WM-GX655

The WM-GX655 is the Japanese domestic-market counterpart to the international WM-GX652, serving as one of Sony's last serious high-end radio-recording Walkman. It combined full auto-reverse recording and playback with world-band tuning and a dense multi-function control layout, all compressed into a relatively compact late-GX chassis. The machine was clearly built around people who still expected a portable cassette recorder to handle travel, broadcast capture, and serious everyday use without stepping up to a larger dedicated recorder.

This is one of those late GX models where Sony was still trying to defend the idea of cassette as an active, capable format instead of a fading convenience. The GX655 is a machine for users who still wanted one object that could listen, tune, and capture across multiple contexts. It sits within the final serious chapter of the recording Walkman instead of the novelty end of the line.