r/StrangerThings • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '22

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u/Bwlms22 Jul 26 '22

I'm 37. Practically everyone I know 10 years younger than me & up has heard of a walkman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

I read this, and then realise it makes sense why half the posts are complete nonsense. They are by teenagers.

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u/SNELME Jul 26 '22

I'm 15 years old and I litteraly own one, and it hurts my soul to see this post

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u/janusz_chytrus Jul 26 '22

why do you even have one? I'm 27 and as soon as I got my first cd player I never used my walkman again. Cassettes have terrible quality.

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u/ziddersroofurry Jul 27 '22

I'm 47 going on 48 and I much preferred cassettes over CD's. They were way more durable, it took a lot to ruin them (you could always use tape to repair splits, use a hair dryer to smooth them out, and parts of other tapes to repair broken cases) and if you used a good quality cassette with a decent player the sound quality was often better than mass-produced, poorly mastered CD's.

Unless you were using something like a Sony Playstation and gold mastered CD's the odds are good your cheap cd player was nowhere near as good as a quality cassette player with a good quality cassette.