WM-GX788

The WM-GX788 is part of the last relatively full-features GX-series recording Walkman, bringing together cassette playback and recording, a digital AM/FM tuner with thirty presets, Dolby B noise reduction, Mega Bass with Groove and Revitalizer modes, AMS search, blank skip, and a backlit remote into one compact portable. Auto-reverse handled continuous playback, while recording from radio or external input kept the machine useful beyond music alone. The overall body remained plastic and practical, but the feature set was unusually complete for so late in the format's life.

What makes the GX788 important is that it is one of the last moments where Sony was still willing to gather everything the recording Walkman branch had learned into one coherent object. Here, not a novelty recorder or a stripped utility machine, but a genuinely capable late cassette tool. It sits within the final serious phase of the GX line.