Hi all, I've stumbled into some of the threads here over the past few months since rediscovering my old tapes, and have bought a few more since then. Cleaned up an old WM-FX131 that I picked up at a car-boot sale last weekend for a couple of Euro, not as fine example of some of the items I see here, but it was complete, working, and just needed a clean-up, and was a similar to a model an old ex-gf swiped on me and never gave back. Can't believe the prices some of the units are getting though, I threw away a lot of good stuff in the late '80's/'90's that would cost me a lot to replace now. Tapes too!
Welcome! There was a lot of downsizing in the 90's, I scored a ton of stuff towards the end and into the early 2000's when people were pretty much begging me to take their old equipment. As a kid I just had mid-line models and lusted after the high end Walkman's and AIWAs but they were hundreds of dollars back then. Even though they were "outdated" in the age of MP3s I loved the high-tech mechanical goodness they had inside and could never part with the survivors I picked up. The good news with tapes is there seems to be tons of NOS around, if you keep looking. I feel like people are asking a lot but they're not selling, the price should eventually find a much lower price point when people realize there's still a big supply of the more common tapes. The high end tapes are a different story, they were expensive and rare back then and people used them, NOS is harder to find.
