A lot of people don't watch the video and are going to the website and see the price in Hong Kong dollars thinking its in US dollars. The REAL price in USD is 150$!
I'm a big tapehead and have a lovely 3-head, quartz lock Tascam deck on my hi-fi. Still, I'm thinking of picking one of these up just to keep around, it looks so cool! I collect CDs, Tapes, Records, it's not just about sound quality for me, I have a DAP for that. To me, physical media is equally, if not more, about fun, and as long as this thing sounds DECENT, it seems like a whole lot of fun!!
Honestly love the concept and design of this product. It’s actually very functional if it were built with better quality. The cassette can virtually turn any old speakers or boombox Bluetooth. I know it’s more of a novelty and showpiece but I like that there is some unique functionality it offers along side it’s aesthetics
I'm pleased your daughter is listening to stories on tape. Currently I have been listening to audio books that are no longer available on my old Sony Walkman. Hard to beat. Thanks for the review. It is one of those things that looks cool but probably has little other value. At least it functions.
Actually I was surprised by the sound quality of the built in speakers. Much better then I was expecting with a device such as this. A drawback that I hear is the motor noise present in the audio signal. I would be curious what the wow & flutter looks like on this. As a novelty and conversation piece the price is not that bad. The overall build quality seems decent unlike a lot of retro devices made in this category.
I have a similar cassette adapter for MP3s. It's also very noisy, but I just press pause while using it, and the background noise of the tape transport disappears.
Interesting video. I already make MP3 players out of old cassettes and have been experimenting with bluetooth as well. The noise is due to the hubs rotating and rubbing. But they need to as the auto stop would activate if they didnt..... My fix would be a switch that would disable the auto stop when using the streamer. Or just replace the cheap effect with something better engineered.... Although to be honest my old cassette adaptor makes some noise but nowhere as much as your one does... Otherwise a great vid. I can see stuff like this finding a home with ordinary people who just want the 'odd' experience of playing cassettes.
This is a novelty, like all of these bad low cost integrated turntables we see nowadays. Nothing more. Thank you for the review, other people will not loose their money for this of, well, "new-world-of-tomorow-technology".
just looking at it i would like to disassemble the mechanism and paint the parts in primary colors.. so when theres no tape in it there wouod still be some color to it
If you look again it has dbx written huge on the left ;-) This is among if not the best Technics deck. Here is a video I made where you can explore all its characteristics: ua-cam.com/video/dFyFnKF33vo/v-deo.htmlsi=ROG6_N3D81DUWh6E
There's nothing wrong with the head on the Bluetooth tape, it's literally how they used to make those aux input tapes for using CD players on your car stereo. It's not going to harm your tape deck head. They just completely fumbled on the reels mechanism.
A car stereo isn't exactly a high end deck. It stays metal on metal. I wouldn't use this in a high end deck now there are no new heads available for them anymore.
@24:50 ouch you can hear those horns quivering even dragging it sounds like.. - I thought the loud music might mask some of the wow and flutter..not with that unit..forget quiet piano music on that junk.
Don't worry, they know...but before reivesting in this they probably want more and better numbers. They have to recreate the whole chain...much too expensive. Making turntable is extremely easy compared to tape mechanisms.
I was lucky enough to find a fully functioning Nakamichi BX-2 cassette deck, minus the reset and record pause buttons (which still works) for 50$. Way way better than the Yamaha I was using even though it’s almost 20 years older. I was super happy to find a working Nak under 100$, let alone for 50
Looks kinda cool, sounds ok-ish even though W&F is clearly noticable on the piano, it's that Tanashin-clone mech you find in most boomboxes since the 90s. Also, it doesn't record. Overall it's a little meager for the price. The BT cassette is nice but they've been around for a while now. It doesn't have much use in home HiFi but it comes in handy for classic car headunits or boomboxes without input.
Hi Guido. This is a funny device, and thanks for pointing out the low quality. It is what it is and that's fine. No one can mistake this for quality. One thought comes to mind though, and I'm not saying this to be a body part not fit to be mentioned; But doesn't the cassette crowd deserve that better products starts to hit the market? As long as manufactures get's attention from spewing out junk, what will motivate them to make something decent? Perhaps it's better to pass them in silence till they make something that actually is something. The market is clearly there, and maybe silence will give them the final kick in the body part I didn't mention before, so they start delivering. As you already know cassettes aren't my thing and I don't get why the format have had the come back that it has, but I believe people should have what they want. That's why I had to turn to the keys the second the thought hit me. Stay awesome Mate. All the best from Denmark.
A good point and reasonable but I feel that censoring won't help that much. Look at the comments here, clearly very few will buy one and I perfectly understand that. I think it's interesting to signal every new attempt with some sense.
@@anadialog Hi Guido. I don't mean censorship. In fact censorship sucks in my opinion. But you can't show every product on the market on your channel right? You have to pick the ones that kinda stands out. That's not censorship. That's just what you have a chance to overcome, and that's what I mean. Manufactures are very interested in getting their stuff presented by reviewers. Therefore it's in their interest to make something that stands out. That's the kind of motivation I'm talking about. Mechanisms, tapeheads etc. are all the same from the absolute cheapest to the most expensive machines nowadays, and as long as this is the case each and every product will be low quality compared to what the cassette crowd is yearning for. Though some once in a while make a machine with the same junk in another wrapping, with a new name and perhaps a couple of fancy gimmicks there's really nothing new to it. They are basically just trying to cash in on the weather forecast for yesterday. BUT if manufactures get their act together and start producing quality mechanisms and heads, THEN we have something that stands out. Your pick isn't in any way censorship because you are forced to choose - But what you pick or not pick can be motivating for the manufactures, and beneficial for the tape crowd. The way your channel has grown, you have become quite a force of nature in the field you know. You are not just cool as hell - You can also make a difference. May the force be with you Mate.
The problem is that nobody and I mean nobody actually makes a decent mechanism anymore. There are probably three to choose from and they are all rubbish. I have mechs from old stereos and a pile of heads that would be a million times better than the unit featured, but to do a decent job you would be looking at mega money. That unit is what $150.00? Walkmans used to be more than that 20 plus years ago.... In fact the Walkman TPS-L2 was $150.00 in 1979 and my wages then (in the Uk were around £24 a week $48). New machines are being made but they are all into four figures....... There is also no real "home" market for these just people who want to show off something different.
what an adorable device. the speakers sound surprisingly good. but the wow and flutter is terrible. or is that from the tape? its fluttering the whole time.
@@anadialog absoluty and thats why im thinking about getting it. though this would be an absolut perfect product if the wow & flutter was a little bit better.
@@anadialog I just want one that can play mostly mono tapes because most of the ones I have are from a small cassette recorder which is mono. Most of mine the belts are stretched. I have a small RCA desktop player which sort of works.
Will you make a review of the reel too reel releases of Kind of Blue and Blue Train from Hemiolia Records? It would be awesome! They are obviously releasing 200 R2R titles!
I am afraid not. They just raised the prices even more and we must remember that they are 4th generation copies. A little distant from the original. Plus, I don't like the fact that they remastered the tapes from Hermitage. In any case, if one comes through, yes I would donit, I am curious as well.
Hello, the UA-cam algorithm made me discover your video and frankly I find the concept of this device and this player really brilliant!!! when you see that we have all gone digital I have cassettes lying around in the cupboard I can see myself installing a small cube like that connected to my PC or my stereo to listen to the cassettes with the cable output the sound is really not bad I think...then I wonder why the big brands don't make this kind of device I'm sure it would be a hit with a good quality device I'm sure that that would work really well it doesn't take up any space it's cute I'm sure young people would be fed up with it... I think the price is a little high when you know it's not a big brand...lol but I'm very enthusiastic about the idea (lol obviously I'm not a big music lover but I love music like everyone else) Salut l'algorithme de UA-cam me fait découvrir ta vidéo et franchement je trouve le concept de cet appareil de ce lecteur franchement génial !!! quand tu vois qu'on est tous passés au numérique moi j'ai des cassettes qui traînent dans l'armoire je me vois bien installer un petit cube comme ça relier à mon pc ou à ma chaîne hifi pour écouter les cassettes avec le câble de sortie le son n'est vraiment pas mauvais je trouve ...après je me demande pourquoi les grandes marques ne font pas ce genre d'appareil je suis sûr qu'il ferait un carton avec un appareil de bonne qualité je suis sûr que ça marcherait à fond ça prend pas de place c'est mignon je suis sûr que les jeunes en seraient fada ... je trouve que le prix est un peu élevé quand on sait que ce n'est pas une grande marque ...lol mais je suis très enthousiasme sur l'idée ( lol évidemment je précise je ne suis pas un grand mélomane mais j'adore la musique comme tout le monde)😉
Thanks! No sense if you ask me unless they are your mixtapes. The quality of prerecorded cassettes is quite bad. Digital at that point is better. Cassettes shine when you record on them. Here are some tips on how to use them with digital: ua-cam.com/video/A1skO6rDgtA/v-deo.html
On the bluetooth tape, they could have killed 2 birds with one stone so to speak by adding a little bit of felt between the "reels" and the body of the cassette. It would add resistance and quiet the mechanical noise.
I think the adapter would only work properly with a 2 head cassette deck or one that has the record head separate from the play head. In normal 3 head decks, the play head would be offset to the side, so the gap of the adapter head does not line up with the gap of the play head anymore.
I have heard a lot worse many shoe box style mono decks do not have audio that sounds as good as this though most my old brand name mono decks were only used here for loading cassette based games .
@@anadialog Oh I have a DENON CD/Receiver and it has an aux input on the front headphones. Just wondering something like the IT'S REAL could plug into that to use the speakers. As I'm typing this I realize how dumb I am.
The tape with the guitar sounds like there's a lot of wow. But the piano tape sounds OK. Surprisingly good even for the low expectations I had. While piano is usually the hardest to listen to with high w&f. So, is it a guitar effect? In that case the guitar tape isn't very suitable as test tape because you think there are speed fluctuations which are actually part of the source signal 😁 The speaker sounded better than I thought it would. But for $150? No way. It looks cool, but more like $50 cool. But thank you for testing it out and showing it. Funny device 👍 But, metal on metal? I wouldn't let that adapter go anywhere near my good deck heads 😱 Might be good to keep a cheap 2-head deck around for these kinds of tests, or for playing tapes that you don't trust, such as mouldy tapes etc.
they just had to use the chew up drive system...the first thing i would do if i had one is to replace it with the one that uses the black rocker arm. the black rocker arm drive system has auto stop on play, rewind and fast forward. its also very common. and compatible with that one. the best drive system i use is the symmetric auto reverse quad head drive. its only for playback though. im just ordering another one from a hitachi trk-w330.
i will try too use it on douglas fir talking tree kit cassette deck though but i tried the alternative bluetooth cassette adapter anyway beside this one from the video.
My RS-85 technics like yours minus Quartz lock has mild distortion on playback - you can't really hear it but you can see it on the scope and it also needs new belts - I have no idea where to get proper belts for these Technics decks ..any ideas? I wonder if the 100 has the same belts as the 85?
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@@anadialog I am bit confused with Akai GX-F95, saw its unboxing video and couple of links as well for new piece, Akai relaunched their professional decks with this or its old stock, thanks in advance for confirming the good news if it's in production now.
Jajajaj… ya no saben que producto sacar al mercado para vender… con todo respeto ese producto se me hace una payasada… yo viví la época de los cassettes y ellos nunca morirán, pero reproducirlos ahí??? Saludos a todos y excelente video como siempre…⚡️
this kind of adapter cassette is not really new. In the late 90s, I had such a adapter cassette that had a cable with 3.5mm that one could connect to a cd disc man. That way you could listen to CDs in your old car on an old radio. So the only new thing is the Bluetooth receiver...
I used those all the time, but it's something completely different. That was a true cassette, recording music on true tape with a playback from that tape.
I make standalone MP3 players from old cassettes and have been looking at bluetooth, its a nice idea but very niche.... All the cassette adaptors make noise (ive just checked) because the hubs need to turn to 'fool' the auto stop systems. The thing to also remember is that NO new decent tapes are being manufactured and nor are mechs as well. To tool up would require an order of a min 10,000 units and thats why Sony made so many variants, they had all those mechanisms made and had to do something with them. Somewhere there may be a warehouse full of decent metal mechanisms and I would happily buy a couple of hundred as I have a nice idea for a unit.
Looks great. Sounds shite. I can't handle the wow and flutter. Maybe I'm just too used to using my Nakamichi and Yamaha decks... but even my cheap decks don't sound this bad.
A modern company could just choose an 'average' good cassette mechanism from the 1980's and copy it, and even upgrade the parts with less plastic. But no, they all want their £$ NOW, and give us shite in return!!
@@anadialogwandered back to this video because my interests always lead to the same place. I will say, there’s a point where the audio degrades to a level that unacceptable, but I never really worry about eliminating tape hiss on my cassette recordings or on my players.
No ma dai....di cosa stiamo parlando. Finche' si scherza Tutti i nuovi apparecchi hi-fi degli ultimi anni (anche molto costosi) e anche altosonanti (TEAC THORENS LENCO PIONEER ) messi a conftonto con le vecchie generazioni sembrano le sorpresine delle patatine PAI ( D you remember Pai's surprises)? 😀
Plastic, plastic, plastic. Is it really that much more hassle to build a mechanism with decent metal parts? I think most cassette enthusiasts would appreciate it, and pay (something) extra for it.
It's a shame they didn't make the bottom half transparent too as it would have sold well to inmates. All consumer electronics within prisons have to have transparent cases to prevent the the hiding of contraband.
I was dissapointed about this product if be honest. A little bit overpriced, because base tape for bluetooth connection is making a lot of noise, so you need time to cath a good position for her in speaker. Sound quality is ok, but as I expected a better. As a part of interior in your home is ok, as music player for $150 not good choice, here you pay more for «unique» idea.
You are really over polite. All this new cassette devices are a gross insult to the cassette, but this one tops it all. My ears were bleeding hearing this crap. It is a waste of material and should be thrown under a road roller and recycled for good. It is just good for making money. Pitty for the clueless people who buy this. If you want to get into cassettes, just buy an old broken Deck for less than 100 euro and give it to a good technican in your area, so you can always go back if any issues occure. You will end up paying maximum 300 to 400 euro for having somthing really nice.
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A lot of people don't watch the video and are going to the website and see the price in Hong Kong dollars thinking its in US dollars. The REAL price in USD is 150$!
I’ll stick to vintage. 😅
I'm a big tapehead and have a lovely 3-head, quartz lock Tascam deck on my hi-fi. Still, I'm thinking of picking one of these up just to keep around, it looks so cool!
I collect CDs, Tapes, Records, it's not just about sound quality for me, I have a DAP for that. To me, physical media is equally, if not more, about fun, and as long as this thing sounds DECENT, it seems like a whole lot of fun!!
Honestly love the concept and design of this product. It’s actually very functional if it were built with better quality. The cassette can virtually turn any old speakers or boombox Bluetooth. I know it’s more of a novelty and showpiece but I like that there is some unique functionality it offers along side it’s aesthetics
I'm pleased your daughter is listening to stories on tape. Currently I have been listening to audio books that are no longer available on my old Sony Walkman. Hard to beat. Thanks for the review. It is one of those things that looks cool but probably has little other value. At least it functions.
I always apreciate an honest review. GRAZIE.
Thanks!
For the price it's quite impressive and well worth a listen .
Another fascinating video, Guido! Very cool even though it’s not exactly the Nakamichi I was drooling over about 35 years ago.
I suppose it's "cute", but the mechanism makes my nephew's "My First Sony" (circa 2001) look like a professional device 🤣
Actually I was surprised by the sound quality of the built in speakers. Much better then I was expecting with a device such as this. A drawback that I hear is the motor noise present in the audio signal. I would be curious what the wow & flutter looks like on this. As a novelty and conversation piece the price is not that bad. The overall build quality seems decent unlike a lot of retro devices made in this category.
I agree. This time I didn't do the W&F test since it's a low/medium quality machine but to the ear it seems decent.
It's that Tanashin type transport. Around .25 percent if you're lucky.
I have a similar cassette adapter for MP3s. It's also very noisy, but I just press pause while using it, and the background noise of the tape transport disappears.
i was just looking at this yesterday hoping for a review lmao...this is a sign
Interesting video. I already make MP3 players out of old cassettes and have been experimenting with bluetooth as well. The noise is due to the hubs rotating and rubbing. But they need to as the auto stop would activate if they didnt..... My fix would be a switch that would disable the auto stop when using the streamer. Or just replace the cheap effect with something better engineered.... Although to be honest my old cassette adaptor makes some noise but nowhere as much as your one does... Otherwise a great vid. I can see stuff like this finding a home with ordinary people who just want the 'odd' experience of playing cassettes.
THANKS GUIDO 🤗 HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR CHANNEL 👍💚💚💚
Thx!
Forget the unit the Lightning Hopkins track is awesome.
This is a novelty, like all of these bad low cost integrated turntables we see nowadays. Nothing more.
Thank you for the review, other people will not loose their money for this of, well, "new-world-of-tomorow-technology".
A novelty cassette player , yep , that's my take on it too.
A not particularly interesting novelty. Like those stupid tiny turntables.
just looking at it i would like to disassemble the mechanism and paint the parts in primary colors.. so when theres no tape in it there wouod still be some color to it
Thank you so much for the info, about to order one from HK. Good info to make final decision
That's a nice Technics... but aside from Dolby Type B & C select-ability, I feel it has nothing on my Kawasaki K-960, which also has dbx function.
If you look again it has dbx written huge on the left ;-)
This is among if not the best Technics deck. Here is a video I made where you can explore all its characteristics: ua-cam.com/video/dFyFnKF33vo/v-deo.htmlsi=ROG6_N3D81DUWh6E
There's nothing wrong with the head on the Bluetooth tape, it's literally how they used to make those aux input tapes for using CD players on your car stereo. It's not going to harm your tape deck head.
They just completely fumbled on the reels mechanism.
A car stereo isn't exactly a high end deck. It stays metal on metal. I wouldn't use this in a high end deck now there are no new heads available for them anymore.
@24:50 ouch you can hear those horns quivering even dragging it sounds like.. - I thought the loud music might mask some of the wow and flutter..not with that unit..forget quiet piano music on that junk.
Could have sworn it was a Teenage Engineering product by design alone 😅
Guido, why don't you contact Sony and ask them to manufacture a deck with your input, there clearly is a market now.
Don't worry, they know...but before reivesting in this they probably want more and better numbers. They have to recreate the whole chain...much too expensive. Making turntable is extremely easy compared to tape mechanisms.
I was lucky enough to find a fully functioning Nakamichi BX-2 cassette deck, minus the reset and record pause buttons (which still works) for 50$. Way way better than the Yamaha I was using even though it’s almost 20 years older. I was super happy to find a working Nak under 100$, let alone for 50
Great catch!
Good for retro party .
Could be a cool present for the nephew. It it ridiculously noisy though lol
Looks kinda cool, sounds ok-ish even though W&F is clearly noticable on the piano, it's that Tanashin-clone mech you find in most boomboxes since the 90s.
Also, it doesn't record. Overall it's a little meager for the price. The BT cassette is nice but they've been around for a while now. It doesn't have much use in home HiFi but it comes in handy for classic car headunits or boomboxes without input.
Hi Guido.
This is a funny device, and thanks for pointing out the low quality. It is what it is and that's fine. No one can mistake this for quality.
One thought comes to mind though, and I'm not saying this to be a body part not fit to be mentioned; But doesn't the cassette crowd deserve that better products starts to hit the market? As long as manufactures get's attention from spewing out junk, what will motivate them to make something decent? Perhaps it's better to pass them in silence till they make something that actually is something. The market is clearly there, and maybe silence will give them the final kick in the body part I didn't mention before, so they start delivering.
As you already know cassettes aren't my thing and I don't get why the format have had the come back that it has, but I believe people should have what they want. That's why I had to turn to the keys the second the thought hit me.
Stay awesome Mate.
All the best from Denmark.
A good point and reasonable but I feel that censoring won't help that much. Look at the comments here, clearly very few will buy one and I perfectly understand that. I think it's interesting to signal every new attempt with some sense.
@@anadialog Hi Guido.
I don't mean censorship. In fact censorship sucks in my opinion. But you can't show every product on the market on your channel right? You have to pick the ones that kinda stands out. That's not censorship. That's just what you have a chance to overcome, and that's what I mean. Manufactures are very interested in getting their stuff presented by reviewers. Therefore it's in their interest to make something that stands out. That's the kind of motivation I'm talking about.
Mechanisms, tapeheads etc. are all the same from the absolute cheapest to the most expensive machines nowadays, and as long as this is the case each and every product will be low quality compared to what the cassette crowd is yearning for. Though some once in a while make a machine with the same junk in another wrapping, with a new name and perhaps a couple of fancy gimmicks there's really nothing new to it. They are basically just trying to cash in on the weather forecast for yesterday. BUT if manufactures get their act together and start producing quality mechanisms and heads, THEN we have something that stands out.
Your pick isn't in any way censorship because you are forced to choose - But what you pick or not pick can be motivating for the manufactures, and beneficial for the tape crowd. The way your channel has grown, you have become quite a force of nature in the field you know. You are not just cool as hell - You can also make a difference.
May the force be with you Mate.
The problem is that nobody and I mean nobody actually makes a decent mechanism anymore. There are probably three to choose from and they are all rubbish. I have mechs from old stereos and a pile of heads that would be a million times better than the unit featured, but to do a decent job you would be looking at mega money. That unit is what $150.00? Walkmans used to be more than that 20 plus years ago.... In fact the Walkman TPS-L2 was $150.00 in 1979 and my wages then (in the Uk were around £24 a week $48). New machines are being made but they are all into four figures....... There is also no real "home" market for these just people who want to show off something different.
what an adorable device. the speakers sound surprisingly good. but the wow and flutter is terrible. or is that from the tape? its fluttering the whole time.
It’s fun and a nice gizmo to playback cassettes for casual listening with all its flaws.
@@anadialog absoluty and thats why im thinking about getting it. though this would be an absolut perfect product if the wow & flutter was a little bit better.
Can I plug this in and not use batteries?
The wow and flutter is off the scale. 😅
Bud a nice gimmicky device.
I'm looking for a decent portable cassette deck that outputs high quality stereo sound because I want to digitize all my old tapes.
Check out this other video I made: ua-cam.com/video/F3Bv7EUhSy8/v-deo.html&feature=share9
@@anadialog I just want one that can play mostly mono tapes because most of the ones I have are from a small cassette recorder which is mono. Most of mine the belts are stretched. I have a small RCA desktop player which sort of works.
Great video !
Thanks !
Will you make a review of the reel too reel releases of Kind of Blue and Blue Train from Hemiolia Records? It would be awesome! They are obviously releasing 200 R2R titles!
I am afraid not. They just raised the prices even more and we must remember that they are 4th generation copies. A little distant from the original. Plus, I don't like the fact that they remastered the tapes from Hermitage. In any case, if one comes through, yes I would donit, I am curious as well.
I'm 48 seconds in to the video, and I'm like, "take my money".
🤣
Hello, the UA-cam algorithm made me discover your video and frankly I find the concept of this device and this player really brilliant!!! when you see that we have all gone digital I have cassettes lying around in the cupboard I can see myself installing a small cube like that connected to my PC or my stereo to listen to the cassettes with the cable output the sound is really not bad I think...then I wonder why the big brands don't make this kind of device I'm sure it would be a hit with a good quality device I'm sure that that would work really well it doesn't take up any space it's cute I'm sure young people would be fed up with it... I think the price is a little high when you know it's not a big brand...lol but I'm very enthusiastic about the idea (lol obviously I'm not a big music lover but I love music like everyone else)
Salut l'algorithme de UA-cam me fait découvrir ta vidéo et franchement je trouve le concept de cet appareil de ce lecteur franchement génial !!! quand tu vois qu'on est tous passés au numérique moi j'ai des cassettes qui traînent dans l'armoire je me vois bien installer un petit cube comme ça relier à mon pc ou à ma chaîne hifi pour écouter les cassettes avec le câble de sortie le son n'est vraiment pas mauvais je trouve ...après je me demande pourquoi les grandes marques ne font pas ce genre d'appareil je suis sûr qu'il ferait un carton avec un appareil de bonne qualité je suis sûr que ça marcherait à fond ça prend pas de place c'est mignon je suis sûr que les jeunes en seraient fada ... je trouve que le prix est un peu élevé quand on sait que ce n'est pas une grande marque ...lol mais je suis très enthousiasme sur l'idée ( lol évidemment je précise je ne suis pas un grand mélomane mais j'adore la musique comme tout le monde)😉
Glad you enjoyed that!
Hi,
Great channel!
One Question: Is it good enough to digitize cassettes?
Thanks :)
Thanks! No sense if you ask me unless they are your mixtapes. The quality of prerecorded cassettes is quite bad. Digital at that point is better. Cassettes shine when you record on them. Here are some tips on how to use them with digital: ua-cam.com/video/A1skO6rDgtA/v-deo.html
I got the feeling they reused off the shelve budget quality old stock and rearranged it with a new case.
On the bluetooth tape, they could have killed 2 birds with one stone so to speak by adding a little bit of felt between the "reels" and the body of the cassette. It would add resistance and quiet the mechanical noise.
Ordered from Hong Kong and than say, in all its Korean glory?
Kuck kuck
Thanks for the video! I love the design, but $150? No way! It's really nice though, such a shame.
I think the adapter would only work properly with a 2 head cassette deck or one that has the record head separate from the play head.
In normal 3 head decks, the play head would be offset to the side, so the gap of the adapter head does not line up with the gap of the play head anymore.
Aha! I think youvare right and mine are all 3 head!
bella recensione!
Grazie Andrea!
I would love an upgraded version of this.
interesting, can i buy it witout the bluetooth tape ?
Unfortunately no, it's a combo!
I have heard a lot worse many shoe box style mono decks do not have audio that sounds as good as this though most my old brand name mono decks were only used here for loading cassette based games .
Cassette tapes are returning
Could this plug into headphone aux port of my receiver?
I am not sure if I understood correctly. The headphone aux is an output, not an input:
@@anadialog Oh I have a DENON CD/Receiver and it has an aux input on the front headphones. Just wondering something like the IT'S REAL could plug into that to use the speakers. As I'm typing this I realize how dumb I am.
The tape with the guitar sounds like there's a lot of wow. But the piano tape sounds OK. Surprisingly good even for the low expectations I had. While piano is usually the hardest to listen to with high w&f. So, is it a guitar effect? In that case the guitar tape isn't very suitable as test tape because you think there are speed fluctuations which are actually part of the source signal 😁
The speaker sounded better than I thought it would. But for $150? No way. It looks cool, but more like $50 cool. But thank you for testing it out and showing it. Funny device 👍
But, metal on metal? I wouldn't let that adapter go anywhere near my good deck heads 😱 Might be good to keep a cheap 2-head deck around for these kinds of tests, or for playing tapes that you don't trust, such as mouldy tapes etc.
they just had to use the chew up drive system...the first thing i would do if i had one is to replace it with the one that uses the black rocker arm. the black rocker arm drive system has auto stop on play, rewind and fast forward. its also very common. and compatible with that one.
the best drive system i use is the symmetric auto reverse quad head drive. its only for playback though.
im just ordering another one from a hitachi trk-w330.
i will try too use it on douglas fir talking tree kit cassette deck though but i tried the alternative bluetooth cassette adapter anyway beside this one from the video.
can we buy the bluetooth cassette only ?
From what I understand, no
Why didn't you play China Crissis???😢
Because it blocks the entire video.
how is the audio output connected to an amplifier?
Nothing special…it is what it is
Where can I buy this?
The link to their site is in the video description
It's a high quality
My RS-85 technics like yours minus Quartz lock has mild distortion on playback - you can't really hear it but you can see it on the scope and it also needs new belts - I have no idea where to get proper belts for these Technics decks ..any ideas? I wonder if the 100 has the same belts as the 85?
Right here: www.ebay.it/itm/165675837441?hash=item26930ca801:g:B2cAAOSw-G1jIe3c&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8Kn1Bk45USaLRI2zLOglgodSWc3zS0g5FL0aJ%2BAHkv56UiuRxQhvoV6SCKt%2F1YCdZdgsETCwxvwGZTumysc6Bsh0M%2BPgjmAd8AlVseFZkHNZ10V0jd1CpJ5wVQJMGruD%2BF2mtz0K2LWZhP17HMBcqveBh7Lia8wjCyTcYStjx5NczCWCKpvMiRIoy2dJmt3s%2FqCd9%2Bl4544B8fiNYCZ9TBNbtxlU3HbglSOHWL0e%2BscMTaq%2B3V6NmkemzpcgSTLLAMRvPFIET7mUHOkGRSJrroJvzVxG1iiOeUhNB5%2Bp56sb17IEdMQIx90q%2Bx9yvxLBug%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4rKxJnxYQ
I think Sony did this right. They have a DAP with a cool screensaver showing a cassette in operation. Absolutely silent.
Are cassette tapes still available.
Yes, there is a resurgence! Mainstream artists and small bands all over the world are releasing music on cassettes.
where i can buy it? their page is from honk Kong right? somebody has bought it?
Directly from the website linked below in the video description, no other place and I have no affiliation.
how is the sound ?
Did you watch the video? It speaks for itself
Pretty depressing that none of the companies are bringing professional cassette players 😢
It's just too darn expensive :-(
@@anadialog I am bit confused with Akai GX-F95, saw its unboxing video and couple of links as well for new piece, Akai relaunched their professional decks with this or its old stock, thanks in advance for confirming the good news if it's in production now.
@12:00 naw I'd rather have something nice taking up space. Even from afar it looks annoyingly bad.
Ok, so can this thing play old cassettes and stream them to a Bluetooth speaker?
No, because the Bluetooth part IS the cassette.
@@anadialog ahh ok! … so… can this thing talk to other Bluetooth speakers
Obviously meant for only Type I tapes!
Yup
Pov : When Jurgen Klopp reviewing cassette player
This is what happens when you say: “New high quality tape decks are coming…” you’ve jinxed it!
😭
It sounds broken already 😅
Pro tip for viewers: play at 2x speed for actual talking speed 😉
Jajajaj… ya no saben que producto sacar al mercado para vender… con todo respeto ese producto se me hace una payasada… yo viví la época de los cassettes y ellos nunca morirán, pero reproducirlos ahí??? Saludos a todos y excelente video como siempre…⚡️
this kind of adapter cassette is not really new. In the late 90s, I had such a adapter cassette that had a cable with 3.5mm that one could connect to a cd disc man. That way you could listen to CDs in your old car on an old radio. So the only new thing is the Bluetooth receiver...
I used those all the time, but it's something completely different. That was a true cassette, recording music on true tape with a playback from that tape.
I make standalone MP3 players from old cassettes and have been looking at bluetooth, its a nice idea but very niche.... All the cassette adaptors make noise (ive just checked) because the hubs need to turn to 'fool' the auto stop systems. The thing to also remember is that NO new decent tapes are being manufactured and nor are mechs as well. To tool up would require an order of a min 10,000 units and thats why Sony made so many variants, they had all those mechanisms made and had to do something with them. Somewhere there may be a warehouse full of decent metal mechanisms and I would happily buy a couple of hundred as I have a nice idea for a unit.
@@Jewellerybybarrie You can get some old stock from India, but they are also not really Hi-End, but for sure better than this chinese crap.
Looks great. Sounds shite. I can't handle the wow and flutter. Maybe I'm just too used to using my Nakamichi and Yamaha decks... but even my cheap decks don't sound this bad.
A modern company could just choose an 'average' good cassette mechanism from the 1980's and copy it, and even upgrade the parts with less plastic.
But no, they all want their £$ NOW, and give us shite in return!!
Better buy an old asset deck to lick to your Hi-Fi
You know, I just don’t care too much about tape hiss. It just doesn’t bother me.
Me either but a lot of people mind
@@anadialogwandered back to this video because my interests always lead to the same place. I will say, there’s a point where the audio degrades to a level that unacceptable, but I never really worry about eliminating tape hiss on my cassette recordings or on my players.
No ma dai....di cosa stiamo parlando.
Finche' si scherza
Tutti i nuovi apparecchi hi-fi degli ultimi anni (anche molto costosi) e anche altosonanti (TEAC THORENS LENCO PIONEER ) messi a conftonto con le vecchie generazioni sembrano le sorpresine delle patatine PAI ( D you remember Pai's surprises)? 😀
È un divertissement (ovviamente)!
Screaming Tanashan.
It's Tanashin and that was a big mistake introduced by Tekmoan, corrected by VWestlife. It does not exist anymore.
That is normal for a cassette tape ok
Price send me
Price watch video
Plastic, plastic, plastic.
Is it really that much more hassle to build a mechanism with decent metal parts?
I think most cassette enthusiasts would appreciate it, and pay (something) extra for it.
Its nice..but not a 1000.00 nice. Could pay less for the cd and a nice cd player.
I think you got your numbers wrong. The price you wrote is Hong Kong dollars, which equals to 150 US dollars.
It's a shame they didn't make the bottom half transparent too as it would have sold well to inmates. All consumer electronics within prisons have to have transparent cases to prevent the the hiding of contraband.
True!
They have now made a new Version that is fully transparent
Wow n flutter city!!! No thanks. Typical modern day cassette tat mechanism. Bin fodder!!!
I was dissapointed about this product if be honest. A little bit overpriced, because base tape for bluetooth connection is making a lot of noise, so you need time to cath a good position for her in speaker. Sound quality is ok, but as I expected a better. As a part of interior in your home is ok, as music player for $150 not good choice, here you pay more for «unique» idea.
Цена какая в аппарата
It's reported at the end of the video or you can follow the link in the video description. In any case, the device + the Bluetooth cassette is $150.
Maybe $15 in the grocery store.. not $200 ... later . what a piece of crap upsold to look like a horrible apple product
WTF $1,180 bucks😒
Those are Hong Kong dollars!. The price is 150 $ USD. I said this in the video at 22:46
Its 250 cad after tax and shipping it'll be $300
No. I just checked. They finally put the price also in USD. It’s $150 + $30 for shipping to the USA. Total $180 (all the items).
I'm sad it's horrible.
Another fake cassette player. Recently saw a video of the new Sony Walkman. It fooled me... I thought it was a real cassette player.
I did as well...little trick there!
Techmoan ?
These new cassette players are generally crap.
Best thing to do is get a used Yamaha, Aiwa, Technics from the '80s.
You are really over polite. All this new cassette devices are a gross insult to the cassette, but this one tops it all.
My ears were bleeding hearing this crap. It is a waste of material and should be thrown under a road roller and recycled for good.
It is just good for making money. Pitty for the clueless people who buy this.
If you want to get into cassettes, just buy an old broken Deck for less than 100 euro and give it to a good technican in your area, so you can always go back if any issues occure. You will end up paying maximum 300 to 400 euro for having somthing really nice.
It’s perfect for my daughter! ;-)
Exact same piece of Chinese junk as the We Are Rewind. Avoid at all costs