UHERs!!!

1976

 

1977

 

The beautiful UHER CR 1601, unfortunately there's no date on the brochure. I've got the nearly identical CR-160 AV, anybody know what the difference is? Mine has L + R levels instead of the Cue & VAC rotary knobs. This one looks like it's more for slide shows or where you would need to have cue marks on the tape using one of the channels. This is one of the rare three-headed portables but I think the monitoring is more spy vs spy, the brochure talks about time stamps during telephone calls using another adapter.

There's some other interesting features like "Recognition of the leader tape," I posted a three-headed stereo microcassette deck on here years ago, the third head was to read the very beginning of the tape. The deck was used by police and spys to read the entire tape media and was around $5000 USD in the early 80's. Was this another James Bond Type Deck?

 

Another steaming hot portable from UHER, the CR 240 AV. Sorry don't know the year but it's still the "World's smallest hi-fi stereo cassette recorder." HiFi Tom and a few others used to discuss the "DIN 45500" Standard which I believe is a German Requirement to be considered "HiFi" Equipment. In my experience, these portable UHER's are all-metal construction and much more beefy than something like the Marantz (Superscope), JVC or even Sony Contemporaries.

 

From 1974, the CG 360, the horizontal transport is wild for a home deck but this was the time when they were still trying to figure out the most popular. I was looking at earlier ads, there's a 1977 CG-362 Version that looks the same, I'm wondering if this was one of the first logic controlled tape decks?