love it! nothing like cramming two different formats into one small unit and hoping it is reliable! Ah, car stereos are so much more interesting that Apple/Android car play!
Well, maybe. But it will still definitely reduce the likelihood of specialist break-in just to get a car stereo in general. They would know this is much harder to sell if it can only be handed off to someone looking for this specifically. Maybe this was more unusual back when. But especially nowadays, these things are usually so integrated they are not worth the effort to transplant to another brand even if possible anyway. Part of the dashboard even. It will at least eliminate 2/3 of the type burglars considering it. So only the "scrounging for the next fix" type left. Those are likely to trash the car even to only find you didn't actually have a stereo though. 😞
Glad you did not destroy this one like the one from This Does not Compute where you butchered the board and solder joints just because the caps were leaking. It would have been better to ask for help or leave it alone instead of destroying all the traces and pads and rip it apart like a dinosaur does with a sheep in Jurassic Park. I still have nightmares.
@@rammes1 watch "my dcc deck repair did not go quite as hoped" on the channel "this does not compute", minute 4:40 and on (a video from 3 years ago). He had a slightly damaged Board and then he sent it to the dcc Museum and it came back all scratched, all contact Pads ripped off. who knows what they were thinking but the only thing they did to his deck Was ruin it fully and add a Transport damage to it. You can use a fibreglass pen or repair the traces but they just went wild and scratched it probably with a knife or sharp screw driver on delicate already weakened Pads. A real expert could have easily repaired this. I dont know who did this (what Person) but they say dcc Museum did that in the video. Not quite a Museum grade Work. It's like Washing Mona Lisa with break cleaner and send it back to the original owner, it's disgusting. Now they have new Boards made, which is at least a bit helpful because they seem not to work on original condition stuff in any way shape or Form acceptable.
That's a pretty cool unit. I wish I had one in my car. I have two Philips DCC 900s and two Sony MDS-JE 500 Minidisc decks in need of repair. Can you guys help me?
All bad formats combined, Mini disk, compact cassette and DCC. Only the CD players did good audio back then, loved the multi CD changer players. BOSE was trying to offer premium audio systems by dealerships.
There was nothing inherently bad about the Compact Cassette format, but there were so many cheap and badly designed implementations available over the years that the average Jo(e) could be forgiven for thinking that it was. Had Philips licensed the format, they could have imposed minimum specs that a cassette deck had to comply with in order to fit into different "quality" categories, but that was sadly an opportunity lost. I have two cassette decks sitting here right now from the mid-90s that are capable of overall record/playback performance that makes them hard to distinguish from a CD if decent tapes are used in conjunction with Dolby HX Pro and Dolby C, and neither have ever eaten or damaged a cassette tape due to correct maintenance as per the user manuals. I really wish people who don't understand the format would stop trashing it.
i'm a Minidisc fan...so i don't think there's anything bad about the format...the portables can be subject to various fails...don't ever drop one...but i have 7 working and 1 MZR55 not working...Cassette decks...i have 3 and quite a few or portables...DCC i've never had the pleasure of owning unfortunately...CD's might be arguably clearer sound than cassette but no other advantage...and too prone to scratching like all open disks...Minidisc is a clear winner in that department...even tapes are safer if you are experienced enough to clean pinch rollers and no chewed tape...i'm an enthusiast so i do know...if you're not into maintenance like most then stick to CD's or HDD storage
Mend it Mark is a great channel 👍
Just shows precise how to do electronics
Great work and what a nice story👍 also great to see the power and reach of the internet in a good way like it should be😊
love it! nothing like cramming two different formats into one small unit and hoping it is reliable! Ah, car stereos are so much more interesting that Apple/Android car play!
A design in car audio that always benefits the manufacturer. This was never about theft.
Well, maybe. But it will still definitely reduce the likelihood of specialist break-in just to get a car stereo in general. They would know this is much harder to sell if it can only be handed off to someone looking for this specifically.
Maybe this was more unusual back when. But especially nowadays, these things are usually so integrated they are not worth the effort to transplant to another brand even if possible anyway. Part of the dashboard even.
It will at least eliminate 2/3 of the type burglars considering it. So only the "scrounging for the next fix" type left. Those are likely to trash the car even to only find you didn't actually have a stereo though. 😞
Hope to see part 3 soon!
Nerds nerding away..... love it :)
Mooi mannen ! DCC is great
I never knew there were DCC or MiniDisc car stereos. :O
Glad you did not destroy this one like the one from This Does not Compute where you butchered the board and solder joints just because the caps were leaking. It would have been better to ask for help or leave it alone instead of destroying all the traces and pads and rip it apart like a dinosaur does with a sheep in Jurassic Park. I still have nightmares.
who butchered the board?
@@rammes1 watch "my dcc deck repair did not go quite as hoped" on the channel "this does not compute", minute 4:40 and on (a video from 3 years ago). He had a slightly damaged Board and then he sent it to the dcc Museum and it came back all scratched, all contact Pads ripped off. who knows what they were thinking but the only thing they did to his deck Was ruin it fully and add a Transport damage to it. You can use a fibreglass pen or repair the traces but they just went wild and scratched it probably with a knife or sharp screw driver on delicate already weakened Pads. A real expert could have easily repaired this. I dont know who did this (what Person) but they say dcc Museum did that in the video. Not quite a Museum grade Work. It's like Washing Mona Lisa with break cleaner and send it back to the original owner, it's disgusting. Now they have new Boards made, which is at least a bit helpful because they seem not to work on original condition stuff in any way shape or Form acceptable.
🤓 good work
That's a pretty cool unit. I wish I had one in my car. I have two Philips DCC 900s and two Sony MDS-JE 500 Minidisc decks in need of repair. Can you guys help me?
Happy to help with the DCC part. You can reach us as the dcc museum
I had this radio in a 2000 Cadillac Seville back then.
I am minidisc user in the UK, is there a way to contact Shazad?
I have one dcc desk no audio why
Bad caps on the digital boards
u sound very dutch to me
ffs
All bad formats combined, Mini disk, compact cassette and DCC.
Only the CD players did good audio back then, loved the multi CD changer players.
BOSE was trying to offer premium audio systems by dealerships.
There was nothing inherently bad about the Compact Cassette format, but there were so many cheap and badly designed implementations available over the years that the average Jo(e) could be forgiven for thinking that it was. Had Philips licensed the format, they could have imposed minimum specs that a cassette deck had to comply with in order to fit into different "quality" categories, but that was sadly an opportunity lost.
I have two cassette decks sitting here right now from the mid-90s that are capable of overall record/playback performance that makes them hard to distinguish from a CD if decent tapes are used in conjunction with Dolby HX Pro and Dolby C, and neither have ever eaten or damaged a cassette tape due to correct maintenance as per the user manuals. I really wish people who don't understand the format would stop trashing it.
How was MD bad
Pretty hard not to get above the noise floor of a car anyway..😺
i'm a Minidisc fan...so i don't think there's anything bad about the format...the portables can be subject to various fails...don't ever drop one...but i have 7 working and 1 MZR55 not working...Cassette decks...i have 3 and quite a few or portables...DCC i've never had the pleasure of owning unfortunately...CD's might be arguably clearer sound than cassette but no other advantage...and too prone to scratching like all open disks...Minidisc is a clear winner in that department...even tapes are safer if you are experienced enough to clean pinch rollers and no chewed tape...i'm an enthusiast so i do know...if you're not into maintenance like most then stick to CD's or HDD storage
Wolverhampton is not part of Birmingham.