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Heh I just bought the Luxman like 5 minutes before your post. Yeah it's a shame aout the buttons but I got a milling machine so maybe I can mock up some acceptable replacements.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Heh I just bought the Luxman like 5 minutes before your post. Yeah it's a shame aout the buttons but I got a milling machine so maybe I can mock up some acceptable replacements. Luxman is good stuff (I guess less so for the turntables for the price range they usually come in). I’d love to get a full Luxman stereo setup some day. I only have the power amp now.
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I basically don't have any hi-fi stuff from before so I'm not entirely sure yet what I'll need. I don't have any speakers except the ones to my computer, but they use 3.5mm jacks, they are powered so I can make do without an amp for now. I figure I will need a receiver, since I like to listen to radio mostly and I might be interested in getting some other non powered speakers, or building my own speakers, always seemed like a cool project. Also want to make a shelf that'll occupy the dead space above my desktop monitor where all this equipment can sit.
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My Tascam 302 has recently started to make a mechanical (it persists when I turn the volume off) sort of squealing noise in one of the decks. It doesn't happen consistently but it typically starts after the deck has been running and seems to increase in volume/frequency the longer it plays. I'm a complete novice/idiot when it comes to repair so for now I've just stuck to using the other deck. Is there a relatively straightforward solution or at least an easier way to diagnose the issue?
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Got the deck last night, but it didn't work, at first. I plugged it in and put a tape in and it made a sound but nothing happened. I would have problems ejecting the tape too sometimes. I opened it up and looked around  Bigger view:  Video even https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kyUub1mD-M Belt is not in the best shape.... It sometimes slips and is soon history. I kept turning it on and off, forwarding and rewinding. First it would only rewind, then only forward. When I pressed play I would hear something actuate but give up. Powering on would start a priming mechanism too and powering off would deprime the tape. But not always, sometimes it would not prime and sometimes it would be left primed when powered off, slipping belt I think. That one belt seems critical. When it was left primed I could not eject the tape. Eventually it seems I loosened up the mechanism, figured it had not moved for a long time and had set, in addition ot the belt being in very bad shape. Even played now and sounded completely fine. I have ordered a kit of spare belts.
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OK I am trying to figure out how to connect everything so it will work I the way I want to. Never done any hifi setup before. I am aiming for a setup with the above luxman deck. I also want an amp/receiver and dedicated speakers to go with it. I want to be able to record to cassette from my PC and also from the radio. For standard cassette play I connect the RCA outs to the receiver. Then receiver -> speakers. Simple enough I guess. - To record radio, I connect out from the receiver to the Decks input? - To record from the PC I just connect the line out from the PC to an input on the receiver? - I can now too just play music from the PC using the receiver without intending to record. Does it sound like I have understood this correctly? Oh and I almost forgot. if I wanted to record to my PC from my deck in order to digitalize something. How would I go about it? I assume I'd just connect an out port from the receiver to the line-in port on my PC. EDIT: Just learned of Tape-out ports. Figure that's what I wanna connect between receiver and deck for recording. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Sep 16, 2021 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:OK I am trying to figure out how to connect everything so it will work I the way I want to. Never done any hifi setup before. Your receiver should have Tape input and output rca jacks. The tape deck should also have input and output. When you want to listen to tapes, select that source and play. When you want to record, also select Tape, start recording, and play the other source (aux, tuner, etc). If you want to listen to the music while you record there should be a tape monitor button or switch. If you want to bypass the receiver and just hook your source directly to the tape deck you can, but then you can’t listen to what you’re recording. quote:Oh and I almost forgot. if I wanted to record to my PC from my deck in order to digitalize something. How would I go about it? I assume I'd just connect an out port from the receiver to the line-in port on my PC.
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I should add I don't own a receiver yet. I am looking for something nice and vintage that fits with the deck. But not having one means I am also not 100% on how they work entirely. News to me you could select a different input and that there where different types of input, but makes sense. Complete newbie. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Sep 16, 2021 |
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deadking posted:Is there a relatively straightforward solution or at least an easier way to diagnose the issue? …did you check the belts?
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I haven't gotten my belt replacement kit yet, but my deck sounds like 100x better than the JVC cassette radio I also am working on, hell it just sounds like static mostly. Radio's fine tho, but the cassette sucks. It too needs new belts, but I think it's some electronic components dying, or the read heads perhaps. But I am impressed with how well the deck plays given one of the belts is this loving close to just snapping.... Also if you wanna tune your cassette deck... I don't see why one has to buy a tuning tape. Just play a 3khz tone on your PC and record it, then replay.... Then you can verify with an oscilloscope. Shouldn't matter if it records it too fast or slow, you just tune the speed afterwards so it reads 3khz, then you know it records and thus plays at the right speed. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:Also if you wanna tune your cassette deck... I don't see why one has to buy a tuning tape. Just play a 3khz tone on your PC and record it, then replay.... Then you can verify with an oscilloscope. Shouldn't matter if it records it too fast or slow, you just tune the speed afterwards so it reads 3khz, then you know it records and thus plays at the right speed. I think this will only work for tapes you record and play on your deck, might have problems with tapes recorded on other decks, or playing them on other decks. Your tape transport speed will be consistent, but necessarily aligned with any existing standard. Actually, I think it might be the case that anything you record on a deck will sound fine on that same deck - only the engaged head changes, it’s the same transport mechanism in any mode.
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Yeah you're right about that when I think about it some more. Here's another method I read about elsewherequote:I calibrate deck 's speed using a pre recorded (studio recorded) music tape, while playing a digital file of the same song. It's quite easy to match the tape speed to couple the mp3 file playing.
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That sounds like a pretty good method. I don’t have any decks needing tuned but I’m going to keep it in mind - those calibration tapes you seen on ebay every now and then are expensive!
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I bought a bunch of old cassettes (1980s collection mostly) and so far with one exception they've all sounded perfectly fine. Like 60 of them though so I have not gone through them all yet. Some weird stuff like german folk music in there. Mozart too, sounded fine. The one which was bad did have fine audio, but the tape itself was noisy in the deck.
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I didn't know this thread was here. Hi I have a lot of cassettes. They're mostly harsh noise/grindcore/gorenoise/pornogrind.   Edit: missed one  I've probably got another 75-100 black metal, dungeon synth, and death metal tapes packed away. Edit: I have this thing too. Best purchase I ever made, that's a nine minute tape. 
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wow a thread for my obscure obsession  here's this odd unit that packs a punch for it's small size. removable from it's am/fm base. and yes it is branded as "unisef", those tax write offs UNICEF actually sued them over it. i think i even found a magazine snippet with it's price advertised
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I am incredibly jealous.
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Shitstorm Trooper posted:I didn't know this thread was here. Hi I have a lot of cassettes. They're mostly harsh noise/grindcore/gorenoise/pornogrind. good poo poo
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Booty Pageant posted:wow a thread for my obscure obsession Wow, memory punch right here. When I was about 10 or 11 (late 1980's) I know I really, really wanted something like that. A boombox that was also a walkman! Just seeing that "AUTO STOP" label brings me back. Not the same brand (as far as that part of the memory hole goes, I cannot remember a specific brand in those catalogues I was constantly browsing) but that feature - "our player will not snap your tapes when they get to the end!" - was everywhere. I'm pretty sure the one that really caught my eye was one that had THREE tape decks in it - the usual play-record pair plus a detachable walkman clone that detached from the top.
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 Went to a show today, this is the tape haul.
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 i have been betrayed. like a knife to the heart i did manage to save it but drat it's even more mangled than before welp time to make my own bootlegs
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I've been sifting through my old tapes today which was quite exhausting, I have about a thousand from the early 80s to mid 2000s. I used to have even more but I sold a couple hundred some years ago, which I do kind of regret but I needed the money back then. I also have a lot of mixtapes with unreleased live/reh stuff from trades etc. Here are some of my favorites 
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Grab Im Moor posted:I've been sifting through my old tapes today which was quite exhausting, I have about a thousand from the early 80s to mid 2000s. I used to have even more but I sold a couple hundred some years ago, which I do kind of regret but I needed the money back then. I also have a lot of mixtapes with unreleased live/reh stuff from trades etc. Sick
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 Bought this little beast for too much money, but hell, it was available, it was serviced, and it could record proper stereo. Already tried putting my own music through it. Sure, there is a ton of ways to get the effect digitally, but to me it always sounds either too subtle, or or too artificially bad. This one sounds nightmarish, but in such an organic way 
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I decided to get the whole gang out for a group photo.     And some close ups of the top row     I loving love cassettes.
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UwUnabomber posted:I decided to get the whole gang out for a group photo.  Can't believe I missed this thread a month or two ago when I decided to really start building my collection. I now have two decent two-head decks (a Sony and a Nakamichi) and several Walkmans (only one of which works at the moment lol). I love popping the tabs on a blank after successfully dubbing a record to one, it's like locking in a spell 
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Just got the new Tape Roller + from Dirt Tapes. Haven't really put it through its paces yet, but I've noticed that the rewind leaves the tape slack. Which is fine, I have a hexagonal Bic. Quick A/B of the sound quality using: - Bose noise cancelling headphones - Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (ripped from vinyl record to Maxell UR Type 1 casette) - Fresher batteries in Player A than Player B Player A: Used Sony Walkman WM-EX112 without Mega Bass or noise reduction enabled Player B: Tape Roller + Gotta admit - the Walkman sounds significantly better. The drums on Funeral Fog have more definition, and it's just louder at its max volume overall. I really wish Sony would get back in the game and make these things properly. olives black fucked around with this message at 19:00 on May 31, 2023 |
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olives black posted:- Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas  I need to find a new way to play mine, I was using my old car's stereo for a long time but it was totaled by rust. I have one of those incredibly lovely portables from Amazon. Dunno why I'm worried about the sound quality of my harsh noise tapes but eh.
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UwUnabomber posted:
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olives black posted:Good harsh noise has yummy textures that reward close listening. To 3D print a tape deck? I’d say pretty hard.
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BigFactory posted:To 3D print a tape deck? I’d say pretty hard. Assembling all the pieces together would be harder than printing it. I have a mini portable player I need to tear down and reassemble, it's like a mechanical pocket watch in construction. And one of the sprockets is impacted _somehow_ but it's 5 layers deep of them all overlaid on one another.
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leper khan posted:Assembling all the pieces together would be harder than printing it. I have a mini portable player I need to tear down and reassemble, it's like a mechanical pocket watch in construction. And one of the sprockets is impacted _somehow_ but it's 5 layers deep of them all overlaid on one another. Well, sure, and a lot of the important parts can’t be 3D printed. You could make a case I guess.
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Yeah, completely wishful thinking. However hard it is, it's beyond my ability anyway 
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I'm a sucker for poo poo like this and I purchased four limited-edition Morbid Angel cassettes.  
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Is it normal for the left channel to be slightly quieter on professionally duplicated cassettes when songs are at their peak? I've tried this on a few different cassettes now and I can consistently see the left meter drag a little bit below the right one.CornHolio posted:I'm a sucker for poo poo like this and I purchased four limited-edition Morbid Angel cassettes. oooh I'm jelly!
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Got tapes of Menstrual Stomphulk by Rompeprop and Biopsy Blues by First Days of Humanity in the mail today. Enjoy this bad picture I took before I ran out the door to work. 
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Having a perplexing issue with a couple of my tape decks. The left channel consistently measures as quieter than the right, and I'm not sure if I have two malfunctioning decks or if this is just expected behavior for cassettes. For the purposes of this post, I'll be focusing on my Nakamichi BX-100. Here's is one of those. https://youtu.be/9Z--QaDdfb8 Originally, I thought that I might have a problem with my turntable. After swapping the left and right cables going from the turntable to the Line In ports on the deck, I found that there was still a difference between the left and right channels when I played the same song on the turntable and hit Record (which makes the meters show the levels of whatever's coming through the Line In). So... what I did was get a 3000hz test tone tape (which, according to the tape seller, was recorded in mono, so both the left and right channels have the same volume as far as I know). I then stuck that tape into the Nakamichi BX-100, shown in the video above. Unless I'm fundamentally misunderstanding how tape decks work, I should see equal measurements on the tape deck's volume meters when I hit Play on the test tape. I do not see that. The left channel's volume measurement holds at one mark below the 0 line, and the right channel's volume measurement holds at one mark above the +5 line. olives black fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Bought a Magnavox AZ1000 from Craigslist on my drive to work this morning for  . Promptly left it in my locker at work. Gonna go unexpectedly interrupt overnight shift the crematorium to get it.
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Double posting because I just got this bad boy. The r/grindcore subreddit put out a compilation with some of my favorite dudes (Fupa Goddess) on it and I wanted to show off the sick silver and black sharpie right on the plastic artwork.
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