The Pioneer CT-F505 Cassette Deck: I Found It In A Stranger's Living Room
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- I did a belt change on this beautiful Pioneer CT-F505 cassette deck from 1978 that I found at an estate sale. This tape player is in almost perfect condition and plays great.
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This is a show and tell of the Pioneer machine itself; all the features as well as a look inside and some basics of how to change the main belt.
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What a great score! And nice strategy for the estate sale, sounds like you beat those people just hunting for "eBay Gold".... Interesting order on the tape type buttons, on the CT-F650 I have here from the following model year, it's STD, CrO2, Fe-Cr, and Metal...
Classic deck you got there, get that pioneer receiver going and they will be a great combo
Thanks. That's my hope. 😁
LIKE number 1 which is always fun. I love vintage brushed aluminum/steel cassette decks by Pioneer, Sony, Akai, Sharp, Toshiba, etc. and I always get a kick out of Vu meters. :)
Ya! They're fun. :)
That’s stunning
Nice unit!
Nice find. I love the aesthetics of it. This should have a prominent spot in your hi-fi system. If you ever find a type III tape, you'll be fixed.
That flywheel is cool. Don't think I've ever seen that.
Nice find the pioneer stuff is really well made .
Thank you. I was stoked. Hopefully I can get the other Pioneer piece working.
These videos may suck, but I still enjoy them! 😀 Always look forward to your estate sale finds and what you'll come up with next. Makes me want to start doing that myself.
Thank you. Dude, totally do it. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, you have to get up early and stand outside in the cold for an hour but once you're in there it's a blast.
I have a friend that does that here in Maine. He has a 2 car garage full of vintage gear! I buy a lot from him, but wonder what I can come uo with myself. I'm also a metal fan going way back to growing up in the 70's with my beloved Sabbath. Love your channel. Keep on shopping! @@AudioThrift
Looks like a great find, that Pioneer is gorgeous and could almost pass for new in box! And wow the size of that flywheel, I think it's the biggest I've ever seen in a cassette deck other than an oddball Russian manufacture one I saw a video for where the motor looked a bit small--small for a vacuum cleaner or car starter that is! :D Looks like it pairs nicely with that Pioneer receiver, hope it''s not too much trouble to bring it back to life!
Haha. Thanks.
You’re right, it almost looks like it just came out of the box! Back then the style and materials used were great. Those piano key style buttons kind of make me nervous, I remember a couple of models from the late 8Os were using very cheap plastic and they would inevitable brake at the base where they hang from a metal rod, but this one looks to be built like a tank 😊
I'll be honest, I think the keys were some kind of plastic material but if nothing else, they felt relatively solid compared to a few I've tried.
That's a great tape deck. It's not top of the line, but it's on the rare scale, just because of the black meter faces. And speaking of meters, they have some great ballistics - no slow, sticky, or stuttery needles there. FWIW - I've found that Frank Zappa's tune G SPOT TORNADO (It's on Jazz From Hell) is the best tune I've found for testing meter response.
Definitely looking forward to to the SX-790 video. That's a stunningly gorgeous version of that line. Black faces look great on that range of receivers.
The Watchman is neat from a collector's standpoint, but they don't receive digital broadcast, so they're rather less than useful. Still a neat piece that someone will want. If it was me, I'd keep the SX-790 and either do the repairs or have it repaired. I say that because I doubt you'll ever find another.
Great Video - cheers!
Thank you! Interesting thought in the Frank Zappa song. I'm gonna try that. I have a few really heavy metal songs that I use to test speakers since the crunchy distortion is more challenging... but it makes no motion on VU meters so I'll try that Zappa song for that. :)
The TV has an antenna input that I can hook my old Super Nintendo up to so I'm curious if I can get the thing to work that way. It would be funny to see if I can actually see to play on a screen that small.
@@AudioThrift If it has an antenna input, that may work, but you may need some adapters. Never done it, but I know it may require some sort of RF Modulator to make it work.
@Kane26510 Yeah, it's got a little jack next to the antenna. I gave in to temptation and opened it when I bought it... oops. lol
@@Kane26510 The RF modulator is in the game system. All you need is a little converter piece. 3.5mm to F.
I have a ton of portable TVs and boomboxes with TVs in them. Even a few color ones and a portable VCR with a color screen built in. Totally useless today.
Just how mad are these estate sales? Are we talking Thunderdome levels of violence? I see your Memorex tape is sonically welded, like that MCA tape in that awesome Shape MRK 10 shell like Warner Brothers used from around 1984 to 1992, though theirs had screws! Polygram used the sonically welded versions too, (Pretty Woman, Pyromania, Hysteria). Guess you'll have to carefully glue a new pressure pad in there. I'm going to be that old guy in the museum, aren't I? "I was with my mother in 1992 when she bought this cassette of Robert Palmer's Don't Explain in a music shop in a small shopping arcade in Sydney. She asked the man for....." To be fair though, there are grown adults with children today who never used cassettes. See if those estate sales have any Bowers & Wilkins loudspeakers. The DM 220, 330, 110 have lovely 8 inch midbass drivers which have frames made of die cast zinc, with vented magnets. They have a blue or red ring around them, which is a semi-hard rubber gasket covering the edge of the surround. Well worth your time, especially the 220s and 330s.
It really depends on the sale and whether there's more than one going on at a time. The dealers here tend to go after mid century furniture and art. Sometimes tools. A lot of times, newer electronics and clothes go untouched for days until the sale companies start giving stuff away for free just to get it out of the house. Sunday afternoons can get you a ton of free stuff... assuming you want any of it.
Do you have a store? You don't keep every vintage audio piece?
Great find BTW
Nah, I don't keep 'em. I can't afford to hold on to stuff. We sell at the Palm Springs Vintage Market every month and I try to get my money back there.
I wouldn't worry about capacitors causing the DB needles being off. These things are notoriously meaningless. Like if you record a test signal in 1 deck at exactly 0db, it will come in low or high in any other deck.
Once you find a level its recordings sounds good with, just always use that level for that tape. You can adjust them if you have a professionally recorded test tape with an exact known 0db signal, but I think the meters are more for show anyway. They do look cool.