I'm back with another video of the Sony WM-D6C, with more test recordings and a special little surprise with it ;oD No copyright infringement intended
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@marinskt8257Ай бұрын
I'm still here 2024 Ms.Lemon!
@lizichell28 жыл бұрын
As wonderful as these machines are, they command a high price on ebay and can go wrong very easily. An amazing piece of kit for it's age. Very complex and compact with excellent sound.
@uncatila5 жыл бұрын
I had purchased one of these at Fedco new for $275 and took it with me to Vienna in 1993. It sat on the shelf as I replaced it with mini disk recorders and DAC. Today I discovered my lost D6C and I'm so glad. It is a great piece of technology and mine carries many fond memories with it.
@KRAZEEIZATION6 жыл бұрын
I bought an MA-XG 60 in 1989 at Virgin Megastore Dublin. I was amazed, and I still have it!
@TheGKFront6 жыл бұрын
I was born when Équinoxe came out... and my dad bought it and played it a lot. As a result I fell in love with Electronic music and to his shock and horror I became a big 1991 style Techno fan which ruined his life during that period :P
@lizichell28 жыл бұрын
A lovely in depth use of the wonderful WMD6C. I used to have one but got paranoid about dropping it when out and about so I only use cassettes at home
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
+lizichell2 Yes indeed. I wouldn't actually go out and about with it either for the same reason. As you rightly said these things have a crazy price tag these days. I still need to look into fixing that left headphone channel, I know what it could be but a liiiittle hesitant about tinkering with it.
@virgilwilliams80826 жыл бұрын
I love that slip mat in the background. I want one.
@alextremblay66897 жыл бұрын
Got the WM-F8 and F-18 (boxed!). Your unit seems amazing. One problem with the older Walkmans is faulty capacitors. They get noisy.
@stevesmyth49826 жыл бұрын
Over the period of a few years I had two of these machines but it seems that they have a mechanical problem that causes the tape to drift across the the record/playback head and it causes a fading in and out of high frequencies during the first few minutes of each cassette side. I used it to make recordings at outdoor concerts and similar events, the microphone for it gives an excellent stereo image and is unusually of the mid-side type. With the advent of digital recorders came more storage time and better dynamic range but the WMD-6C was for its time among the nicest sounding tape decks. Ms Mad, get yourself a pair of Quad ESL 57 loudspeakers, they went out of production in the 80's but they are so good that you can still get all the spare parts for them today. And by the way, I think you sound rather pleasant :)
@xXcangjieXx5 жыл бұрын
Steve Smyth I had the same problem but after rough cleaning of the pinch roller with isopropyl the problem was fixed. It that doesn’t help for you maybe you need a new roller.
@JohnKGoodman7 жыл бұрын
Just went and saw Jean-Michel Jarre last weekend, neat coincidence to hear him again here in your video :)
@adware20097 жыл бұрын
TDK MA-XG is a best tape made in the world
@atmosphericpressure35606 жыл бұрын
Linhares Zeca My father was FURIOUS when I dubbed over one for recording FM Radio.
@raydm40156 жыл бұрын
I like the SSMM And Suono better
@herbertsusmann9868 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Jean Michel Jarre! I am a huge Jarre fan also.
@H3adcrash8 жыл бұрын
Daaaamn that thing is full with stuff! It's amazing how they got it all in there :D Hehee, and i rememeber those stickers! I used to cover my mixtapes with them back when i was little :D
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
+Electricguy Haha i'm still in awe of how packed it was! a part of me isn't surprised because this thing is literally a professional cassette deck in a small package! one of the channels on the headphones doesnt work anymore :o( every now and then it fades in and goes out... i'm being haunted by a Left channel spirit or something LOL The line out works, inspiring me to build a vintage style headphone amp ;o)
@sealevel5110 ай бұрын
Me too!! And I still have them!!!😅
@MrRobin345 жыл бұрын
Bardzo ciekawa recenzja! Wychowałem się na jean michel jarre. Jesteś moim faworytem! Bardzo Cie Pozdrawiam z Polski!
@virgilwilliams80826 жыл бұрын
On cassette i have Radio Activity, and The Man Machine by KraftWerk. Which i need to digitize.
@sting64az8 жыл бұрын
Nice review on that Sony Walkman. I have a Sony Walkman yet i been hearing these models have on going issues with a clicking sound. I seen a video on KZfaq on how to repair it but just a little out of range with tiny details it includes. The model is the Sony Walkman DDII. It is in mint condition that came with the original case also mint and was on the unit when i bought it at a thrift store for $4.00.
@Capturing-Memories7 жыл бұрын
It's funny that I just recorded that same Madonna's album to my D6C in Dolby C on a Chrome tape but from FLAC files however not LP using a 24bit DAC, The recording came out near CD quality, I wish we could have accessed this level of quality in the 80's , The commercial cassettes back then sounded horrible.
@AlexMGM2 жыл бұрын
Good job :). I have D6C too. Really using high quality metal tape and vynil as a source - you do not need noise reduction system (Dloby B or C). For type 1 tapes with higher noise level using Dolby will be more reasonable. I think so.
@FERNAN_GARCIA8 жыл бұрын
Hola Maddi!! , hace tiempo que estoy siguiendo tu canal pero hasta la fecha no comenté . Lo hago en castellano puesto que he visto que le contestaste a alguien en mi idioma (soy español y de Andalucía) . La verdad es que llevo tiempo tras este modelo de walkman que falta en mi colección en perfecto estado puesto que el que tengo no está operativo . Los precios son imposibles en estos tiempos . Yo tambien soy un apasionado del audio analógico y la retro-informática . Tengo muchos equipos comprados en la época de los 80 y 90 , así como cintas de gama alta como esa TDK MA-XG de 1986 que muestras en el video . Tu canal tiene mucho mérito ya que no solo muestras los equipos , tambien los reparas al igual que yo (soy técnico de sonido y productor musical , tambien locutor) . Muchas gracias por todo esto que nos ofreces . Recibe un gran abrazo amiga :-)
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
Hola Fernan! Mi español no es bueno pero voy a intentar jaja :o) Parece que tienes un colección grande. Es bueno que disfrutas audio analógico y la retro informática. Me gusta mucho commodore Amiga el más :o) Estoy feliz que disfrutas mi canal.y muchas gracias para tu comentario y tus palabras! Saludos Amigo :o)
@FERNAN_GARCIA8 жыл бұрын
Gracias por la respuesta . Yo tambien disfruto mucho del amiga 500 puesto que fue el primer ordenador de 16 bits que tuve sobre finales de 1989 , En mi canal tambien le hemos dedicado un capítulo al mismo . Es un gusto ver a personas como tu por acá . Un gran abrazo :-)
@alansmith24267 жыл бұрын
You did ask for requests, but I wonder if this idea is the kind of thing you are looking for. I'd love to see you loop your minidisc player into your system (maybe with a tape switching box) and record the same single on reel to reel, cassette and minidisc and give us the pros and cons of each. My guess is cassette would come a poor third, but who would win between the other two "contenders" is a moot point maybe.
@MsMadLemon7 жыл бұрын
Actually, between reel to reel and Minidisc, more than one being better than the other, I wonder if it would just be different between each one, I imagine that open reel may have a more fuller sound, where as Minidisc may have a clearer sound. Cassette and Open reel, I did it to an extent towards the end of my hi-fi setup video, I was actually amazed, cassette didnt do as badly as I thought it would... Good idea by the way, I will consider :o)
@kierenmorre56416 жыл бұрын
Hi. Thanks for doing this, it was interesting. :) What Technics deck is that? Cheers! Be well, K
@antoniodellavalle8387 Жыл бұрын
Queste cassette sono bellissime,ne posseggo tantissime xche sono un collezionista cassette si classe ma belle sopratutto le tue mani😘
@mohamedabidli519 Жыл бұрын
Super j adore
@JoeJ-82826 жыл бұрын
YES!... TDK MA-XG cassettes are absolutely AMAZING cassettes!... THE best you could buy of the entire TDK line, and also the absolute best of any tape in the world actually, according to more than one cassette "comparison test" that I read back in the heyday of cassette popularity!... SO, I actually bought a few of them way back then when they were available new for "only" about $10-$15 each, and I actually never used them, because like you said, they were so fancy and relatively expensive, (especially for back then), that you "felt guilty actually recording anything on them", LOL!... And now, here it is 2018, over 30 years after I bought them, and I still have all of them, all brand new in the wrapper except for the one which I tried recording a few songs on just to see how good they are... WOW, DAMN good! The ONLY tape that I could actually max out the level meters on my top of the line 3-head cassette deck while still recording clean, undistorted music on! They are also one of the very few tapes made that were so *quiet* of a formulation that you didn't even need to use any noise reduction with, and yet they still sounded pretty much *exactly* like the source, especially if using a good quality input such as direct from a CD. Absolutely breathtaking for a cassette; better than any other I ever used! (Actually, ALL TDK tapes were very good to excellent quality, both in build quality and sound quality/performance level! I also tried/used and still have some of the SA-X and SA-XG "Chrome" type ones and the AD, AR, AR-X and DS-X "Normal" type ones too, (mostly recorded on), and they are also great performers. They all still play and sound fine even today!... It was just one of the absolute best cassette manufacturers in the world!)... Anyway, now I've still got all of these MA-XG cassettes in both 60 and 90 minute lengths, all but that one still in mint unused, unwrapped condition, and I've noticed now that they are currently selling for about *10 times* as much as they originally costed in the 80's brand new!... I am sitting on a goldmine apparently, but I don't think I will ever sell them because if I do I'd *never* be able to replace them!... Maybe one of these days I will use them for making some master copies of something very special, I just don't know what yet. Great video of that Professional Walkman BTW; I wish I had one of those!... I DO have that same Radio Shack electronic demagnetizer tape that you used there though, and it still works great. I've only had to replace the batteries in it a few times over the decades. A quick note about one thing you very briefly mention towards the end; I look forward to seeing your video about the comparison between Dolby and ANRS noise reduction systems, because from what I experienced in my comparisons of that was that regular Dolby B was extremely similar in sound and performance to regular ANRS, whereas Dolby C was very similar sound and performance to "Super ANRS", because I tried quite a few recordings with different tape brands and types, and with various music styles, on two different 3-head cassette decks, one which had the Dolby B/C noise reduction circuitry, and the other which had the ANRS/Super ANRS noise reduction circuitry, and after all of those lengthy side-by-side comparisons those were my thoughts on that subject, at least back in the day when I did that comparison, so now I'm curious to hear *your* thoughts on the topic after you try your own side by side comparison like that... We might be the only two "techie nerds" in the world who even care about such a thing anymore, but that's OK; do whatever keeps you entertained, right? :)
@JavedMulaniIND2 жыл бұрын
What's the make/ model of the soundbar that you've got? It sounds good
@tdvouk56297 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@ericochoa40344 жыл бұрын
I could be wrong but I thought metal tapes were better for recording digital sources. Not sure if they are good for vinyl!
@i40048 жыл бұрын
some good music from jarre there. i love it how you constantly drink something..hehe... wanna sell that walkman if you're in europe? heh, you got better sound off of that thing(+ any distortions yt will make) than cnn int. has on dvb-s, and i'm not kidding. btw. do you know the name of toshiba's nr system?
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
+ivo kostić I cannot live without my tea, i’m an addict haha....I am in Europe however I still use the walkman :o) The name of Toshiba’s NR system, hmm i’m not 100% sure but maybe ADRES ? Something like this..I’ve never owned anything by Toshiba except a Microwave oven...I wish that had NR ;o))
@fredericopinheiro19278 жыл бұрын
cool, i have one, but without dolby and leds...
@i40048 жыл бұрын
mhm, anybody knowing about ADRES (at all) is better than i expected, AND you replied within 15min... well done. (i don't have it either, but read about it on some paper, long time ago...i thought it was spelled with 2 'd' and 's', but it's not, you even spelled it correctly...) i better run, 2 cups of chamomile tea are waiting.
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
+ivo kostić I vaguely remembered the ADRES, though have no idea what it sounds like.. I remember it looked like the word Address but just with 1D and 1S :o) I'm just having a relaxing evening here watching videos with some tea. So yes quick replies ;o) however i've never had chamomile tea before.
@HillBillyBrown6 жыл бұрын
Can you try out the Sony Walkman WM-D3? It's almost the same as the D6 but it's much much smaller.
@deepakkala58964 жыл бұрын
Nice music jean Michel jarre so 😎👍
@jon1234234 жыл бұрын
Maxell Vertex!
@alexeykokh82407 жыл бұрын
Nice cassette recorder, but it is hard to find it in a decent condition.
@MsMadLemon7 жыл бұрын
Indeed, I saw a new old stock one at a seriously stupid price. So expensive.
@totustosr48926 жыл бұрын
Por favor subtítulos en español!!
@shawnlennon1947 Жыл бұрын
my left channel doesn't record as hot as the right. its a conspiracy!
@amimasteronline46757 жыл бұрын
The quality of the recordings with Dolby C is just brilliant :o BTW what is the name of the pop song?
@MsMadLemon7 жыл бұрын
Yes! I like Dolby C way better than B.. the name of the song is 'Papa don't preach'.
@amimasteronline46757 жыл бұрын
Thank you ;)
@apfanco7 жыл бұрын
It looks like you set the rec level way too high, it should be within the first 2 lines.
@petepictures6 жыл бұрын
A proper deck would make even better recording on this tape
@MsMadLemon6 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLxoq6yGztO5Yqs.html
@iritantNL7 жыл бұрын
Do you have a Facebook page? You are my favorite retro tech babe :))
@Capturing-Memories8 жыл бұрын
Can I get your phone # LOL, I wish I have a lady that she is into this stuff, I have the WM-D6C and some other vintage tech and no one to share with. Just a tip, Do not magnetize heads that are designed for metal tapes, you may ruin the playing head. Also you are setting the recording level too high. Analog is forgiving but you risk of clipping the sound without noticing.
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
Haha! :o)) Yes i'm aware of the high recording level in this video, It was just a crude example. I'm actually quite picky when it comes to recording on tape or reel to reel, if I hear a hint of distortion I re-record. It's the first i've heard about not demagnetizing heads for metal tapes and quite surprised! Where did you hear this?
@Capturing-Memories8 жыл бұрын
Online forums, from analog equipment experts, But you can dig deeper in it and find out for yourself.
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
Yes I will for sure, It's the first i've heard of demagnetizing and metal tape heads. I just clicked on your link and saw the new version, wow! haha it's weird seeing an SMD version. Do you know when they started making it? do you have the newer one? I am indeed in need of the service manual for this because I still have the left headphone channel issue which I need to repair once i'm brave enough to open this again :o))
@Capturing-Memories8 жыл бұрын
MsMad Lemon I'm not sure what version I have, I have a fully working one and another one with no sound never got time to open it or at least that's what I think, Send me a message with your preferred contact and I will be glad to send you the materials.
@penboyasgod61034 жыл бұрын
This video is a mess. The way she speaks, you'd think she was 16 yo with other giggly girls at some sort of sleepover.
@MsMadLemon4 жыл бұрын
Who cares, i'm enjoying myself, I'll choose to be young at heart. I don't need to conform to any miserable standards. Life's too short to be snobbish.
@sergejb.57044 жыл бұрын
MS, are You drunk/ or under drugs? why so many lought without a reason? dissapointed...
@MsMadLemon4 жыл бұрын
I'm just a happy person, and i'm not ashamed of it. You can continue to be disappointed, it doesn't make a difference.
@montana01971 Жыл бұрын
@@MsMadLemon your voice is so beautiful, your videos are entertaining and your humour and cheerfulness are lovely. So carry on and never mind the naysayers ;-)