Part of my decks collection...started buying during Corona period...this stack made me good cash tbh. Most of it has been sold by now, only things remaining are the two field recorders (Sony TC152SD and JVC CD1635A), Technics RS641K which is part of my 1978 Technics 'K' set which is in my workspace. The Aiwa AD-6350 still needs some work as does the TEAC A-430 which is rather a special deck being the first with auto bias system which ofcourse isn't working atm. Besides this i have some more decks...my everyday runner is a Nak 582 but i also use the Nak DR-2 a lot. Last week sold my Sony TC177SD to a French artist, never used it anyway and it had to many scratches, dings and butts....Two weeks ago got my hands on a Harman Kardon TD292 to complement my silver HK stack (PM665VXi, HD800, TU911, TD292).
@autoreverser is right it's a Dual C830, Dual actually had a whole set in this color with amp, tuner....and it's actually a brown metallic color They are but they do suffer from broken gears which need to be alligned properly. Once done it is indeed a very solid deck which sounds pretty good and also made very nice recordings. It's a three head but with combo head, not discrete like my Naks.
Brown, oh yea, nothing around here like that although some of the Superscope Boomers are chocolate. It looks fabulous with the chrome parts.
@Mister X Here some close up pics and a mech pic...the red gear is new, old one had teeth missing. The new gear is a mold pressing not a 3D part.But the mech is straight forward and very simple in its construction maybe that makes this such a good deck. It's a lovely looking deck and it was nice to work on one. my 50st post woepwoep!
here a pic from one of those, it's from a guy in a german vintage hifi-forum. i quite like the wooden panels even if they're not original:
Thanks! That is a really nice looking deck, I think the brown is really nice, maybe cuz we don't see it around here.
So I'm just getting started out. I got a $5 lot of random sound stuff. Of course, most if not all of it needs some TLC to run right. Behold the tower of busted tapedecks! - NAD didn't power up - Pioneer powered up once, immediately started clicking on one deck, then didn't power up again after I plugged it back in. Also has eject issues on the left deck. - Fisher #1 has a weird power plug I'll probably need an adapter to get it powered up since the receiver I got with it doesn't match. - Fisher #2 hasn't been looked at - Sony also hasn't been looked at I also have a Yamaha KX-200U that plays and rewinds just fine but starts clicking/locks up when you hit ff or stop. Wish me luck fixing these!
Thank you, I'm gonna need it, and exactly! At a price like that it's a great way to learn regardless of whether I'm successful.
Usually yes, but all of these are an adventure so far. They all seem to need a little more than a simple belt swap, which I don't mind because honestly I like futzing with stuff, learning how it works. That said, good news! I got a Yamaha KX-200U I got separately up and running! It kept locking up when I hit stop and clicking as the solenoid triggered endlessly. I ended up taking out a bunch of bits, swapping belts, got it back to the home position, etc. and it happened intermittently till I screwed everything down at which point it finally seems to be behaving itself. Past that, I think I'm close to the end with one of the Fisher decks and the Sony deck. As for the Fisher, I had to remove a piece that was stuck down with some blue stuff and when I put it back, it tries to spin right off the spindle, so I'll need something to stick that down. Got some epoxy so hopefully that'll do the trick.For the Sony, so far everything works on the Sony deck aside from play, it doesn't lift the mechanism and the button doesn't stay down. I suspect I know exactly which piece is out of alignment I just need to figure out how that piece is meant to sit. If I can manage that, I suspect I will have a second working deck! It's slow going but I don't mind. I work a phone-based job and a good activity to keep my hands busy during my work from home days.
So another deck from my collection, the Sanyo Otto RD-4600 Direct Drive Cassette Recorder from 1975. Build as a tank, all metal and aluminium construction and a heavy Otto brushless motor. This deck has a meter bridge that can be tilted in an angle or be layed flat. Also has Dolby calibration with 400Hz test tone. Totally refurbed with new relays and lights for the function buttons, all new microswitches for control board, new belts for counter, fixed VU meters + new bulbs This deck is a technical marvel....
Hello Black Fingers, Wow , what great looking deck and yes Sanyo made some nice tape decks they also built lots of other VCRs and TV's and boomboxs back when they made stuf for Sears I repaired a lot their products, That Deck reminds me of a Teac .
What a beautiful Sanyo deck. This must have been very hi-end at the time! I used to have a Sony flat deck in my teenage room. I think I used it just a few times because the quality just wasn't good enough. It could well be that it just needed maintenance and that's why it sounded so bad. For good CD recordings I used my parents' deck. Especially when I had a DD walkman. Now I have few home hi-fi decks. A Onkyo TA-207 that I use very occasionally. An Onkio TA-2140, my parents' original deck. And a JVC KD-05, because I'm really into making mixtapes with the wired JVC remote of my M90. And a Technics M240X deck for when I want to listen to tapes with dbx. Unfortunately I don't have any Walkmans or boomboxes with dbx. Nice thread. I enjoy reading it and the pics, all awesome stuff, but I don't have much to add. Everything here is portable
I'm just a passive observer but I thought Technics had the first soft-touch deck around 77, the seems to have beat that one. In my little world as a kid, Sony, Sanyo and Panasonic had the most "normal" names and were much more popular over something like Sansui or Nakamichi. Unfortunately Sanyo just didn't seem to fit into audio as much and didn't have as big a footprint (in audio) back then. It's exciting to see these higher end offerings from them, I've never found them over here in my thrifting. Those early clear stickers were bullet-proof, they don't fade or peel off ever.
Have a gut feeling that it all came out of the same factory back then Which Sony toploader? I have had a few myself and if serviced with correct belts they are audiophile decks especially with the PF145-3602A F&F head. Hmm i disagree, Sanyo, Hitachi, Toshiba were the big players back then and made many OEM products but Sanyo and Toshiba also had a big semi conductor department which supplied all other brands like Sony, Pioneer etc etc. I think that made them more profit.
