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I keep my stuff rocking, I very unironically love my tapes, and my GE tape player I repaired myself.  I also make and listen to tapes at work: 
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olives black posted:I like the buttons on that player. Nice and fat and symmetrical It's pretty good. Has a couple issues though. For one, my volume sliders are missing, and the parts seemingly don't exist. The equipment inside is unshielded, so I have to keep it away from my cell phone or other strong RF sources. And the tape door is a weak point; there is a hinge on one side, and a flat metal fork that that pushes a peg on the other, and that thing comes loose very easily with just a little upward pressure on the door. That said, it's all metal and hard plastic construction inside, and will take a belt clip from a drill mounted with a screw, which is a big improvement over most players. It's old, being from 1980, but it's pretty good. My understanding is that GE paid another Japanese company, maybe Sanyo or something, to reverse engineer the original Walkman, and this was the result.
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May 28, 2023 20:06
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olives black posted:
Well, that depends. It's no frills, to be sure. Only features are a manual volume cut button, a High tone cut switch, two stereo headphone outputs, and independent Left/Right channel volume control. You can also adjust the head azimuth pretty easily and dramatically. That said, the mechanism and head seem pretty good to me, and are better than the Sony Sport Walkmans and other branded tape players I've had. As long as you aren't someone who needs noise reduction, type selectors, a tape reverse play mechanism and "mega bass," it's amazing. It does one job, and does it well. [Edit] OH and that fucker gets LOUD! [Edit 2] If you want to look it up, it's called the General Electric Stereo Escape Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 31, 2023 |
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May 31, 2023 23:25
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olives black posted:They're going for around $100-150 on eBay. Really? Got mine from either Goodwill's auction site or ebay for peanuts. Had to adjust head, play speed and do belts to put it right.
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