After Show: First Walkman.

Oh gosh I hope it works...
Sorry about the mid-rolls now days 😣, may these After Shows make up for it!

[MisterSouji]

Asked a friend visiting Japan to try and bring me back a vintage walkman. Gave him $100 for it, told him if it was more, I'd give him more. He brought me back THREE. Apparently they're super common.

[YKnostalgia]

For the fluff, try taking some isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip and rub the tape head down a little bit to remove any magnetic annoyance. When I buy gummed up tape players it always works.

[nickalexandertherd]

I love how people really kinda rediscover the magic of an actual audio cassette. Including me. I recently got myself a walkman from the late 80‘s and it‘s just amazing. Can‘t go anywhere anymore without it in my pocket

[minatoarisato]

Ive owned a Walkman for about four years now, and have been carrying it to work with me for one and a half. Its honestly my favorite way to experience music.

[JunkieRemix]

I can’t look at a walk-man without thinking about Star-Lord, so I’m glad you played the tape that had ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky

[wingfeather]

I love the two AA's!!
Made me laugh out loud! I'll be thinking about that one all day. Thanks DankPods!!

[MatteMoon]

Got do I love these old Walkmans. I have a WM-3 from '81 that I mostly take to college and when I go out and about. Most people like it and find it interesting to see a 19 year old with something this old

[locha]

I am such a big ELO fan so the love for the boys is so so so appreciated by me. Hearing Night in the City on a Dank Pods vid is CRAZY

[sunny-sqci]

the thing about cassettes and vhs, is due to their composition, the tapes will gradually decrage, sometimes faster under humid conditions. i remember an anedoctal story about how the original master copies of the Macross/Robotech series was nearly destroyed due to a flood

[MandelaArchives]

Sadly the 1st walkman wasn't designed to be mindblowing.
Small history lesson, the 1st walkman was unamed hence why its known as the "TPS-L2" as they were expecting the product to totally flop.

So they rehoused a "tape counter/ pressman" and removed its record function then threw it into the world

Only in 1981 when the 1st Walkman to get the Wakman name the "Walkman WM-2" did sony make a machine from the ground up for audio listening and it was a huge leap.
In quality, size and parts

[imcrow]

1: if they werent already these players are like 45 years old now, put a new belt in it or it will sound like crap
2: the sound quality is probably because the pinch rollers are ran-through and need serious cleaning or replacement, and i noticed on mine its developed serious capacitor problems. worth replacing those close-to 50 year old bad boys. also clean the volume sliders, one of the first things i did on mind and it did improve it quite a bit
PS clean the tape head, its crazy how dirty they get and how much it affects sound quality, just a q-tip and ISP alcohol will do wonders

and on an unrelated note if you want the best, most over-engineered walkman around, get a wm-7, its sound quality is amazing, its the first auto reverse player, first with logic controls, and holds up really well compared to a full-fledged cassette deck (its also really slept on, prices arent too crazy for them yet)

[wrenndigo]

i was looking throught my dad's old stuff and found one of these. he died when i was seven, and finding his old tapes and walkman helped me get to know who he was years after his death. really cool to see one of these being explored :>

[CoftheJ]

I honestly love Frank. And that green iPad 4 made me go on Amazon and buy one. I works great. You are right though, it is preeeety slow. Especially since it came with iOS 10. Only $100 USD though, so that's not bad. Oh yeah, and the dingusPod (the gold one) inspired me to pick one up brand new not a month before the iPod was discontinued entirely. I may not be a patron but I am CERTAINLY a fan.

[warwick]

Happy to see an after show on here, thanks !

[erwinvb]

Congratulations with this beautiful device, hope you can get it working completely fine soon

[olympus__]

The TPS-L2 is a dream player of mine, it really is the quintessential Walkman. Would also be nice to compare to my WM-EX510, a late Walkman

[Offie-etzp]

2 things:
Either the head is dirty
Or the head is worn and needs replacing.

[GriffithFromBerk]

If you give a man a normal vid, he’ll eat for a day. Give a man an after show and he’ll eat for however many aftershows he didn’t watch on Patreon

[CodaCM]

DankPods said my name. All has been accomplished

[bensmith]

I listened to a tape player all through high school while other people had ipods