who hear remembers walkmans?

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I not only remember them, but I still have one and listen to it. I keep my collection of music tapes in a plastic bin that has a picture of a "ghetto blaster" and tapes all over it that I bought at Walmart not long ago. Funny that pictures of such things are now "cool" when the real things are obsolete.

I still have mine I'm not sure if it still works though.

I am using one now.

I still buy music cds aswell, Can't get enough really

Probably cause at the time I got used to it so I didn't change the way I got my musics.

a decent in-spec cassette deck on decent cassette tape could produce good copies of music. In 1985 had one of those miniature sony walkmans, barely larger than a cassette, it lasted me until a few years ago.

I still have a Sony Walkman radio.
Does that count?

^^^^close enough for gov't work

i remember them. i never used them.
i never listen to music except when i am in front of my studio monitors and my only focus is on the music.

i can not listen to music "on the side". i do not enjoy it.
i choose the songs i want and i listen to then with the lights off at extreme volume levels in the best possible quality.

headphones do not cut it because you do not get that subtle bodily experience and the ambience (including floor vibrations) of speakers.

headphones have excellent stereo separation, but they do not have ambience like free standing speakers.

here are the best speakers ever made in my opinion, (i can not afford them at $30,000 each even now (and as rare as hens teeth)) and they were designed and built in 1973 as far field monitors.

i listened to them once in a studio and was astounded at he experience. you would be almost able to hear a pin dropping during a cannon shot (in the same recording) with those speakers. the depth was insane.
they are awesome..


i use cerwin vega prostax monitors at the moment and they each have 2x15" bass speakers and 1x 6" wide horn midrange and a split ring radial tweeter and they have an SPL of around 110 db/watt so they are very efficient, and they can handle 1200 watts. they sound extremely good.


although headphones can play notes down to 20 hertz and below, they can not truly transmit the experience of a note that deep.

there has to be a tactile bodily sensation in accompaniment to the experience of a 20 hertz note in order for it to be detected.

i went to a cathedral once when on a school excursion, and they had a pipe organ there, and the lowest note on it was 16 hertz.
the man demonstrated the 16 hertz note, but we all had to stand up in the "dress circle" in order to experience the note (more than half a wavelength away from the source).

it was an experience like the yawning depths of the universe opening up, and there was the sensation that we could hear it, but i guess we could not really hear it, but the sensation was truly of biblical proportions. the JBL 4350's could play that type of depth with perfect fidelity at deafening levels with no distortion at all.

headphones would not make any sound at all but for maybe a fluttering sound if they are cheaper ones.

i have found with my senn hd580 precision cans, that if i turn the volume up i can hear and feel [in my head and eards at least] a 16 cycle test tone, in the sense of "counting the cycles" - but the experience of hearing and [mostly] feeling a 32" pipe speaking low low C in a wurlitzer theatrical organ, was a horse of a different color, it felt like i was getting vibrated from the inside-out. almost a sickening visceral feeling, a quaking. never experienced anything like that from my walkman but it did keep me aural company on my jaunts here and there and made airplane flights immeasurably more pleasant.

I heard vinyl records have come back but I've never seen any recently new ones. If this is making me feel old, imagine how my parents must feel.

I was so happy when digital recording and playback became commonplace. I can't imagine going back to laboriously cleaning and prepping vinyl and still putting up with clicks and pops and inner groove distortion and NOISE in general.

I quite like a bit of vinyl noise. It's warm.

I remember listening to "Downtown" on my parent's reel-to-reel tape player.

I like snap, crackle, and pop better!

I remember being impressed by the chain of greatest hits coming from a compilation tape my neighbor played on his reel to reel tape machine.