Sony TC 177SD Stereo Cassette Deck Playback Test
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- This is a Vintage top of the line Sony Cassette Deck made in 1974. It was one of the last decks in Sony's lineup to be designed in the horizontal format where newer decks had vertical designs and could be stacked in a rack with all the other components such as an amplifier and tuner.
This deck is built like a tank with a top quality dual capstan transport , ferrite and ferrite heads (very hard and long lasting but incompatible with Metal type cassettes), Dolby Noise Reduction, Peak Level Meters and Normal / Ferri-Chrome / Chrome type tape support. All the buttons and knobs are metal with the top section in brushed aluminium.
You can see the sticker in the front pointing to the Azimuth adjustment wheel that was used to control the alignment of the record head relative to the playback head, to make sure that the user obtained the best possible recording for the tape used. There was an indicator light that helped with this process. Nakamichi was made famous for this feature as well as their later decks had a computer controlled version of the same thing.
For those interested, you can download the tracks from the Demonstration Cassette here :- www.dropbox.co....
I can assure you this is no fake. The mechanical sounds were captured by the microphone on the video camera while the audio was captured via the RCA output from the back of the deck to my Sony PCM-D1 (recorded at 96 kHz / 24 bit). I had to time align the video and audio in iMovie which I suppose wasn't perfect enough. I do this with all my Videos so as to give a true representation of the audio quality. There's no point capturing the sound from the speakers with a Microphone as this won't do the deck any justice. The cable on the bottom right of the video is the audio cable to the PCM-D1 and the other one at the back is the power cable. I suppose it would have been useful to pan around and show people how this was being done. One more thing, the second song on the demo cassette isn't available for download anywhere on the web and this is a true copy.
I had no idea that there were decks sounding this good back in 1974. Wow! This is what tapes were supposed to sound, basically.
It has Dolby B plus settings for Normal, FeCr and Chrome Cassettes. A superb sounding deck from the mid 1970's.
Very impressive sonics coming from this vintage deck.
The music says it all: quality that we'll never see again. 😓😪
Built to last a lifetime 👌🏻😊.
This was an awesome deck in its day.
Still is get a clean well handled one. Mine is like bran new and the belts are still get-able.
I've uploaded the tracks to a share here :-
www.dropbox.com/sh/rblx6amvd766u3w/AADKXfPyV1BcNBIJdG3_WYuea?dl=0
These tracks were recorded using my Sony PCM-D1 Digital Recorder at 96Khz / 24Bit, they're encoded in Apple Lossless format so you may need iTunes to play them back. You will hear some hiss on the recordings as these older tapes didn't use Dolby but were at least in Stereo. The tape is also played back in "Normal" position (the most basic and low quality of tape formulas). Sound is pretty good considering the 40 + odd years old for the tape.
Gregory Botha can we get the first song played too? :D
Sony's FF head was far Better sounding than All other incl Akai GX head
Now that’s a true Eject button, was eagerly waiting for it again at the end....never mind
I think you were a bit premature with your answer.
Very beautiful tape deck . Congrats.
The sticker came with the deck. It was attached to the front as you see it. Probably used as a marketing aid when displaying the deck back in the day.
Ahhh Demonstration tape. At first glance I thought that said demagnetization tape and I was freaking out over here screaming noooo don't put that thing in.... My family was a bit unnerved.
I sold this machine in a HiFi outlet in 1974 - the year it was made, and had
to wait a few years before owning one due to cost. Better than a Nak.
I've had several and still have 3 of them. Can't be touched by much yet
the Aiwa AD6700 is close. Thanks for the upload - and by the way, Naks
never did do what reputation reputed - very good yes, but there were
better.
Maybe the Denon DR-750 or the Aiwa AD-1800?
sounds amazingly tight and very musical just like a tc-k81 with new belts
I have the TC-K44, 55, 61 and 65. Hope to get the 77 or 81 next
Faded "highs" of old tapes seems to represent now same nostalgic value in sterile digital era as crackling of the vintage LP's.
Studio control panel design vintage jewell love it :-)
I have a vintage (1971) top of the line Sony Stereo Cassette-Corder FM Stereo / AM CF-610. It's been stored for 35 years but now the cassette player does not work. I'd like to get it repaired. Any ideas?
The most common failures with cassette decks are the rubber belts and rubber pulley wheels. The wheels can be cleaned using isopropyl alcohol, available from most pharmacies. Rubber belt kits are usually available from eBay. It’ll just need some mechanical cleaning and new belts. The older decks seem to respond well to this treatment unless there are any other worn out parts. There can also be issues with the electrolytic capacitors that can dry out with age, causing the sound to be low, distorted or one or other channel to not work. These issues are less common. Mechanical switches will also more than likely need cleaning with something like Caig DeoxIT. Best of luck.
I am really impressed with how you record such nicely from a cassatte player and even sounding nice on youtube upload.Welldone ,:-)
Thanks. I use a Sony PCM-D1 Digital Recorder at 96khz / 24 bit to capture the output from the deck. I was pleasantly surprised at how good this decks sounds considering that it was made in 1974, where I thought cassette tapes were still lagging way behind reel to reel machines. A highend deck for sure despite looking rather "basic". It was Sony's most expensive deck at the time, ahead of the TC-K8B which is highly regarded.
flic.kr/p/fPuGZN
The demo cassette in this video was recorded in 1972 and is a stereo reproduction.
The track listing is as follows:-
1) In The Field
2) Mollie Darling
3) 500 Miles
4) Under The Stars Of Balkan
5) Song Of Rosaria
I recall my dad had this demonstration cassette, as supplied with his (long since replaced) Sony CF-620. If memory serves, the other side was blank. I never understood what "Auto Sensor" referred to. Any chance you could upload side 1 to UA-cam?
Thanks Gregory, I was looking for these songs for quite a while...
My Dad had bought it for us... when we were small
These are my parents. My father was a seaman.
AThank you! Who performs these songs? I can't find...
DIDOL TAAA ? PAMERR ??
❤
porque não colocou o som do tape ?
Excellent! Glad to find another Shadows fan.
I found a Dual C939 from 1977-79. Getting it restored
Very impressive coming from a STEREO 8 collector
Has CalTone
Wow! It seems unused. or you have left them in immaculate condition, Very nice, excellent sound, I have a Sony TC 138 SD
Thanks. See comment below which has a link to the audio files to download the original digitised tape.
Esta padre
This was THE deck I lusted after in the late 1970's, even over the Nak DT600, although the Pioneer CT9191 came pretty close to the top of my wish list. I remember back in the Summer of 1978 I was in a London HiFi shop (KJ Leisure Sound) buying the best deck I could afford (the top of the line Aiwa AD1800, which oddly enough was only 2-headed)-and during the transaction some customer without scruples grabbed the demo 177SD and walked out of the store. I guess it wasn't just me that shared a strong desire for one of these.....
But the real renaissance on cassette decks came in the early 1990s, just before recordable CDs hit the market. I managed to get a three headed Aiwa 900S that through a $80,000 system sounded pretty indistinguishable from a very high end source. But you will never beat the look of analog meters, or the clunky sounds of mechanical relays being pressed.
Awesome deck, I drooled over this in the late 1970s.
It came out earlier though, and it was very very very expensive!
... ooops ... just realised, I have already commented.
The first track is "Apache" by "The Shadows". There's a link above to download it from iTunes.
niiiiiiccccccceeeeee
Красава аппарат 👍👍👍
I want to collect old audio things
doit
It's a slippery slope once you get into it...be careful!!!
Era un sogno.. costosissimo a quei tempi.. cose così non le faranno mai più. Bellissimo
I am so missed these music on this demo tape since i grow up. Are you kind of upload and share full music onto UA-cam. Thanks a lot.
Если бы у меня был бы такой мафон, я бы хер с кем разговаривал! 😂
Incredible. Most of this is due to Sony's early adoption of MOSFET circuitry, Dolby B and CrO2 tape (Chromium Dioxide) and closed loop, dual capstan tape transport system.
I had a much older TC-160 with MOSFETs, no Dolby, but with closed loop / dual capstan, and MOSFET low noise transistors (pre-amp & playback stages). Whenever I used Maxell Type II tape, it sounded pretty damned good.
Then it hit me: Since this deck didn't have Dolby, why not speed up the tape transport, and then use something like dbx (compander)? So I did. So I sped up the transport by a factor of 4.3x . I didn't use dbx. i built an SWTP compander for it. Results were remarkable (none of this is believed to this day), this deck rivaled the Revox A77 reel to reel deck at 7.5 ips.
True story. This was a Sony TC-160, from 1971. With all of these mods, i had to roll off the EQ ...pots for each channel on the TC-160 circuit board (right under the volume slider pots).
Downside was, of course, i burned through tape heads at 4 times the rate, but it was worth it.
The frequency response of my modified Sony TC-160 using Maxell tape was 25Hz - 21 KHz, and THD was .1% at 1 db, wow & flutter remained the same, at .1%.
With the SWTP Compander, Signal/Noise ratio - dynamic range typically was around 105 db. By the time i was done, my ancient 1971 vintage Sony TC-160 cassette deck rivaled the best that Revox, Teac and Nakamichi could offer, by 1973. Only problem was, my deck burned through cassettes and erase and playback/record heads out about 6 times faster. Which is why I stocked up on these OEM Sony heads. I bought 4 of them. Back around 1981, my ancient TC-160 cassette deck would make my snobby audiophile friends' jaws drop (in a good way), when they heard it.
@Dixene Lee Cuz it was fun (a DIY project / hobby) and it sounded just as good - sometimes even better. than the Revox A77 III.
Great sounding (and looking) deck. Top loaders are the best!
Fantastic. I dig this style of deck.
Really awesome deck thanks
Great sounding deck! Does it have dolby?
Awesome!
where did you get that sticker from???
Wuao que bellesa y cuanta calidad
😊👍👍👍
Legal!
Love this tape, its hard to find now
I have to sell my in eBay it's like brand new. Thing about this deck is for the recording studio pro not the casual listening room.
@@timeWaster76 yah its will be better to use for studi recording but for its like chest and im must have 1 for my personal achievement hehe, i love thats tape in my country its hard to find then if u find its not good enough like the condition 40% broke or not full OG spear parts.
Do you use amp?
very nice deck! the eject is funny though :P
It is really for pro use and tech's love that about it.Impress you client and catch it on the fly
SUPERB
Do you have another demo cassette by Sony, also from 1972, which has the following songs?
Red River Valley, Pearly Shells, Say Si Si, Guantanamera, La Pioggia, Maui Chimes
I have that one, but I can't find it, even so it is damaged.
If you do, could you upload it?
Tks
+Pericles Vicente, I have another sealed demo tape with the following tracks on them, unfortunately not the ones you're looking for :- 1. La Bamba / 2. Greensleeves / 3. Minuet In G. Major / 4. Hokkai Bon-Uta
+Gregory Botha Thank you, I'll try to recover my own cassette and process the audio via Audacity.
机器真好
Que hermosura!
Старая школа это класс!👍
The second song in the video is "Mollie Darling".
can i youtube link for second song.
Предок Вильмы.
Звук супер и апарат хороший.
xulada!
стерео
класс
What a beauty!
I don't know what it is but to me it looks like a Sony Betamax video recorder or a an early VHS video recorder, the only difference is that it plays audio cassettes.
fake at 2,01 Time sound off - Tape transport off. It`s no orginal tape sound.
2 years later and no doubt still as thick as a plank.
If one cannot speak, one should enlist someone to do some narration.
if one cannot accept that a video that does not need any narration does not have any narration, one should enlist someone to get lost.
@@RWL2012 In your opinion it does not need narration. I would like more information that narration could provide.
СТРАНА БОЛГАРИЯ.