Let me know if you'd like to see me attempt to repair any or all of these. From what I've seen changing the belts on Walkman's can be everything from simple to extremely difficult. Also let me know in the comments about your experience with portable audio cassette / CD or other types. VIDEO INDEX 0:00 What's Inside? 1:20 The Lot of Walkman's 2:14 Sony WM-FX33 5:20 Sony WM-FX277 9:36 Sony WM-FX403 14:40 Sony Sports WM-FS220 20:18 Sony WM-AF64 24:40 Conclusion Shop eBay for Vintage Walkmans (affiliate link): ebay.us/karw0h
most if not all was thrown away just because of the belts, nothing to putting new one in, auto directional was a little tricky like old gm delco and ford motor craft factory head units, good luck finding belts for any cassette/8 track belts now, hope that helps, I remember when RadioShack started selling them and the disc-man roflmoao
@19:53 wiggle the tape/radio selector switch, most would get dirty or moisture get to them, moisture part from leaving in car or on porch lmoao or someone messed with tape head adjustment
I had own 3 of these EPIC TIMES back then on my way to high school bumping to and on a transit bus line :) I miss The Good Guys store and Circuit City :(
had a wm-fx403 as a kid, this video reminded me I still had it in the attic and when I opened it it still had an old mixtape I threw together in the deck 😂
I'm with you, Big D, the AF64 is by far my favorite of that lot. I had the same "button set" on my Sony. 😍I recently re-bought one on ebay. Needs a belt, but in the meantime, it looks and feels so nostalgic - literally a piece of my childhood.
I've watched belt replacements on these and they range from super simple to "I don't think so". Unfortunately I think the AF64 also suffers from bad capacitors
The best and only way to buy a Walkman or cd player on eBay is new old stock, sealed, never opened. I got a brand new unopened WM-FX33 since I prefer jogging with tape and my flimsy little Craig died. I thought back to the last time a Walkman lasted me 10+ years. Voila, my Sony. It’s fantastic. Works exactly like when I first had my FX33 back in 92. The packaging is brutal though. That plastic is no joke. I even got the matching Sony AC adapter (isn’t included). I just love the vintage Walkman because it makes me feel 12 again ❤
Such a great video! Chipmunk Rock is what that yellow one seemed to be playing. I bet you can fix those without too much trouble. I used to love the Sports or ultra thin players... Man, good memories! I still have an early 80s non-Sony Walkman with radio, a basic Sony Walkman and an older Discman. Can't wait to see more! 🍻🌎♥️🎶🕺
The seller protected themselves by listing as “for parts, not working” but enticed buyers by saying that it’s an untested lot. I highly doubt 5 random Walkmans all would not work. In my time thrift store shopping I would say one out of every 4 or 5 does not work. Anyway, cool video! Maybe you can get the one that you had when you were younger working.
Remember playing 2 live crew before first period with one of these. Would love to see an early diekman and definitely jump in amd repair your old school tape deck!
I still have my 1995/96 Sony Walkman WM-FX101 from when I was a kid. It was a very basic model Walkman, but I didn't care, I brought it to school with me all the time and I'd listen to the radio and one mix tape on it. I never had any other tapes to go with it because my parents thought that was enough music to listen to. Funny enough, when I got a Sony Discman portable cd player at an older age I had a lot more cd's than I ever did cassettes. Of course like anything any cd's that I owned ended up getting lost, broken, ruined or just worn out from use over the years. The only cd's I own now are some I bought new four years ago before covid and the cd's that came included in a big 101-disc Pioneer cd player I bought at a thrift shop. :)
I bought the WM-AF64 new to finally experience the Sony "Mega Bass". Although it didn't have digital tuning like the 1986 Toshiba KT-4066 or digital tuning (and recording) like the 1990 Aiwa HS-J470, it did have auto reverse, Dolby and very good sound! I still have all three... and they all still work!
I had #4 and maybe another one as a kid. They was so cool back then. I was saying out loud that the mega bass button was the mb on #4 😂. Great video big d. It really brought me back to my childhood
I love the nostalgia here. I had so many Walkman players back in the day because people would leave them laying around somewhere or get rid of them thinking they don’t work anymore and the only thing would be wrong is the belts on the inside of the players would be off the wheels (hopefully this is the case with your lot). The Sony and Aiwa players were the best sounding ones when paired with some really good quality headphones in my opinion because they produced the most bass and had good clarity as well in my opinion. The WM-FX403 was one of my favorites because the auto reverse was everything to me. Lol!
if i remember right, the on the sports the little gray switch in the tape slot switches the tape speed so it can be used for high speed dubbing...Also calling the "MB" "mega bass" button a "M8" button...lol
To this day I've never been much of a on-the-go music listener, so I've only ever owned one walkman, and it was a Japan-only top of the line Aiwa with remote, recording, and rechargeable lead acid batteries that my grandma gave me. Sonys always seemed to be the most conventional. Aiwa and like Toshiba made the crazy stuff, like the ones that were smaller than the tape, had remotes, etc.
On the WM-FX403 I believe the clock stayed on because it had a solar powered clock display. The boost from the batteries probably charged up the cell it has to run the clock. The little area to the left of the tune buttons is the tiny solar cell.
Pulled my right out of the package, brand new last year. The walkman worked perfectly but the headphones didnt work. Never thought 40 years would have killed a set of brand new headphones.
Did you try putting the tape in the ones you said don't work? Some of them had safety feature that didn't let the tape wheels spin untill there was a tape in them. WM-FX277 • If the unit has not been used for a long time, set it in the playback mode to warm it up for a few minutes before inserting a cassette. WM-FS220 • If the tape is not in the "pinch roller" it will play at the wrong speed.
Agreed, I've heard about this on component decks - The pinch roller might not fully engage with the tape/capstan so the take-up reel ends up pulling the tape through too fast.
Tell me you did not have this wired into an amp or if youre as old as me it was a 40 watt booster of some type. I ran power from the cigarette lighter plug of my GMC and tapped into the rear speaker for the booster.
Is there a way to connect these Walkmen to, your testing equipment and see how much power and other information from each device? I know wow and flutter, but if you were to have an audio track on your PC. Somehow, play the track back into your PC and then compare the original track to the track, played through each device? Or, something like that.
Hi I have just purchased a vintage Sanyo Walkman Style cassette player, it is a M-GR70 player from about 1980. It’s working fine, which is great but when you don’t have your headphones on and the machine is running you can hear a clicking sound. Would you have any idea of what it might be. Kind Regards John Australia
My experience on Ebay is if they state "untested" then it's 100% not going to work. My weakness is old-skool LED watches and I have, at best, a 20% chance of getting any initially nonfunctioning "untested" watch to finally work.
Faaaaacts. I just bypass all those. And you gotta love the “read description” listings. Puh-leeeease. NOS only for me 😅 And if it’s being shipped from a super hot area of the country (AZ, NM, FL), nope!!!!! ❌❌❌ I learned my lesson with that from buying dried out baked cassettes that had been sitting on someone’s dashboard since the Clinton administration.
The beeping noises are terrible on the Sony walkmans/discmans. I have a Sony discman D-EJ100 that i barely used(maybe a maximum of a month because off that beeping signal it annoyed the heck out off me). Put it away, and i came across it last year. Still works perfect, only thing is i lost the headphones with remote functionality.
Man I've gone on a nostalgia trip and bought Discman's as well. I'll show some in future videos. Those are still cool to me. I'm not big on cassettes, so other than cool looks, these Walkman's don't do much for me
Every time I see ‘untested’ I assume they did test it and they know it doesn’t work 😂. Also the tv Walkman def the ugly duckling out of the lot. The rest have a pretty cool retro aesthetic.
Hey big D would sell the one that was in the butcher paper? Not the one that had when you were young but the one next to it cause that was the one I had when I was younger
Let me know if you'd like to see me attempt to repair any or all of these. From what I've seen changing the belts on Walkman's can be everything from simple to extremely difficult. Also let me know in the comments about your experience with portable audio cassette / CD or other types.
VIDEO INDEX
0:00 What's Inside?
1:20 The Lot of Walkman's
2:14 Sony WM-FX33
5:20 Sony WM-FX277
9:36 Sony WM-FX403
14:40 Sony Sports WM-FS220
20:18 Sony WM-AF64
24:40 Conclusion
Shop eBay for Vintage Walkmans (affiliate link): ebay.us/karw0h
fast forward rewinding is what wore them belts out
most if not all was thrown away just because of the belts, nothing to putting new one in, auto directional was a little tricky like old gm delco and ford motor craft factory head units, good luck finding belts for any cassette/8 track belts now, hope that helps, I remember when RadioShack started selling them and the disc-man roflmoao
@19:53 wiggle the tape/radio selector switch, most would get dirty or moisture get to them, moisture part from leaving in car or on porch lmoao or someone messed with tape head adjustment
@24:19 sounds like it was dropped or thrown to much lmoao
3:01 I could almost feel the volume knob under my finger being being turned all the way up. I love these old school videos.
My favorite ones were the yellow ones that were water resistant. Blast from the past.
👌😝👍
I had own 3 of these EPIC TIMES back then on my way to high school bumping to and on a transit bus line :) I miss The Good Guys store and Circuit City :(
Man, you find the coolest stuff 😍
Note: AVLS is Auto Volume Limiter System
In old day walkman players, it chose between
Panasonic - X bass
Sony- Megabass
Aiwa- turbo bass
And most important has Am/fm tuning in that day
had a wm-fx403 as a kid, this video reminded me I still had it in the attic and when I opened it it still had an old mixtape I threw together in the deck 😂
I'm with you, Big D, the AF64 is by far my favorite of that lot. I had the same "button set" on my Sony. 😍I recently re-bought one on ebay. Needs a belt, but in the meantime, it looks and feels so nostalgic - literally a piece of my childhood.
I've watched belt replacements on these and they range from super simple to "I don't think so". Unfortunately I think the AF64 also suffers from bad capacitors
The best and only way to buy a Walkman or cd player on eBay is new old stock, sealed, never opened. I got a brand new unopened WM-FX33 since I prefer jogging with tape and my flimsy little Craig died. I thought back to the last time a Walkman lasted me 10+ years. Voila, my Sony. It’s fantastic. Works exactly like when I first had my FX33 back in 92. The packaging is brutal though. That plastic is no joke. I even got the matching Sony AC adapter (isn’t included). I just love the vintage Walkman because it makes me feel 12 again ❤
I had the same 1988 Mega Bass and loved it. I used it almost everyday for years walking to and from High school 89-93.
Such a great video! Chipmunk Rock is what that yellow one seemed to be playing. I bet you can fix those without too much trouble. I used to love the Sports or ultra thin players... Man, good memories! I still have an early 80s non-Sony Walkman with radio, a basic Sony Walkman and an older Discman. Can't wait to see more! 🍻🌎♥️🎶🕺
Oh man $100 for that back in the day that’s like $261 in today’s money. Crazy
The seller protected themselves by listing as “for parts, not working” but enticed buyers by saying that it’s an untested lot. I highly doubt 5 random Walkmans all would not work. In my time thrift store shopping I would say one out of every 4 or 5 does not work. Anyway, cool video! Maybe you can get the one that you had when you were younger working.
Same reason I stopped buying on eBay. Easy lie easy sell. 🙄
The belts are pretty much always bad.
Remember playing 2 live crew before first period with one of these. Would love to see an early diekman and definitely jump in amd repair your old school tape deck!
Sony WM-FX403, had that one as a kid. That brought a nostalgia trip to my mind......
wow had the WM FX403 as a kid. that along with a sony discman got me through high school. that af64 is the coolest tho!
I still have my 1995/96 Sony Walkman WM-FX101 from when I was a kid. It was a very basic model Walkman, but I didn't care, I brought it to school with me all the time and I'd listen to the radio and one mix tape on it. I never had any other tapes to go with it because my parents thought that was enough music to listen to. Funny enough, when I got a Sony Discman portable cd player at an older age I had a lot more cd's than I ever did cassettes. Of course like anything any cd's that I owned ended up getting lost, broken, ruined or just worn out from use over the years. The only cd's I own now are some I bought new four years ago before covid and the cd's that came included in a big 101-disc Pioneer cd player I bought at a thrift shop. :)
I bought the WM-AF64 new to finally experience the Sony "Mega Bass". Although it didn't have digital tuning like the 1986 Toshiba KT-4066 or digital tuning (and recording) like the 1990 Aiwa HS-J470, it did have auto reverse, Dolby and very good sound! I still have all three... and they all still work!
I had #4 and maybe another one as a kid. They was so cool back then. I was saying out loud that the mega bass button was the mb on #4 😂. Great video big d. It really brought me back to my childhood
Lots of Sony goodness. 😎 Nice find. Even though they didn't work 100% still Awesome to display in the Man cave .
I love the nostalgia here. I had so many Walkman players back in the day because people would leave them laying around somewhere or get rid of them thinking they don’t work anymore and the only thing would be wrong is the belts on the inside of the players would be off the wheels (hopefully this is the case with your lot). The Sony and Aiwa players were the best sounding ones when paired with some really good quality headphones in my opinion because they produced the most bass and had good clarity as well in my opinion. The WM-FX403 was one of my favorites because the auto reverse was everything to me. Lol!
I believe with the WM-FS220, that other rubber flap might be a speed adjustment control that would have to be used with a tiny flat head screwdriver.
if i remember right, the on the sports the little gray switch in the tape slot switches the tape speed so it can be used for high speed dubbing...Also calling the "MB" "mega bass" button a "M8" button...lol
To this day I've never been much of a on-the-go music listener, so I've only ever owned one walkman, and it was a Japan-only top of the line Aiwa with remote, recording, and rechargeable lead acid batteries that my grandma gave me. Sonys always seemed to be the most conventional. Aiwa and like Toshiba made the crazy stuff, like the ones that were smaller than the tape, had remotes, etc.
These are later models for the most part, many of the 80's Sony units were metal and much better quality.
My first one was a Sanyo back when they still good made quality tape players. My daughter would be asking me where the Bluetooth button is
That sports Walkman has a speed adjustment under the rubber flap on the bottom
On the WM-FX403 I believe the clock stayed on because it had a solar powered clock display. The boost from the batteries probably charged up the cell it has to run the clock. The little area to the left of the tune buttons is the tiny solar cell.
Pulled my right out of the package, brand new last year. The walkman worked perfectly but the headphones didnt work. Never thought 40 years would have killed a set of brand new headphones.
That is odd...usually the foam disintegrates but not the working status of headphones. Maybe they were duds when new?
I only ever had the cassette only ones
Did you try putting the tape in the ones you said don't work? Some of them had safety feature that didn't let the tape wheels spin untill there was a tape in them.
WM-FX277 • If the unit has not been used for a long time, set it in the playback mode to warm it up for a few minutes before inserting a cassette.
WM-FS220 • If the tape is not in the "pinch roller" it will play at the wrong speed.
the sports walkman is probably a problem with the pinch roller
In a pinch I'm rollin' in my 5.0
Agreed, I've heard about this on component decks - The pinch roller might not fully engage with the tape/capstan so the take-up reel ends up pulling the tape through too fast.
I have a brand new never opened Lasonic Walkman. Wish I could add a photo to show ya.
There is an adjustment for the speed
Tell me you did not have this wired into an amp or if youre as old as me it was a 40 watt booster of some type. I ran power from the cigarette lighter plug of my GMC and tapped into the rear speaker for the booster.
@19:18 someone has messed with the motor speed control
Also your favorite is mine also much better unit compared to the newer plastic ones, also I could never stand that beep on the digital ones
Yeah man it just feels solid vs the other ones feeling cheap, except the Sports version.
All my Sony don't work but My JVC still works Great .. lol and AM may not work here, (Vancouver BC) they're talking about stopping AM Broadcasting
Is there a way to connect these Walkmen to, your testing equipment and see how much power and other information from each device? I know wow and flutter, but if you were to have an audio track on your PC. Somehow, play the track back into your PC and then compare the original track to the track, played through each device? Or, something like that.
he said for megabass you push M8....... lol..... more like MB
Hi
I have just purchased a vintage Sanyo Walkman Style cassette player, it is a M-GR70 player from about 1980. It’s working fine, which is great but when you don’t have your headphones on and the machine is running you can hear a clicking sound. Would you have any idea of what it might be.
Kind Regards
John
Australia
My experience on Ebay is if they state "untested" then it's 100% not going to work. My weakness is old-skool LED watches and I have, at best, a 20% chance of getting any initially nonfunctioning "untested" watch to finally work.
Faaaaacts. I just bypass all those. And you gotta love the “read description” listings. Puh-leeeease. NOS only for me 😅 And if it’s being shipped from a super hot area of the country (AZ, NM, FL), nope!!!!! ❌❌❌ I learned my lesson with that from buying dried out baked cassettes that had been sitting on someone’s dashboard since the Clinton administration.
M8 lol it says MB for Mega Bass.
The beeping noises are terrible on the Sony walkmans/discmans. I have a Sony discman D-EJ100 that i barely used(maybe a maximum of a month because off that beeping signal it annoyed the heck out off me). Put it away, and i came across it last year. Still works perfect, only thing is i lost the headphones with remote functionality.
Man I've gone on a nostalgia trip and bought Discman's as well. I'll show some in future videos. Those are still cool to me. I'm not big on cassettes, so other than cool looks, these Walkman's don't do much for me
Get Sony walkman CD players next lol
Every time I see ‘untested’ I assume they did test it and they know it doesn’t work 😂. Also the tv Walkman def the ugly duckling out of the lot. The rest have a pretty cool retro aesthetic.
Yeah I think it's a sales tactic...scummy one IMO. Just say what you know and don't be foolin' da buyers
Imagine amp dyno-ing the headphones amp
We'd be dipping into the milliwatts 🤣
Was screaming at you the mb button press the mb button!!!
I heard you...from the future!
put them on the dyno!!!!! lol
That's not M8, it's MB for Mega Bass
Yes I need reading glasses it appears
Hey big D would sell the one that was in the butcher paper? Not the one that had when you were young but the one next to it cause that was the one I had when I was younger
Yeah man just let me know which one (model number)
@@wal2hey Derek sorry it's taken me a while to respond, I have been busy with work. Anyways the model number is wm-fx403.
their is a switch on the inside of the sports one and its mb not m8
I'm getting old and vision not so good, thanks for clarifying
In the water
Alvin and the chipmunks
if its a walkman then its a sony.... if its a discman its also a sony
Another great video!
M8 😅 (MB = MegaBass)
Analog tuner with presets? I don't think I've ever seen that outside of a car stereo.