1989 Pioneer CT-656 Cassette Deck playing music
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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My 1989 Pioneer CT-656 3 head Casette Deck playing some music.
I made the recordings on this same deck a few days ago. Source was a CD player, recorded on a used TDK Chrome tape.
Tracks recorded with adjusted Bias and Dolby HX pro. Only on track 2 Dolby C is also enabled.
I was surprised by the quality of this deck. It wasn't a cheap deck in its days clearly seen by its build quality like aluminium face plate and excellent electronics. The only thing i had to fix was clean the controls, they were a lit scratchy.
Just judge the quality by yourself. I will try it with a metal tape as soon as i find one.
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Music:
Adele - Rolling in the deep,
Adele - If it hadn't been for love,
Katie Melua - 2 bare feet,
Joss Stone - Could have been you.
Love to have one or more of these great machines.
Actually, these Pioneer recorders have VU-scale meters. You can record up to +4...+6 dB VU with no distortion AT ALL using just regular chrome or ferric tapes. More level = less noise
Yes i noticed you can record far beyond the 0 dB point without distortion (depends a bit on the Bias setting).
Thats why i love those 3 head machines. Record, directly monitor the recording and find the highest level without distortion on the fly.
Yep! But there are different scales out there. I've met three types where 0 dB meant different magnetic flux. 160 nWb/m(your deck, also known as 0 VU), 200 nWb/m(Dolby Level, on some DENON decks, pointed as 0dB) and 250 nWb/m(Standard DIN 0 dB) If you record a tape on your deck up to 0 dB, it will play approx -4 dB on a standard scale deck. Meaning that +4 is actual 0dB. Beyond that, depends on tape. Usually, a normal ferric tape can hold up to +6 spikes. Nice deck BTW! Love pioneers. Really built to last.
blackhawk606 thanks for the information! very interresting!
this deck still runs on its original belt. the only thing i had to do to it was clean the potentiometers and the heads.
Can you transfer these cassette versions to high qualtiy mp3 files to listen too?
Nice
Thanx for the great video! tape-deck looks awesome, underrated gear. But why is there no backlight inside the deck??? I have only seen that MKII hast front light, but this one is without light?
Sumantrii ngenger bapak dalangnya pioneerkelakoni.
lag of the tape turn is normal? i havn't this in my ct666
It was a wrong setting in the video editting software. My video was 1080P 24 and i editted the video on 1080P 25. So it is missing a frame every few seconds.
The tape runs smooth. I love this tape deck.
woh ok it's good :D
can you make photo with position of calibration resistors on plate?
Which calibration resistors do you mean? Like the bias calibration on the PCB?
Nice