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.

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.

This is enough content for a month

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy to see an after show on here, thanks !

Really loving this content, thank you

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

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.

Just got myself a red DDII, loving these pieces of history

Techmoan has a great vid about the original walkman

So……my recommended has been filled with these after shows ever since you uploaded them…..and I couldn’t be happier that I have so much DankPods that could last me at most a year if I dripfead myself these videos

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

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)

happy new years

That is an investment, you are not going to loose money on that 👏

Telephone line is one of Elos best songs

I'd really like a WM-2 in red, but even those are pretty dang expensive.

Fellow John Bonham simp, hella respect. I actually use the pedals he used (not the exact ones obviously) and they are a treat to the feet.

Holy moly

gotta clean those tape heads for that clear sound quality!! isopropyl alcohol and qtips do the trick.

the sound may be due to the cassettes being Type I (aka the cheapest most basic type)

is the Venom Snake nugget!!

DankPods said my name. All has been accomplished

it was such a missed opportunity to use the sony mdr7508

That’s a nice walkman

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

hi i love your content

Dolby audio lol, gets rid of issues with tapes. Depends what year the tape was made and player too. Also the condition of them both lol

Cassettes CD player 8 tracks and records my life right now

he needs to get the Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1 and 2 on cassette tape to pair with it

dear god, the original nugget

Also known as the pre-pod

this is crazy

good video

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

Goddammit! 🤤

EYO, got any news for the walkmans? New vibes or still woofy? EDIT: the ELO cassette looks like Chrome tape, be sure you have the set for chrome tape, it changed quite a bit how you hear it! it's quite a good gap of quality no joke

For the muffled Sound, I think he didnt have the Dolby Noise Reduction on and Also try a type 2 tape. These sound much much better then ferric Tapes

Happy new years too all

I just got a nock off Walkman with slipknot cassettes for my birthday i love it now im gonna start saving my money to get a real Walkman hopefully ill get one before Christmas

This makes me want to get out my Aiwa and Panasonic players. Damn it. 😂

MiniDisc?

"Made in Japan, that's rare these days." Reminds me of how literally any "British" electronics company now plasters "designed in the UK" everywhere because yes, that is true, but they're still made in China and Bangladesh.

I had one kinda like that till I I got a G shock or whatever they were called. I had to steal it to get it tho

Perfect Video Mate. Like Yup. Sony Walkman Cassette Tapes Can Still Work As A Bomb If The Batteries Agree To Trust The Walkman Itself. Before I Buy Something In Mint Or Used Condition From The Past…I Make Sure It Still Works And I Look It Up The Specs And Reviews. If It’s In A Local Store, I Speak To The Seller To See The Same Reason Or Just Test It Before Buying. But You DankPods Are An Expert Of All Electronics. I Will Be Sure To Give You So Many Likes To Your Channel. 👍👍👍

Dank

the audio quality is probably because the age of the walkman. if you used high end equipment, you would be able to get near CD quality on a tape

woah

Did you use or have a cassette tape cleaner tape to maybe improve sound quality

As somebody who was paid to work on somebody's project car..... Yeah it's nice not to have something that's messed with because I know absolutely nothing about cars well I know the important stuff how to change a tire basic faults etc. classic cars absolutely nothing although I don't know about how a distributor works. But this guy had opinions that and changed priorities that then changed. Things that he wanted done a certain way even though that's the wrong way to do them. Like doing construction on the building in reverse order. Hiring somebody to do computers and audio video for events and then bringing them in to help put in a two-story addition ( actually know about construction although it's been a while so I forgotten more than what I felt like the people I was working with knew ). Where was I, I don't know.

5:11 Frank jump scare!! 😱

There's something oddly amusing to me about seeing a pair of Pkcells poking out of something as iconic as an original Walkman.

if you clean the magnetic head it’ll sound less muffled

REALLY EARLY!!!

1:38 FFRRRAA-

ELO! FUCK YEAH! Time album is the best in my opinion.

Www 🎉🎉

On your own time m8

AA’s 😂😂😂

Should have tried the other jack.

Honestly, I couldn't hear much with all that barking from Frank. I hope you'll put him outside the next time you're recording.

tcd5 pro??

Is he talking about James?

I think that maybe this video had a little padding...

If its "fluffy sounding" i would think you would need to clean the tape head, its prob not clean in 40 years

Those cassettes have Dolby NR encoding on them, they won't sound good on an old Walkman because they aren't equipped to handle that

Lmao

way too early!

Dang, disappointed you didn't at least clean the thing with a q-tip and alcohol before assessing the audio quality...may have decades of grime holding it back!

hi there

Frank get out mateeee!!!!!

1:52

frank did nothing but improve the content

Discmens>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Walkmens

Walkmans are garbage analog trash!! Discmens are better digital is better i like digtal more compact discs wins for me i hate the sound of tapes there trash

This is the holy grail of the pre thousands nugs lol Love the videos and tell frank I says 🫨

sony tps. Tape Player Stereo