Autostop should be on the take-up side. So if the take up side stops turning , it wil stop the unit. That would help prevent tape getting tangled up in the machine. Interesting video!
What an improvement :-D The inside reminds me of an old Orian vcr with it's odd white pcb. I bet you have serviced loads of them when you worked in a shop. But the pcb looks as if it belongs to another tape deck.
I've had my KX200 since the 1980s and it's still going well. It's pretty much the same except the headphone jack is in a different place and the PCB is green.
SONY UX is underbiased under standard calibration, recording with Dolby and no adjustment you're going to lose fine details. Dolby can be a test ground for cassette tape degradation these days. Dolby is pretty much required for some kind of music, otherwise at volumes comparable to a live session it's going to introduce a very distracting hiss that can overshadow the finest low level details.
And that is why i made the move to DAT as soon as it came out. Can not stand tape hiss and the music i listen to has the dynamics to take advantage of digital recordings. I don't listen to much rock or metal. Its mostly jazz, blues and classical. Not that i don't appreciate what Elvis, Chuck berry and the Beatles did for music, i listen to them too, but for serious listening i listen to serious music where you can hear those details and textures. Tape hiss and flutter ruins this. For that matter so does vinyl.
Sounds great i just got a kx 580 only thing with some of these yamaha,s is they have well low impedance heads so if the head fails it might be hard to find a replacement but they are great decks .
I'm the type of person if I have to move something out of the way to get at something I need .. I lose it. We all have our own methods of getting the job done !
I used to keep a neet workbench and it was highly unproductive. You just need loads of bits right at hand when your fixing electronics, not to mention another 100 little drawers of other crap thats needed once a month.
The one that was hanging from wires finally packed it in last fall. Lasted 20 years as it was installed in 2002 when i built the garage. There was originally 3 purchased. One died within a few months and the manufacture sent me 2 replacements. They are still in the box. The 3rd is still in operation and it is 21 years old. Let's see an led last that long.
@@12voltvids I've got a Toshiba Microwave that was bought in 1994, been plugged in ever since - still all original including the bulb. (Well it's had a couple of fuses over the years but i'll forgive it that).
@@adamdavies163 my mother had an old Hitachi microwave. Got it around 1980 and it was still working in 2007 when it was finally scrapped. It was working but barely. Took a full 10 minutes to boil a cup of water by that point. Magnetron was probably down to under 100 watts. I have a 1989 Panasonic madam grille that is used daily. I got it in 95 from a customer that was down sizing and gave it to me. It is used pretty much every day but not as a microwave. This one is a conventional electric oven / microwave. (not convection that blows hot air) this one uses radiant heaters top and bottom. We use it pretty much to bake and broil in and the microwave part is seldom used. Sometimes to speed up a roast cooking. Anyway 34 years old only popped a switch once.
@@12voltvids Amazing how some equipment just keeps on working. 😀 That Toshiba I mentioned is a grill / microwave combi. Still seems to cook perfectly, I haven't noticed the power diminishing. VFD display is slightly dimmer I guess but that's about it.
I still do not understand why they added Dolby C on simple two heads recorders, it never sounds right. Dolby C requires tape calibration (both level and bias) and head frequency response must be decently flat. The emphasis/de-emphasis employed by Dolby C is pretty heavy so unless the playback is perfectly matched with the record, it will cause sound artefacts.
I had an Aiwa ADF 410 for years after I foolishly px'd my Teac A-103 for it. When that died a Yamaha KX 580 replaced it. It doesn't have the gorgeous analogue VU meters or the mechanical controls of the TEAC that I miss but 20 years later it still astounds. I have since bought two more KX 580s as back ups. I'd buy a Nak or a JVC 3 head but they are silly money now and made of pure unobtanium in any case.
You know what cleans the heck out of your hands better than anything else? Synthetic steel wool. The green pads. Give it a shot.
Autostop should be on the take-up side. So if the take up side stops turning , it wil stop the unit. That would help prevent tape getting tangled up in the machine.
Interesting video!
What an improvement :-D
The inside reminds me of an old Orian vcr with it's odd white pcb.
I bet you have serviced loads of them when you worked in a shop.
But the pcb looks as if it belongs to another tape deck.
is this an old video? when you were talking about how long the bulbs lasted, you said it was now 2018
I've had my KX200 since the 1980s and it's still going well. It's pretty much the same except the headphone jack is in a different place and the PCB is green.
SONY UX is underbiased under standard calibration, recording with Dolby and no adjustment you're going to lose fine details.
Dolby can be a test ground for cassette tape degradation these days. Dolby is pretty much required for some kind of music, otherwise at volumes comparable to a live session it's going to introduce a very distracting hiss that can overshadow the finest low level details.
And that is why i made the move to DAT as soon as it came out. Can not stand tape hiss and the music i listen to has the dynamics to take advantage of digital recordings. I don't listen to much rock or metal. Its mostly jazz, blues and classical. Not that i don't appreciate what Elvis, Chuck berry and the Beatles did for music, i listen to them too, but for serious listening i listen to serious music where you can hear those details and textures. Tape hiss and flutter ruins this. For that matter so does vinyl.
Sounds great i just got a kx 580 only thing with some of these yamaha,s is they have well low impedance heads so if the head fails it might be hard to find a replacement but they are great decks .
Marantz also included DBX on some of their portable units.
You work in such a mess I’m surprised you don’t lose half the screws and components you take out of what you’re repairing . 😢
If it ain't broke...
I'm the type of person if I have to move something out of the way to get at something I need .. I lose it. We all have our own methods of getting the job done !
I used to keep a neet workbench and it was highly unproductive. You just need loads of bits right at hand when your fixing electronics, not to mention another 100 little drawers of other crap thats needed once a month.
It's 2018 now...What? 🤣How's the CFL doing 5 years later?
The one that was hanging from wires finally packed it in last fall. Lasted 20 years as it was installed in 2002 when i built the garage. There was originally 3 purchased. One died within a few months and the manufacture sent me 2 replacements. They are still in the box. The 3rd is still in operation and it is 21 years old. Let's see an led last that long.
@@12voltvids I've got a Toshiba Microwave that was bought in 1994, been plugged in ever since - still all original including the bulb. (Well it's had a couple of fuses over the years but i'll forgive it that).
@@adamdavies163 my mother had an old Hitachi microwave. Got it around 1980 and it was still working in 2007 when it was finally scrapped. It was working but barely. Took a full 10 minutes to boil a cup of water by that point. Magnetron was probably down to under 100 watts. I have a 1989 Panasonic madam grille that is used daily. I got it in 95 from a customer that was down sizing and gave it to me. It is used pretty much every day but not as a microwave. This one is a conventional electric oven / microwave. (not convection that blows hot air) this one uses radiant heaters top and bottom. We use it pretty much to bake and broil in and the microwave part is seldom used. Sometimes to speed up a roast cooking. Anyway 34 years old only popped a switch once.
@@12voltvids Amazing how some equipment just keeps on working. 😀 That Toshiba I mentioned is a grill / microwave combi. Still seems to cook perfectly, I haven't noticed the power diminishing. VFD display is slightly dimmer I guess but that's about it.
Started scrolling the comments while waiting for ads to finish. Why is he asking about our football league? Then clicked on replies. Duh.🤦♂️
I still do not understand why they added Dolby C on simple two heads recorders, it never sounds right. Dolby C requires tape calibration (both level and bias) and head frequency response must be decently flat. The emphasis/de-emphasis employed by Dolby C is pretty heavy so unless the playback is perfectly matched with the record, it will cause sound artefacts.
I have same deck. When recording it's "add" low tap tap tap sound to left.. what component is bad??? I don't have good oscilloscope to find that.
I had the same issue with my 400U, and it's likely a grounding issue with the mechanism, or a routing issue with the routing of the head wires.
@18:00 -are those plastic style rivets or soft metal?? That's HORRIBLE
sounds a lot better after
was that my deck? i have one
What a messy work :-((( Geeezaz !!!
Dolby ‘C’ is just two Dolby ‘B’ chips .
oh a yamahahahaha
I had an Aiwa ADF 410 for years after I foolishly px'd my Teac A-103 for it. When that died a Yamaha KX 580 replaced it. It doesn't have the gorgeous analogue VU meters or the mechanical controls of the TEAC that I miss but 20 years later it still astounds. I have since bought two more KX 580s as back ups. I'd buy a Nak or a JVC 3 head but they are silly money now and made of pure unobtanium in any case.