This thing is crazy. It’s this giant cassette deck with an ultimate late '70s look to it. Those huge vertical VU meters, LED “Spectropeak” display, that power button, those piano keys, beautiful.
It’s in impeccable condition, all the knobs are there, not even a scratch on the cassette door window.
It’s massive, super heavy and huge. Inside it’s amazing, it’s a basic single motor mechanism but everything’s huge in there. Huge motor, gigantic flywheel, and some kind of internal secondary chassis to hold stuff in place. Belt’s slack though, at least it ain’t goopified.
It doesn’t do Dolby but has ANRS and Super ANRS, some kind of alternative noise reduction system.
It didn’t power up at the Renaissance but it was 15$. It will make a decoration or bookend if, as I suspect, I will never attempt to repair it.
That giant knob. Is it buttery smooth or have little clicks?
I’m guessing smooth
That’s the record level. The outer ring moves with the knob but you can also move them independently of each other. They move smoothly except when they click together at 50%.
Tonight is freezing so I thought I’d give this thing a whirl on the bench, then I realized that both knobs are smooth when I turn them with my right hand, but there’s a pop when I use my left hand.
My left hand has a pop! There’s a weird tendon/nerve/gristle in my thumb that pops only at a certain angle and when my other fingers are just so.
My body is well on its way to Walking Dead levels of decay.