Enjoying my Christmas pressie (well, I enjoy them all but you know what I mean)
It’s a vintage 1990 Disc Drive Sony WM-DD11 Walkman in the thought to be “mythical Blue/Black colour”, and it is lovely to finally get to use one.
It needed the usual bits and bobs like a belt and all the caps replacing, however I thought I’d do it a favour and upgrade the caps with quality audio grade Elna’s and Nichicon ones.
Since Elna don’t readily sell low esr surface mount capacitors much outside Japan, I often have to resort to fitting miniature Elna jobbies instead. Ceramic caps might do but I’ve had mixed results with high end audio such as oscillation and general instability, so I go with what works well that I’ve used in the past.
The result is quite outstanding and I’m listening to all sorts of 80’s pop, just for the nostalgia of it all. Thanks Mum. 😀
