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Here’s my latest acquisition: a super-beautiful Technics RS-B965 in Champagne color. Its stock performance is nothing special, but what makes this particular one special is that it has been deeply upgraded by ANT Audio. The increase in performance is so high that they state that it can sound better than a Nakamichi Dragon, which is […]

Recently my friend TJ Autoreverse showed me a bunch of very interesting cassettes that he has bought on an UK online store. I’ve never seen something like that and I found them really catchy. There were coloured, fluorescent, reel and even chromed cassettes in the lot: But… if I had to choose the most impressive […]

After some time without publishing anything about walkmans, I’m back with some news: I have recently acquired which is probably the smallest walkman ever made: the SONY WM-R707. This model has the same external size as the mythical WM-701C but with the addition of a recording circuit in the same form factor (which is an […]

There is a group of enthusiasts at Tapeheads that enjoy making mixtapes and ship through the world to others members. I enjoyed watching and reading their experiences and could not stop myself joining the group. I wanted to make mixtapes for others too and swap with friends in other countries. Miles quickly replied me and offered to send […]

If you don’t know it, Stereo2go es the world’s biggest forum dedicated to walkmans and boomboxes since many years. That was thank to Paul a boombox and walkman lover that lives in the US and started it in the early 2000. I joined it back in mid 2010 and have learned a lot thanks to […]

I’m excited to share you a story of passion and bravery. Passion for cassettes, walkmans and music. Bravery for wanting to do something that he never did before: being a DJ but with cassettes and walkmans. That’s what my friend Lorenzo , which is now called ‘TJ Autoreverse’, (TJ as Tape Jockey) did. Considering that […]

After some request, I decided to make a video showing my entire deck collection. So I put all them together in the same table and connected most of the to the audio chain. From left to right and up to down, here are the decks:     Pioneer CT-F1250 This deck was their top of the […]

I’ve never heard about Revox until a few years ago -say 2012- and it looked to me as very particular machines, with a design that is very different compared to the typical japanese decks. There is one Revox that caught my attention since a friend of me had one: John Lydle, a very nice and […]

A friend told me about this video that was shot in Barcelona and Zaragoza (Spain) where a walkman can be seen. Seems it’s a SONY WM-1 which many people believes it’s the very first one (but it’s not; it’s the TPS-L2). UPDATE: My friend has sent me a photo of the real unit used in that […]

Thanks to my friends at WERNER Music, the most exclusive hi-end store at Barcelona, I discovered that there exist a high quality reel tape of the most famous soundtracks from John Williams, and I was completely blowed-out! These reels were encoded with Dolby B. They were kind enough to put this reel on their TEAC […]