Testing 9 newly acquired cassette decks

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• DJ

  @DjDestinyChicago · 4 years ago

  I went over a decade without any cassette deck… now I have 5 with new belts. I can’t stop getting these for free or dirt cheap 😃

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• AF

  @afzaalkhan.m · 3 years ago

  I loved the period  of stereo receivers  with  beautiful fm  dial numbers,vu meters , turntables ,cassette  , reel recorders .   Best of all the music of the 70s was the very finest.

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• DA

  @Daniel-79 · 1 year ago

  I tend to like cassette decks from the early 90’s best. It was when manufacturing interest and technology were at their best. The 70’s units are beautiful and sometimes easier to service but they were usually 2 head decks with single capstan. I have a JVC TD V661 from the early 90s. It has 3 heads, dual capstan, record signal calibration and electronic door. It’s very quiet operating and makes excellent recordings.

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• EL

  @elk3909 · 2 years ago

  ive never stopped using cassettes.ive spent many years making the format better by modding the bias circuitry and running the tapes fast for amazing sound. i then build my own tape players for my own use that have spectrum anaylizers equalizers and vu displays using circuits and boards i manufacture myself using easy EDA.

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• DY

  @dykodesigns · 6 years ago

  All of them deserve a repair job, that Kenwood one will be sweet!

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• SQ

  @squirrelarch · 6 years ago

  "sacrificial cassette". Good band name.

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• HU

  @hugoromeyn4582 · 3 years ago

  Hello Dr Cassette! I'm a bit speechless. More than 20 years ago I bought a nice second-hand Dual cassette deck. It had exactly the same "problem" as the Telefunken! Only DIN connections. I Was using a passive DIN/RCA adapter and the deck was way to sensitive on the inputs. I thought the deck was broken and returned it to the seller. He gave me some money back and I went home with a (also very nice) Akai deck. But now I find out that the deck wasn't broken at all...

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• FI

  @fiero2 · 6 years ago

  Fix the Kenwood it has AutoBias for best tape performans and parallel recording !

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• NO

  @noelj62 · 6 years ago

  Technics and Kenwood are my choices

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• ST

  @stewartgoodchild2930 · 3 years ago

  I’ve just discovered Your channel and have watched the Kenwood repair where You were losing patience!, I think Your sense of humour is Great and I’m learning a lot, Thanks 😁👍

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• BI

  @Binod2013 · 6 years ago

  O god....i miss those sweet cassette days😭

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• EC

  @EclectikTronik · 5 years ago

  Ten days ago I picked up three faulty cassette decks for 30€ from, like you, a local ad. One was almost identical to that Nordmende, mine is a Thomson CD305 and unlike yours it has a powered mechanism that looks to made by Sanyo, same as one I also have. I also got a Uher CG310 which according to the service manual is the same as those two brown Telefunken units you have. Here I must warn you, the fast wind in it is a rack of gears driven off the capstan. The main one (which is also a clutch !) has a central metal shaft inserted into a white plastic tab. Guess what happened to that tab over time, as the metal heated/ expanded and later cooled /contracted...I repaired it, but I spent way too long and would not do it again. I have photos of that process if you are curious!

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