Tapeheads cassette IMO the reason for the low popularity of such cassettes is the relatively small number of players equipped with dbx II. I suspect it's not the best quality by a long way but the Realistic SCT-32 is probably the best value 3 Head option around right now. Real world experience of most users is that if you take reasonable care of your deck, C120 cassettes are not a problem. in their recommendation for bias setting. Wow, where to begin; by far it's THE worst cassette I've ever used; worse than a 3-pack of Certrons I bought years ago. These "once recorded and stored" cassettes might as well be new, but since they aren't in shrink wrap, and technically have been used, they are MUCH cheaper than NOS - particularly if you have a desire to use metal tape. The tape packing is very tight, as upon winding the tape through, it dips down like a "u", most probably dipping down so much it was almost like a "v". Looking for best sound quality at under $400. well, the odds are stacked against you for finding decent quality niche items locally. Aurex apparently still survives in Mexico as one of the last three cassette coaters in the world. It began to slow down on the B side on my Nak. wav file to cassette. Cassette Tape Media . For subjects related to tape itself, And you'll find discussions about tape itself, vintage and modern cassettes, reel to reel decks, 8-track players and recorders, DAT, Compact Disc players, turntables and vinyl, the music I'm ready to invest $1,000 in a cassette deck recorder to transfer from . It features an unidentified Japanese folk song. So far I'm aware of the following: NAC FerroMaster C256 C60 — $1. When I worked in retail we often compared the above models with similarly priced decks from Sony ES, Aiwa, Onkyo, Rotel, NAD, and Nakamichi. I have this Yamaha C300 pro-series mastering deck that SHOULD be fantastic, but it has been serviced more times than I can count at this point. It has behaved well but my Asylum cassette of Linda Ronstadt's Mad Love got bearhugged the other day. After 10 seconds of listening to the opening track, "Say Goodbye to Hollywood", it was say goodbye to the Avanti C-90. I have the following candidates to start off with: Technics RS-B765 Teac C-3/C-3x/C-3rx Toshiba Aurex PC-X88AD Denon DR-F8 JVC KD-A77 B&O Beocord 9000 Cheers at first glance, it looks like the take up reel gets stuck and stops taking up the tape, which ends up being spilled out. I'm digitizing a few old family recordings from the late 70's/Early 80's and I've hit a snag with an EMI Super C60 Cassette. The aesthetics has changed drastically. An -E-- appears in the display. Looking at the cassette the tape looks normal - dark brown. I have TEAC ZD-6000 high-end CD player. The quality does not have to be top notch, even some very cheap cassettes can be an eyesore. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes @RockSolid87 Depending on the tape (pre recorded or not) they are pretty much running slow to various degrees. The title of this disscusion is "Best Sounding Cassette Deck". Paul . I think for 120 GBP (or slightly over) you should be able to find a decent 3 head deck provided you are patient, and especially if you look for decks being sold as non-working. But the tape and cassette itself received no change at all. That said, the finest of all Dolby S decks is the AIWA XK-S9000. Feb 22, 2010 #5 stuartypoorty Reelin' in the years. 18 per tape (minimum quantity 100 tapes; does not include cases, labels or J-cards) The CD I decided to record was Billy Joel's "Turnstiles" from 1976, one of my favorite albums. It won't play, rewind, record, or fast forward. I have a few of the 'Thomsun Original' cassettes. The finest cassette decks ever made were all in the 1980s, before Dolby S was introduced as a consumer feature. I present you my small collection In the U. Lightly used. Can get Deck 2's for $200 - $300 and 480 for $300 - $4000 with the $400 spend being a "serviced" model. I'm considering purchasing my first Nakamichi cassette deck and would appreciate some suggestions. Get this - I have over 30 cassette decks in my (all working!) collection. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Nov 22, 2012 · Some of the nicer decks of the late 70s-into the 80s were not very flashy but they were well-built. Now I In fact, I find the auto-reverse KX-R700 to be one of the best looking cassette decks ever made. Which had the description DBX Series. I put in another cassette, Neil Young, and it plays fine, so the tape is defective. I have he Hanspeter set of test tapes for2 weeks now, and I checked 2-3 of my Nakamichi decks using the Nak-T100 software. In especially a good three head deck where you especially can do some tweaking UR can be a nice tape and the price is right for new tapes. Maybe you have a tape winder, otherwise head to your local thrift store and buy a crappy cassette player for $15 and rip off the covers and heads. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Jan 29, 2012 · The cassette shell itself is decent for a Type I, some aficionados might notice that it has no screws, but for you and I, it's fine. Is your own music mastered via digital or analogue? If it's the former, then there's no point in getting a duplicator - you'll get vastly better quality by taping it from a digital source, into something like an affordable Yamaha machine (the KX-393 and KX-690 are worth checking, as they were some of the last made semi-decent machines, and often work without the need for Hello everyone, i'm thinking about doing a new cassette tape label lately (small runs like 50-100 tape copies) and of course the biggest question is the recording quality on the tapes. It was the best ferric cassette tape available, followed by SKC, and then Aurex. Bought lately a stock Yamaha KX-930 (10€), sounds fantastic and the recordings on it are sublime! Feb 17, 2021 #132 P. Check what @duncandisorderly asked above and let us know. Any ideas about what's wrong? 2) Cassettes are recorded full-track 3) Level cassettes are even and quite accurate (the 400 Hz "Dolby Level" cassette is about -0. Start from the 80s, the labels try to find a more efficient way to produce cassette is using High-speed duplication machine. Once I start playing the cassette it plays fine but within 30 secs. As I remember the cassette format was never intended to be any kind of Hi-Fidelity medium and it was portable piano or button mono recorder/players mainly for recording voice. It fairly suddenly stopped working. wookie32us When using a cassette demagnetizer, turn the potentiometer all the way to mute the sound. The "original" recommended torque meter cassette is a SONY TW2231 which I'm sure is near impossible to find. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Sep 13, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. Hi all, Rather than just listing the direct-drive decks you know of, let's see which model of direct-drive casssette decks you own or once owned. There are tapeheads in here who have many more than me. 3dB , 315Hz 250nWb/m is about +0. @EZ647 The problem is you just can't tell from ebay how these were stored, so it's a 1. Cassette decks have mechanical section and electronic part. Baking refers to backcoated reel tape with sticky shed syndrome. Cassettes have never had any issues that needed baking to resolve. . Trying to find the most durable cassette deck from other people's experience (pro series preferred). But i'm not sure what pre-recorded tapes can possibly be so valuable that the audio on them can't be sourced elsewhere and/or the cassettes re *reelspin**reelspin* All I can say is that when I first heard a dbx equipped cassette deck and a live recording made with it. Cassette deck refurbishment is a new booming business. I also loved the way it sounded for everything else, copies of LP's, copies of my Reel to Reel tapes, as well as just plugging in the very basic RP-3210E stereo mic from Technics just to doodle around on the piano while writing. I find this cassette very balanced with a silky sound, I loved this cassette and it remains my favorite type 1. If you check dbx catalogs of 1982-1984 you will find at least a couple of titles. If it stops playback when the tape ends then i can hear it clearly while i am in kitchen. So no, Type 0 does not exist. I have an ABEX Azimuth cassette on the way from coollpe and calibration tapes on the way from hanspeterroth from eBay. @Sandflyer That's just the air here, low humidity and dust that cassette was just out of it's box sealed a few hours before the picture was taken, I'm trying to move to a different location with better climate control and whatnot but costs a lot of money to find a place these days. As far as I know there are two VX variants, the version you mention with the clear shell is good. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes TapeHeads. That is a very old machine from the mid 70's and will require a full restoration to be reliable, but once done, will be a very high performance machine. I'm looking for a 3 head deck with Dolby C, manual calibration (BIAS and rec level) with test tones or possibly auto calibration, digital counter (preferably minutes / seconds). I like the fact that they have horizontal lines on both sides. From Fuji/Axia: NOTES: - Just like Hitachi Co. Sep 16, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. They were on closeout for $7. its starts to get muffled do to the residue left behind. 5, DR-1, DR-2, DR-10 (except the headblock and the gear idler) and many other decks. Cassette deck —> amplifier/receiver —> audio interface —> Mac (Vinyl studio to capture, edit and add info to be exported to iTunes). It's just a derisive term that some Tapeheads unofficially give to cheap, poor-quality cassettes. The cassette shell itself is decent for a Type I, some aficionados might notice that it has no screws, but for you and I, it's fine. Do not use it when the headphones are attached because the loud signal will damage them. They are very expensive. Apr 21, 2024 The first thing I would do, if the cassette is a screwed shell, is to take it apart, remove the tape, clean the tape path (inside the shell), as well as the area around the reel hubs, and reinstall the tape/reels. After transfering the DBX tape to a DAW. In all, I got 30 of the HD8 & 2 of the HD7. Well I got the J-cards from Longs Electronics and they are pretty nice. :D All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. All suggestions appreciated! The worst CBS cassettes I'd encountered were from the brilliantly-conceived CBS Great Performances mid-price classical re-issue series: many of these recordings were the crown jewels of the 1950s to 1970s Columbia Masterworks catalog, but the cassette releases were horrible. Nov 21, 2024 · CDs surpass cassette tapes in durability, boasting a broader dynamic range and frequency spectrum. Luckily it still works. with Axia. 25. Jul 27, 2024 #140 W. The pack does not include any stickers, you are expected to write on a space provided by the shell. This is a good way of saving tape that has become damaged near the middle. There's a Cassette Deck 1 currently for Okay, we all swoon over 3 head cassette decks, we all drool over hi-end Naks, and we argue endlessly over NR, Dolby B/C/S or dbx. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Dec 24, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. pdf or hard copies. I have a few requirements to add to the mix - I would like to see the full cassette Are cassette decks either belt driven or idler drive, or is it a combination of the two? What does a tire idler do? I know my model Nak, the BX-1, is notorious for having tire idler problems, and the AK member I bought mine from replaced the idler just before sending it to me, plus he sent me a link to instructions for changing it, which he The KX-1200 has the same Sankyo transport as the Nakamichi CR-3, Cassette Deck 1, Cassette Deck 1. That's a decision best made by the TAPE manufacturer in R2R, not the tape machine manufacturer or the user. I've recently got back into cassettes in a big way & would like to get a good deck for playing & recording metal tapes. While it is not a whole lot and it gets buried underneath the lowest W&F figure but it is good to 4 days ago · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. I've 95 soft poly cassette cases for sale Hey, I have 95 soft poly cassette cases. This is actually a second ARA branded cassette from Japan, each featuring unidentified Japanese songs. I ran a short auto calibration on a Sony TC-WA8ESA. Old AIWA such as my AD-6900 is a rats nest when it comes to wiring, a lot of all discrete components and tech working on these machines must be very patient, precise, have a steady hand and all the tools The little light bulb that illuminates the cassette compartment of my CR-7A has burned out. 000985 ips difference. It looks like white-out. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Dec 25, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. The direct-drive decks can be single or dual capstan. Pressure Pad Total loss of all treble is most often due to pressure pad failure. I think if it meets your needs and it pleases you then strike a mark in the WIN column and enjoy the music. Could be missing back tension too, try playing a cassette and brake the supply reel lightly with a finger. I already have the Owner's Manual. Good thing it was a Type 0 cassette, with 60 minutes tape. dipping slightly below at times with the cassettes of Hanspeter. One challenge associated with cassette tapes is the maintenance and care required. 2. net on Friday and there's some great information in there which I will be trying - but obviously taking it very I did experienced one of the cassette that after I disassembled it, almost all of its ribbons unravelled, and made such huge tape spaghetti mess, years ago. How do you know it is properly adjusted and accurate? There are also cassettes for head azimuth adjustment with 8 kHz and 16 kHz signals. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes 3 days ago · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Oct 23, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. www. All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. Given the state of new audio cassettes made today, Maxell UR is a decent type 1 tape. 2dB 4) The frequency response cassette is excellent, the measured response in comparison with the original BASF 120us response cassette is on the graph below. I believed the CD 1 & 2 lines were rushed and was Nakamichi's final exit from the cassette deck game. That's why NASA used it (until recently, at least) to back up (some at least) of its telemetry data. If by 'most valuable' you mean irreplaceable then IMO the best course of action is to digitise the audio on them through a good ADC. I use Denatured (ethanol with other impurities) that has cleaned oxides off much better than other stuff over the 40 years I have been doing this vocation. My initial post came about merely as a reflection on the fact that I had lost touch with the cassette deck "scene" and developments there for quite a long time, and I was thinking that maybe the well known "usual suspects" of yesteryears had been surpassed performance wise by more modern machines/models that I was I'm trying to compile a list of blank cassette tapes that are currently available for sale and currently being manufactured as of right now. The tape stock and mechanisms produced a fuzzy, highs in-and-out quality. It's probably been answered on here before but, being new to Tapeheads, I thought I'd ask. I have some of their cassette deck brochures from that time,and I drool over them whenever I pick one up and flip thru the pages. The first problem I noticed was excessive echo/bleed and noticeably slowed playback. UR: Green exterior packaing changed to red and grey as with the 1984 and 1985 editions. 76 cm/sec can have a low level (-20dB) frequency response extending over 30kHz for the best decks, however 0dB frequency response would be only 8-10kHz for Type I and Type II tapes. The shell is all clear and is of decent quality. In my own collection, the incidence of repaired faulty cassettes is currently around 10%. market the BASF ferric cassettes for consumers were about $5 million in revenue, but the bulk tape for duplicators was $35 to 40 million. 6 mm/s, If you convert to inches 47. That's the only reason I'm You ask 10 people here for cassette deck recommendations and you'll get way more than 10 suggestions! :) Here are mine. Proper maintenance of the tape recorder will help prevent the tape from wrinkling. Back to memory lane with some old cassettes from the 70's and 80's that are no longer. It wasn't before 1992 that you could find some BASF cassettes being technically the same as Agfa - by that time BASF had taken over Agfa's magnetic tape division. I songs I recorded were selections from Steve Winwood's 1980 album "Arc Of A Diver". The problem with determining which cassettes are from digital bins depends on who made what. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Oct 11, 2018 · According to this paper (page 79) (Assuming IEC standards?) the official audio cassette tape speed is 4. I thought i got a rare DBX tape. Dolby S Cassettes I found a couple of pre-recorded Dolby S cassettes on a trip to Florida around 1997 in a book clearance store. Thread starter nigeld92; Start date Feb 22, 2010; 1; 2; Next. For subjects related to tape itself, see the Cassette Tape Media subforum under this one. Besides features and looks,many had great specs also. Note that the lettering on the cassette itself is still green. I can't speak for play time of the other cassette, but this one clock's in at around 7 minutes and 50 seconds per side. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Mar 8, 2024 · I've tried to get my hands on some calibration cassette's. Prod the pressure pad gently to see if its still firm, or if the foam has lost all All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. nigeld92 said: One cassette jumped out at me at the start of my recordings in eightees : the Sony HF-ES. I don't know of a list but I can give you a heads up for JVC decks. About two years ago I got back into analog music, starting with a JVC R-S7 receiver, Technics SL-D202 turntable, and eventually and JVC DD-VR77 cassette deck. 875000 ips, So there is 0. They are crimped for easy folding to insert into the cassette boxes and they seem to fit nicely. 1 of 2 Go to page. What Maxell says about the cassette transport is true; it is well built. 50 per 10ct. All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. That's audio tapes. It weighs more than any cassette deck. Vinyl. And generally, I would avoid any double cassette decks, and although there are a few exceptions, most of them are fairly low quality and not capable of anything more than mediocre performance. Dividing a cassette into two or more cassettes. High-speed cassette usually marketed as "Computer '****' mastering", And they have no noise reduction. Assuming an exact replacement bulb may be hard to find, I'm thinking of replacing the bulb with a small white LED and a resistor in series to set the current. The color is dark gray, the surface is semi-matte, and the coloration is a bit splotchy with noticeable striations (looks like 4) in each of the stereo pairs. I tried to transplant the tape to another shell, but it plays with the same issues. After 10-20 seconds, the tape starts to Back to C120 cassettes, Wilhelm explains wonderfully well why I surmised that C120 cassettes might have thinner oxide coating than C90 and C60. If anyone is interested, I'm selling them for $15. By 2000, the time cassette format disappeared from the mass market right around 2000, companies which manufactured truly high-performance cassette mechanisms had ceased production and, apparently, destroyed a lot of related intellectual property. 6/25. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes According to this paper (page 79) (Assuming IEC standards?) the official audio cassette tape speed is 4. A cassette at 4. Some new shells come with leader but some don't. Sep 14, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. However, the one in the image below is, I think much better. The latter has the ability to adapt to some cassettes that the Excelia decks could not, because of its superb auto-calibration system which also automatically adjusts equalization. sold tapes in Japan as both Hitachi and Maxell, so did Fuji Co. 24 of the HD8 tapes are going out to other TH's who took me up on my offer to get them 4 packs of HD8's for $12 from Eggers if they sent me some money to buy & ship them I have this ARA branded cassette from Japan. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Courtesy of the cassette's own guide posts which are either sides of the head guides, the integral head guides stay out of the way and allow the tape to naturally "wrap" around the head face, which contributes to good tape to head contact. Some of their later decks were also noteworthy,but the All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes 4 days ago · It saddens me deeply yeah; but I contacted this local electrician who repairs cassette decks and portables who's from a different region from the Philippines, he says I should try replacing the belt to at least try or isolate the problem, if such attempts do not align to a progress; I might have to find an experienced electronic technician here Nov 10, 2024 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Looking at buying pre-owned Nakamichi for playback only on some old cassettes. Type IV (Metal) tapes do better, up to 14-16kHz at 0dB. When I turn it on, it clicks several times. All of them are recorded on what I'd class as 'commercial' media like your BASF example I Read old Cassette Tests from different Magazines yesterday and noticed, that Azimut Tolerances from 30-50 Degrees at 10 kHz were absolutely normal, even on the good cassettes, that’s freakin high and it means that it‘s practically not possible to adjust a tapehead so, that every Cassette will be played correctly in it‘s complete TapeHeads. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes All "Digalog" cassettes from WEA are certainly made from digital bins. but, if you ever do find somewhere, please let me know. I have used it in many decks that have come and gone into my stable. TapeHeads. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes I bought a new, 10 ct. clamsterdamm Open-gap Tapehead. Here are my picks for nice designs: early to late 1970s TDK tapes mid to late 1970s BASF cassettes 1975 In terms of recording quality, I would rank the top Aiwa deck as a toss-up between the XK-009, XK-S9000 and AD-F990. Shouldn't it be the same for cassette? "If you come from R2R, you'll be disappointed with cassette decks :)" Certainly. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes You are not alone, I'm sure many tapeheads in here have many cassette tapes stored away in secret! ;-) I think I must have about 300 - 500 cassette tapes in my stocks. Fuji took the decision in the early 80's to stop selling tapes as Fuji in Japan and use the name Axia instead, limiting the Fuji name to The (big) catch is that I am not supplying the winding mechanism, you come up with your own. I run a cassette label, so normally I'm looking for cases! But I don't have a template for these, nor do I have the time to create one. They sounded great and when I returned to Canada I went looking for them at record stores and department stores that were blowing out cassettes. The version depicted at VintageCassettes ("Maximum Dynamic HiFi Cassette") is the more common one, but there is an earlier revision with slightly different text. One other possible reason would be a bad adjustment of the erase head or the black tape guide on the other side of the tape-head. It sounded very dull. Firstly, welcome to Tapeheads (perhaps make a fuller introduction on the Meet-N-Greet section) That’s: generally excellent tapes and a lot of the forum members have used them. Here are some of the specs I collected: Just in! My Latest Toy! "NEW OLD STOCK" The sound quality is "SUPERB" to say the least! TEAC 860 Stereo Cassette Deck MSRP $1750 1976 - 1977 WANTED: Schematics Manual, Parts List Manual and the Service Manual in either . They were RCA Living Stereo classical tapes. DD-9 DD-7 DD-5 DD-99 DD-77 All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. All genres and decades. I purchased one new back in '86but somewhere along the road I sold it or gave it away. Go. I tried it with a dbx model 224 and a Teac V900X deck. It would be harder to find a more obvious sign of Maxells now slipping quality control. But most of us cut our teeth early on a common 2-head deck and these still dominate what we find at thrifts, yard sales, etc. Net Member 'Best' according to one's opinion. Aug 15, 2019 · There is some legal local cassette label like musica studio; they use Dolby B both international and local albums. We know what a good cassette All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. The official Yamaha repair center in SoCal couldn't For those that prefer the simplicity and reliability of a single capstan transport, there are many amazing machines to choose from. The homemade ferric tape recordings made in the 2000s and commercially released classical music on metal tapes from the early 90s play audibly closer to the correct speed than the other tapes from the late 70s, 80s and 90s. 80sGuy TapeHeads. The players would have a microphone so you could record All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. I believe they factor in THD,FR, noise, etc. As far as I know there have been a total of not more than 50 titles of pre-recorded cassettes employing dbx II. But according to NAB standards it is 1 7/8 ips or 1. Feb 22, 2010 welcome to TapeHeads! Scan the threads started by Stuartypoorty, or just PM him, very nice guy. The JVC should A full magazine issue covering many aspects of cassette tape use and recommendations, including a primer for newbies, a defined vocabulary for tape recording methodology, understanding tape-noise-reduction systems (v good stuff!), an overview regarding early 1980s pre-recorded cassettes for audiophiles, and musings covering how to improve These are the tapes that I cleaned Eggers Audio & Video out of this past week. Special Mechanism was first featured in BASF's first chrome cassette in 1971. All AIWAs are very picky on belts. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes I can attest to the TD-V66 being a great cassette deckfor both recording and playback. I found it easy to buy a cheap non-runner (the 2 main belts usually melt so the play button turns itself off after a second) and aside from cleaning up the residue, replacing the belts ( 1 flat 1 square from those cheap various-sizes Here's a thread for us to discuss cassettes that LOOK neat, not how they sound, how they LOOK. They licenced it to Agfa who made their own cassettes. Not saying copying the original box/packaging, but how do they make an old ugly dirty deck looks like pristine condition externally? Simple cleaning won't work I think. Turntable —> phono preamp (Yamaha AVX-700 because it has a phono input) —> audio interface —> Mac (Vinyl studio to capture, edit and add info to be exported to iTunes). The shell is very well built and the J-card & labels are nice & simple. These models had quartz locked direct drive motors. Apr 27, 2022 #145 C. I have 3 of those Mayak decks. Distinguished fellow TapeHeads, I hereby wish to introduce the latest addition to the family of Mirror Test Cassettes, which I have been making during the past 3 and a half years: the new Mirror Test Cassette MTC 2024-B that uses an ultra thin virgin tape of 9 micrometers (C120) thickness for the most precise tape path checking and adjustment. As with stand-alone receivers, I imagine the back panel had provisions for hooking up a turntable, CD player and (possibly) a second cassette A pre-recorded cassette I got from e-bay is leaving a white residue on my boombox head and roller. Mine look just like yours does here (the majority are in standard cassette cases though). S. 874015 ips. Next Last. More notably, this cassette has specifications printed on it, and the specs of the later version are a little different. Sonopress (Asheville, NC) and Cinram (Richmond, IN) invested a bit later. I have some of the boombox speed cassettes, which seem a little off, but steady. 4 = 1. 00 Let me know if you're interested. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes I personally like almost all of the silver offerings from JVC,have some of them,wouldn't mind having a few more. Concerning cassette decks, 99% of planet Earth has moved on anyway. Gimmicks like search and tubed displays, music search were found only on higher-priced decks targeted to appeal to the medium to higher priced average Joes out there. From western decks i have aiwa ad-3600 and sony tc-k71. This model is becoming rare, and when it does exist, it sells for a high price. The LED should also deliver more brightness TapeHeads. box of the 90 minute tapes on Ebay last week for $3. Isopropyl is for skin application as in a disinfectant and why it is used mostly for rubbing alcohol. The cassette is So @1pc@atime, since you've mentioned AIWA AD-6900 as being a complex deck to work on I should only add that it is. However a tape that's "easy to turn by hand but struggles in the tape recorder" is usually a dead giveaway of a subpar shell: it's not uncommon for older and/or pre-recorded tapes to be housed in "shells" without tension posts, sometimes without even roller guides, and subpar or missing slip sheets. After turning off the DBX it sounded like a The 1990-91 cassette decks and tapes for you all to look at. I've always wondered how good those units were and if they had all the same features as stand-alone receivers and cassette decks. Good to know that my musings as a schoolboy were in fact correct. I've looked at the Nakamichi ZX7 and the Nakamichi 500 Dual Head Cassette Tape Does anyone here know a good supplier for cassette tape heads? (Preferably dual heads) I am attempting to design my own tape delay out of a cassette deck and I am having a hell of a time Buy cassette tapes new & used from our online store. I have a Genlabs speed cassette, which was vey expensive. This cassette is the pro version of their SA-X cassette. Hard to say without more information/pics of the tapes themselves. Extra points if the capstan and reels are The tape inside the cassette is a kind of dirty gray, halfway between a grey and brown colour, with a moderately reflective texture, not dull neither glossy. When i record a cassette with these and then listen then the difference from source and tape is very very low and that when using maxell A niche thing like belts for a cassette deck is very difficult to find locally. You must keep cassette tapes away from sunlight, dust, and magnetic fields. The Cassette Hero sits on the cassette and applies the moist swab to the rewinding tape. Put it the other way round, and it's quite right. To solve this, I'm keeping the original cassette cover and j-card and I ordered the CD so I can record it myself. tapeheads. One that basically performs the same function is all I need. ^ Well, that's the textbook approach, and as such it's the "proper" thing to do. Also three reel to reel machines. I was sold. In practice, since not everybody can get hold of the proper splicing tape, even Scotch tape can work with no problems, at least in the medium term, if executed perfectly (clean Um, yeah. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. May 2, 2024 #139 8. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes NAC C756 arrived today The sample is 60 minute, in a clear, welded shell, and as expected, is tabbed for type II. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes I'm sure they were also made by brands other than Radio Shack (Realistic). good quality belts even more so, and in a small (population) country like Canada. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Jul 29, 2008 · This is a cassette I bought from A to Z Audio. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Mar 6, 2022 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. These are driven by a AC motor. Hi Tapeheads, I am in search of a torque meter cassette and see a few on Ebay and not sure if they are legit or not. A cassette mirror allows you to follow the path of the tapes and adjust the guides based on that, but I don't know if it is sufficient. I have some really crappy 2 decks cassette player and also one of the 3 head Technics RS-BX606 series player I've never needed to recap any cassette decks in my possession for as long as I can remember. The "Type" designations did not exist until the early 1980s, long after those original Philips-specification cassettes were rendered obsolete. Concerning the original question, something on one person's AVOID list All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. While it is not a whole lot and it gets buried underneath the lowest W&F figure but it is good to You can take the cassette door off and if you don't have a mirror cassette use a transparent one. It only takes few minutes of web browsing to find out. Hiphop, Punk, Metal, Classic rock, Jazz, Blues, soundtracks, country, & more r/TapeHeads: This community is a celebration for the amazing compact cassette technology that is still very much alive. box. Oct 10, 2023 · All discussions pertaining to 2-channel, standalone cassette decks. A short leader cassette is useful for testing autoreverse personal stereos, it is easier to see the tape path and head alignment through the clear leader tape. American Multi-Media/Concept Design and WEA (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton) were early digital bin users. Feb 7, 2009 · But then I never used many good ferrics, as the BASF Chrome Super was my bread-and-butter cassette in the 80s, until I completely switched to Metal types for home use (when the quite good Fuji FR Metal and TDK MA from the end-80s finally made them affordable, especially when bought in boxes of 10) and simple cobalt-doped ferrics for car use. 76 cm/s or 47. Nakamichi 1000 Tri-Tracer Nakamichi 700 Tri-Tracer Nakamichi Cassette deck 1 Tandberg TCD 911 All these decks has manual azimuth on dedicated play head. These include general usage, recording, playback and service questions. At the height of cassette popularity, people recorded all kinds of stuff - and then never listened to it again. I have a Sony TC-WE635 dual cassette deck. I haven't read any recent articles about it, but if that happens to have changed then ask/listen to (or better yet, COLLECT) any of the 1957-64 RCA Living Stereo LSC- label (Shaded Dog) or Mercury Living Presence recordings tapes from 70-ish years ago. You guys are still going on about these “Non Certified” alignment tapes? *lmao* I bought a Beatles cassette tape from a second hand site. Net Member. The Nakamichi Deck 1 & 2 were simple machines, nothing compared to their earlier lines. The closest issue that cassettes face seems to be limited to tape made by Capitol Magnetics which makes up pre-recorded tape only as far as I know (if anyone has the same issue with the old Capitol blanks let us know), but even that is I have all of those things and a cassette wand demagnetizer and will be giving the Teac V-500X a bath pretty soon. All these high-end machines from late 80s and early 90s are now useless expensive door stopers. Took 4 hours (if not busy) to figure and remove the loose knot, and respool again. IIRC, the mechanism uses an idler tire to drive the reel plates and usually, with time, it gets harder, slippery and FF/REW and play all suffer. Tried them out tonight. If it can run on batteries, please post in the Walkmans/boomboxes Cassette Faults As cassettes age, faults are now seen more often than in decades past. If there is an excessive inter-capstan tension, than it means the transport has a fault, nothing more - possibly a wrong size/quality (or just weak) capstan belt. lps olybyr mavvjx pxvsu xucv lbh gfln khrcp ntgt kbknve