Panasonic Shockwave waterproof walkman

This video turned out rather long-winded, but it's not every day you get to hear "Barbie Girl" on the radio, so I decided to not re-do it. Although rather hefty in size and weight, this is an all-around excellent personal AM/FM cassette stereo from the late '90s, and works perfectly, aside from the tape playing slightly too slowly.

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[TheJoeyEmilyShow]

How rare are the camoflauge colored Shockwave tape players?

[vwestlife]

@TheJoeyEmilyShow I haven't seen any camoflauge ones... just the bright yellow.

[uxwbill]

The stability of the tape transport's speed seemed pretty good when you were handling it. I have one very much like yours, only it has a digital tuner in the top cover.

I also have a slimline silver unit that did the "Xtreme Brain Shaker" thing, with a little "power unit" on the back of the earbuds. That one ran from one AA battery (and managed to play for ages anyway) and was barely thicker than a cassette case.

Whatever happened to that cheap Durabrand?

[vwestlife]

@uxwbill I still have the Panasonic, but I gave away the Durabrand. A lot of the equipment you see in these older videos has by now been given away, donated to charity, sold on eBay, or recycled. I only keep the "cream of the crop" in my collection.

[NEUDude]

Hey, do you know exactly how much these things sold for originally? I just saw one on eBay (along with a portable CD player), but it's at a Buy it Now price for $65. I've never had a Panasonic walkman, but I would assume they're pretty good. I just recently bought a Sony walkman from 1987 on eBay, but the tape player seems like it's dead. It just ate one of my tapes.

[vwestlife]

I'm not sure about this particular model, but I pulled out a J&R catalog from 2001 (a few years newer) and prices for Panasonic's cassette walkmans ranged from $49.99 for a basic model similar to the one I have, up to $89.99 for one with digital tuning, full-logic tape controls, and the "VMSS Brain Shaker" bass-vibrating headphones that I mentioned in the video.

[drawingdude267]

I have a shockwave too. I think its from the early 90's

[TheJoeyEmilyShow]

@vwestlife There's the spirit. The Panasonic Shockwave tape player was a top shelf model in it's day.

[TheJoeyEmilyShow]

@vwestlife I just ordered a camoflauge Shockwave tape player and I'm fixing to make a video of it to put up on there.

[uxwbill]

@vwestlife I was thinking that maybe it got "dealt with" using a "Durahammer" or something...which even as low end as it is, I'd kinda hate to see happen. :-)

I'm trying to get caught up with all of your videos as I have time to do so.

[scatman0707]

haha!! dude, I just bought one of these from a rummage sale. I love it!! and yeah I know what your talking about with the bass boost. It was so powerful, that it blew out my JVC earbuds. XD

Now I have some larger JVC HA-RX500 headphones and a lithium battery in the player. Still runs great even though I got it for 10 cents. XDDD

[jmvintageaudio]

nice to see more audio enthusiests out there.

A++

my channel is all about the audio/vintage products.