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Thread Number: 73669
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Post# 972857 12/10/2017 at 16:29 (2,320 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 I tried to fix my 1991 Sony cassette deck this afternoon. It wouldn't play/ff/rew or eject the loaded tape. Figured bad drive belts. Found a repair kit (2 belts and pinch roller) on eBay from a seller in Slovakia(!). Also found a service manual online. The original belts were broken and deteriorated to sticky goo, like an ancient rubber band. The parts fit perfectly but it still doesn't work. Something is jammed or one of the motors may be bad. I may disassemble again and investigate but probably will end up tossing it. Leastwise I have the Pioneer deck I found on eBay in Oct. | ||
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| Post# 972888 , Reply# 1 12/10/2017 at 20:32 (2,320 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA) | ||
 Well that's too bad. Did you buy it brand new? What was the model number?
I owned three cassette decks over the years, but I don't have one right now. The first one, the MCS 3539, didn't even have Dolby NR! The Sharp RT-10 had Dolby B NR and could use the new "Metal" bias tapes. I finally got a Dolby C deck with the AKAI HX-3 and it was a real improvement in sound.
I bought a few of the first generation Maxell MX60 metal cassettes when I got the Sharp RT-10. Only a few because they were very expensive. I'm not sure they sounded much better than the regular CrO2 high-bias tapes but they were built like tanks. I played and re-recorded them to death and they lasted forever.
I still have a few mix tapes stored away...including one of those Metal MX60s. I guess the real test will be if they'll still play one day. I recently saw that the last company that makes cassettes actually expanded production to meet the new "retro" demand for them. CLICK HERE TO GO TO IowaBear's LINK | ||
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Post# 972914 , Reply# 2 12/10/2017 at 22:47 (2,320 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Sony TC-K620, bought new from Crutchfield. My first deck was an MCS. I don't recall the model for sure but I think it was 3551 or very similar. I still have the turntable from that system, everything else is long gone. Next tape deck was a Pioneer CT-F750, then added a Pioneer CT-6R. There was a Yamaha "Natural Sound" next but I don't recall the model. Then the TC-K620. I also have the Pioneer CT-9R now, as per the above-mentioned eBay find in October. | ||
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Post# 972958 , Reply# 5 12/11/2017 at 07:50 (2,319 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I used to get a new cassette deck whenever the latest innovation came along. Had the Sony deck show in Glenn's Reply #2 above. It was interesting to hear the difference in sound between various brands and models. I liked a fairly bright sound with really crisp high end and a couple of decks were jettisoned rather quickly because their sound was too 'dark' for my tastes.
Tended to use a lot of TDK SA's, which, to my ears, had excellent frequency reproduction without sacrificing too much in the lower midrange. Maxell metal tapes were a bit dark and boomy in my Sony, but sounded great in the Nakamichi I had in the mid 1990s. Moved to MiniDiscs (which never really caught on in the US), which I loved because they were small and you could add song titles/artists names to mix 'tapes.' Used that format until just a few years ago. Still have the Sony home mini disc player/recorder and the Walkman-like portable version, which I plugged into the sound system in the car.
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| Post# 973119 , Reply# 6 12/11/2017 at 23:01 (2,319 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA) | ||
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That Sony TC-K620 is nice deck, I can why you would want to save it. That's higher end than any I ever owned.
That Pioneer CT-F750 is really great looking though. Love everything about it. CLICK HERE TO GO TO IowaBear's LINK | ||
| Post# 973122 , Reply# 7 12/11/2017 at 23:16 (2,319 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
 Like many kids growing up in the 80s, I used cassette a lot. Mostly recording LPs onto a cassette that would be the "daily driver" format, saving the LP for good. A local college bookstore had cheap tapes in a big barrel. When I got a decent turntable, I dumped cassette, keeping only spoken word tapes and old radio show tapes. I figured I'd get a tape player--but it would be something cheap at a local chain store, not the specialist dealer where the turntable came from. As it turned out, it was several years before I bought a tape deck, and the chain store I bought from was Goodwill. The selling point was A) the Sony deck I got was old (1970s?) and kind of neat, and B) it was a cheap deck. I was only really interested that day because of car I'd recently gotten that had a tape deck.
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| Post# 973123 , Reply# 8 12/11/2017 at 23:22 (2,319 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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| Post# 973699 , Reply# 10 12/14/2017 at 21:00 (2,316 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA) | ||
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Reel-to-reel and Laserdisc were tech I wanted but could not afford.
My brother-in-law had a reel-to-reel deck and his was the first one I ever saw. I loved the ritual of threading the tape. He had a few prerecorded commercial tapes too. Didn't Columbia House offer a few titles in reel-to-reel? I was a member, and yes I dutifully fulfilled my full-price purchase obligations. I think they must have sent me a hundred offers to rejoin after that!
I first saw a Pioneer Laserdic player in a chain called "Team Electronics" in what must have around 1980. They had it hooked up to hi-end audio system and were playing the Abba greatest hits Laserdisc. I was just amazed, it was the first time I had ever seen video with high fidelity sound.
I've never seen a MiniDisc deck, at least not that I remember.
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Post# 973706 , Reply# 11 12/14/2017 at 22:37 (2,316 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I have 2 Pioneer CT-F500 cassette decks from the 70's that look very similar to a few of those above. Last cassette tape I played was in my old Buick wagon and dont even bother with CD's now, even though I have a Sony CD/DVD player connected to my amp. If I want music, I go to the music channels on my satellite and can crank my Bose speakers.
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| Post# 976309 , Reply# 13 12/31/2017 at 12:06 (2,299 days old) by statomatic (France) | ||
Hello,
I also love vintage hifi, I have a lot of decks including some Sony (TC-K777, 750ES, 808ES, 870ES, A6ES...) and several high end cassettes. The TC-K620 is a very nice deck, just below the ES series. It shares the same mechanism chassis of the ES decks but with a different capstan drive (single capstan with a standard motor instead of dual capstan & quartz locked direct drive motor). Belt kits from ePay are counterfeit ! and doesn't brings back a deck to life I've seen this far too many times, at worst it just finish to ruin the mechanism. The parts just barely fits, sometimes the cassette can be played but with a very high wow & flutter and a risk of damaging the tapes. All theses kit sellers uses the same database full of errors (PRB cross ref) and copies the errors of the other sellers. The best way is to get belt by sizes, on the TC-K620 the small square belt is 2.5" long /0.047" section and the flat belt is 8.0" long / 0.14" wide / 0.018" thick. You might take a look at www.tapeheads.net/forums.php... (which I'm also member) there's a lot of guys with good knowledge about tape decks. | ||
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Post# 976314 , Reply# 14 12/31/2017 at 12:33 (2,299 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Here is my Technics--$8.99 at Salvation Army!
-- Dave
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