tapes dead ????

[redbenjoe]

NOPE

look at this deck auction
and there is a marantz version...

these sell for 100-300 on ebay -
EVERY day -!!
they sure are not vintage collector decks -(-made in the 90s.)
and they sure are not rare -at all

so -folks are still 'out there'
recording/playing their tapes

so there

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-Walkman-WM-D6C ... 19b8ec0d4f

 

[Fatdog]

O... M... G!!! And it's not even a true walkman - just a recorder.

 

[el cad]

That's a Walkman Pro! They can't be to rare since Sony made them from 1984 to 2003. Lots of great features that are very rare for a portable. Amorphous tape head and a quartz direct drive capstan. 4AAs which you would need to run those bright LED meters. Good battery life. It even has a input level.

 

[redbenjoe]

yup el cad-
very solid and dependable decks -
i use this model with the line in/out
whenever my boombox decks break down.

 

[Radio raheem]

Thats the best sony walkman ever made these sell for £200 all day long in the uk i had one years ago, The only prob is there nearly as big as a brick lol

 

[redbenjoe]

with you--

its 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 1 1/2 in inches-
so thats a huge walkman :-
and with the batteries -
it is an extra load

prolly best to have good box decks - that WORK !!

but these are the only next best product to use-
in case they dont.

 

[Radio raheem]

And i agree with you my friend The deck on these are better than most boomboxes I used to use mine as part of my old recording studio, the recordings on these are out of this world, i would love to buy another but im not paying £200 for any walkman ever again, i recently bought a sony dd9 of ebeay for £200 it was cnackered, i took it in for repair sony couldn't fix it so i left it there in discust.

I would love another one of these though if sombody wants to sell me a cheap working one.

 

[redbenjoe]

yes -- they are usually much too expensive - for just a little extra deck -

but --in case you do ever want one -
there are about 20 per month for sale --
so you could hit on a low $$ BIN

i got one for about US $120

 

[Radio raheem]

People hardly do bin's in the uk on these there out for the most they can get

 

[redbenjoe]

here is a nice one for a decent price -
not exactly your hood -
but at least its from your hemisphere !!

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-WM-D6C-Dolby-B ... 27ae6ac8c5

 

[Radio raheem]

Thanx ira, i don't think te gerries exept postal orders but that's a pretty good price

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Sure has a solid and hi quality look to it but I would never pay that much so I'll probably never have on. I have noticed the prices on a lot of the better tape decks home and portable are still fairly high so I agree with you Ira they aren't dead yet.

 

[redbenjoe]

hey don --
asking you or anybody for this opinion

these high-end "PRO" decks were supposed to me made for the
the 'important high-end' field reporters

but they are STILL selling like crazy !!

so - the question is --
after 40 years of TAPES --
and all the 40 years of hi-tech communications --

are all the concert and field recordings - still done with TAPES !!!!???????

 

[bill]

a lot of people still prefer to use tape for field recording.
one its reliable easy to obtain a casette pretty much any place in the world.
it can be fixed fairly easily too almost anyplace in the world.
its not so much they make better recordings its really also about ease of use.
there have been some really good portable recorders made by roland and zoom over the last couple of years.
they record in various resolutions. they are very good but if your break them you might as well chuck them.

 

[MasterBlaster84]

I find it hard to believe tape popularity is strictly with the collectors so I agree that they must still be in use and bill may be right.

 

[bill]

portable dat was seriously the bomb for the longest time but try to find a portable dat tape now is kind of like looking a tail light lens for a 1957 studebaker silver hawk.
seriously tho heres the other market for tapes.
the blind i mean a blind person is not going to buy a fancy digital recorder anytime soon. they are not made for them to use they havent got brail touch screens yet and well they just are not intuitive.
tape wont go aways completely anytime soon.
as long as there is blind people remote areas and students who need a good alternative to a expensive digital recorder the tape recorder is here to stay.
books for the blind are available on cd but most often they still come on tape.

 

[Master Z]

tapes dead???

Not at my house!
Too many nice working tape players at the joint.