Retro Thing features this gorgeous old Walkman knockoff today. Alas, it’s junk.
After 20 years, it still worked! The problems are that the audio plays at the wrong speed with lots of flutter, the sound quality is awful, and most importantly – the audio level is ear-splitting even at the lowest setting! There wasn’t anything I was doing wrong, since there aren’t any controls. An interesting design choice, but one that leaves you without fast forward, rewind, or a way to stop the tape other than shutting the unit off.
Walkman Knockoff Is Both Amazingly Tiny And Amazingly Crappy [Retro Thing]
Are you kidding me? That thing’s hideous.
Even Sony’s Walkman designs usually weren’t very pretty.