of the most vibrant and exciting players. As you may know, red is the most vibrant color, that is often associated to guilt, sin, passion, and anger, as stated in the Wikipedia (link).

As passion for walkmans in my main fuel for writing this, I thought it would be nice to see some of the most vibrant red players toghether.

they are the following:

- AIWA P02, P07, P08 & G08

- AIWA G09, J09

- SONY WM-2

- SONY WM-DD, DD30

- SONY WM-30, 109

So, here comes the AIWA family:

And here, all AIWA and SONY models:

For me, the most vibrant red here is the AIWA G09, followed by the P08 & G08. The red G09 is incredibly powerful, and difficult to capture in a photograph even for me, that I'm specialized in precise color reproduction if photography. I was very surprised that this is probably one of the most intense red I ever seen in a material object (not in a screen). I can only think in a tulip being backlit byt the sun as a close red. Really impressive. 

Any other model that you consider to be undoubtely here?

Hope you enjoy!

Hugo your photos are superb clarity !!  Ah now here comes the forum seeing RED

Red most certainly is a color of deep Passion and on Walkman often the metallic paint on metal players can be stunning.  Here are a few of my favorites in my collection.   Afraid so many of mine are in boxes that have to use single photos taken when I bought them.

THE SANYO JJP4 in Brilliant vibrant red metallic and chrome.  This model is also the OFFICIAL SMALLEST WALKMAN EVER MADE.  Some time ago we did a EXHAUSTIVE analysis to find the top 20 smallest.

Competition Link

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Official Results Link

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SANYO JJP4

As you can see different lighting brings out very different shades of red and level of metallic.  Bright Sun, Flash, Incandescent and indirect sunlight.

TOSHIBA KT-4055

I have this model but at the moment cant find pictures of mine.

THE FIRST SANYO the M5050 in the extremely rare RED METALLIC.  Nearly all production was in Black.  Truly stunning and one of the first BRIGHT colored walkman to be made.

SANYO M5050

Here is the FATHER of clones as there are more variations of this excellent overbuilt early walkman sold often under mfg. names we have never heard of.  I have 6 of these and I know Auto Reverser could march a endless stream of these .. they follow him around his house as AO once quipped.

WESTMAN JC-8119

Although the plastic red Walkman can not match the glossy or satin metallic finishes on metal there are however some very rich red colored Walkman some with unique metallic impregnated into the plastic.  

JVC  CX-5 (sold mine in photo to Retrodos) and CX-F5  

OK OK I am so gonna be kicked around on this one since my first Topic post since back was about the NOVELTY/Curious Oddity MP3 Walkman.  WELL one must admit this is on RED attention getting hanging on your belt Walkman... LOL

COCA COLA WALKMAN

The Sanyo M4440 in a deep burgundy very metallic for plastic finish.

SANYO M4440

The AIWA LX200 one of their price concious yet reasonably decent sounding players in Red metallic that has pinkish saturation and metallic ( a Lady's Walkman if you will ).

Apology it is boxed away and I could not find picture of just this Walkman up close on my PC.

AIWA LX200

Thanks John!

Nice additions, specially that red Sanyo P4. Beautiful!

And the CocaCola one is funny! Red by definition!

Awesome Reds.  I do have a couple red walkmans myself.  My favorite being the P02mkII in my profile pic.  Gives me an idea for another thread, Yellow walkmans that aren't the Sports walkmans.  Then again, I haven't seen any other yellows except my Aiwa HS-P02.

Thanks for sharing and like always...Great Pictures.

I have a few reds and here they are

JVC CX-F5

Sanyo M-G18D

Sony WM-102

Sony WM-EX70

Sony WM-EX66

Well, and here there are your corrected versions ;-)

I add two red more that I forget to. They are both extremely rare.

The first is the EX-1 in matte finish:

Not the coolest red ever, but very rare indeed.

Next is the also ultra-rare WM-702 in glossy red:

And here ends my metallic red collection. but I also have a few red walkmans more that I didn't include from the beginning, as they are plastic models.

they are also very rare. One is the Toshiba RT-V600, a sports walkman:

I have mine for sell. It's boxed and completely new, never used (NOS). If you are interested in it, please drop me a PM.

Another is the also new and boxed Hitachi CP-35:

In a beautiful red glossy finish. I have this also new, never user and boxed as I explained a few months before in the "for sell" section of this forum.

Last one is probably the rarest of all: the Sharp TV10:

That I think is one of the coolest walkmans ever made. Mine is completely new, never used and boxed. It seems that it needs a new belt but the TV panel doesn't work :-(

hope you like them!