I'm still here 2024 Ms.Lemon!

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.

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.

I bought an MA-XG 60 in 1989 at Virgin Megastore Dublin. I was amazed, and I still have it!

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

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

I love that slip mat in the background. I want one.

Got the WM-F8 and F-18 (boxed!). Your unit seems amazing. One problem with the older Walkmans is faulty capacitors. They get noisy.

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 :)

Just went and saw Jean-Michel Jarre last weekend, neat coincidence to hear him again here in your video :)

TDK MA-XG is a best tape made in the world

Thanks for the Jean Michel Jarre! I am a huge Jarre fan also.

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

Bardzo ciekawa recenzja! Wychowałem się na jean michel jarre. Jesteś moim faworytem! Bardzo Cie Pozdrawiam z Polski!

On cassette i have Radio Activity, and The Man Machine by KraftWerk. Which i need to digitize.

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.

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.

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.

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 :-)

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.

Hi. Thanks for doing this, it was interesting. :) What Technics deck is that? Cheers! Be well, K

Queste cassette sono bellissime,ne posseggo tantissime xche sono un collezionista cassette si classe ma belle sopratutto le tue mani😘

Super j adore

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? :)

What's the make/ model of the soundbar that you've got? It sounds good

Nice!

I could be wrong but I thought metal tapes were better for recording digital sources. Not sure if they are good for vinyl!

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?

cool, i have one, but without dolby and leds...

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.

Can you try out the Sony Walkman WM-D3? It's almost the same as the D6 but it's much much smaller.

Nice music jean Michel jarre so 😎👍

Maxell Vertex!

Nice cassette recorder, but it is hard to find it in a decent condition.

Por favor subtítulos en español!!

my left channel doesn't record as hot as the right. its a conspiracy!

The quality of the recordings with Dolby C is just brilliant :o BTW what is the name of the pop song?

It looks like you set the rec level way too high, it should be within the first 2 lines.

A proper deck would make even better recording on this tape

Do you have a Facebook page? You are my favorite retro tech babe :))

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.

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.

MS, are You drunk/ or under drugs? why so many lought without a reason? dissapointed...