PART 1 - Panda 6507 Walkman - Is This New Portable Cassette Player Any Good? Unboxing and demo. 

I thought about it, but read the comments...everyone will just say "I'll stick to my WM-DC6 thanks!"

@@CassetteComeback Well, that's one thing that might happen, but if the quality is good enough and the price is right, I'm surely interested in it. And yes, I do have an Sony WM-D6C (and even an Sony TC-D5 MII), which both sounds very good (sometimes better than an regular cassettedeck).

The mech seems ok...it's the sound electronics that need to be made better

My sanyo mgr 59 has one of the simplest and modt basic mechs there could be but works perfectly fine mostly down to electronics like tony said with no motor noise decent belts and a better device could be made after all china has in the past made units for company's i do wonder if it is down to what ic,s are available .

@@CassetteComeback When you look at the best walkmans of the 80s, which had full-logic soft touch mechanisms, autoreverse, Dolby, track search, and LCD tape counters, it's literally amazing that they could squeeze all that tech into something only half as thick as the device you're reviewing here.

Which doesn't make sense. Even if you only use it for digital converter ( which is the least important function) tape playback of top quality should be of utmost priority. A top quality tape mech is the only real point. A digital recording from a crap tape mech will be a crap recording, and if your customer wants analog only that also requires best mech. We need to demand that if china is going to sell us these things, it's not quality for invested/ spent money lest they make better tape mechs. Make our stuff worth what we pay you for it.

​@@BanazirGalpsi1968The stuff from China is dirt cheap. You want quality for dirt cheap prices? How is that supposed to work?

The mech is ok for low end needs, it's the sound circuitry that needs improving.

Thing with records("vinyl") unlike cassettes, manufacturers never actually stopped making high quality turntables, cartridges, and stylii. New cassettes now you got things like this Panda, which could be okay, but you have to be handy with a soldering iron to make it play as it should(to swap the channels round).

It doesn't. The magnet is not very strong and it is also not in direct contact with tape. Don't forget walkman motor also has magnets in it.

it will not, like the comment upside says There has been a lot of walkmans and cassette recorders back in the 80s and 90s that had a speaker touching the cassette or near the area and its safe to use.

I agree 👍🏻 I bet it's outhere ,somewhere !!! I hope somebody finds it soon and starts making high quality cassette players once again.👍🏻👍🏻🙂

​@@PlayitagainVHSit's Time!

And yet on the LCD display it says SD...

@@CassetteComeback oh 😂

That is a great suggestion, but I'd still rather they made it properly 😁

If someone wants to send me one, sure, but I'm not buying one myself as this channel loses money per video, so I keep my spending tight...

@@CassetteComeback yes, I understand. They are not cheap... But anyway, thanks !

Just watch the review made by TechMoan. The "We are rewind" mechanism is crap as well 😞

Or walk backwards.

@@danielgower5531 😒🤦‍♂️

I doubt it. Nearly all electronic devices are manufactured over there. They have the now how. Probably Panda doesn't

I'm over here quaking 😁

Although Sony uses the Walkman trade name for its current digital music players, the phrase "walkman" long ago entered popular lexicon throughout the world for portable cassette player (PCP) units. Sony lost enforceability of the "walkman" three decades ago.

Yeah, but they're rare and expensive. What if you're new to the hobby, and don't want to spend nearly a grand on something to play cheap tapes you bought off bandcamp?

Yeah you're right, actually it isn't actually a comeback if there's no newly manufacturing cassette based products.

Personally I own: Sony Wm FX-652 Sony Wm D6 (not the more expensive D6C though both are very much neck to neck identical) And Onkyo TA-2025 Cassette Deck.

My favorites were the AIWA PX101 and PX303

Marantz CP430 here

No, it's playback only

​@@CassetteComebackHello! I would really like to see Tomashi F-315A review from you. You're doing really supreme job. There is a little more than no reviews on it. This one can record songs from sd card to tape, I don't even know is this stereo or not

If Sony still possesses the designs, drawings, and molds for one of their old mechanisms, they might agree to do it. If they don't, I doubt it. It would require too much upfront cost to design a new mechanism from scratch, especially with the quality Sony would demand.

Not really. True they might have to sacrifice one or two really good old units but all theyvegot to do is taking apart and reverse-engineer them.

That's just copying reverse engineering. I'm sure my gut tells me the tooling isn't even as bad as you think. It's mostly just expert analysis with scanning and drawing and with these days equipment they can do that easily. The original Lachlan was $200 I'm sure 200 or even $300 would be easily paid by somebody who's getting quality.

​@@BanazirGalpsi1968 : The real cost is in tooling, as they likely scraped vital portions of the tooling at least a decade ago.