Awesome! Back in 1990, I had an Aiwa walkman, and the sound on it was just incredible for a cassette tape player!

I like hearing the old CD player sounds.

I miss thrifting so much!

Love the CD player! I always liked the smaller form factor because I'd have 2 of them going into a mixer so I could just sit and seg music. :)

That's funny and interesting. Mom and Dad once had a CD changer from 1989 that played CD-Rs just fine, and without static too.

I remember back in the 1990s when Sony had a brand of tape cassettes called _CD-IT_ and some of those included 54-minute, 74-minute, and 94-minute recording lengths. I also remember being told that when it came to recording onto tape cassette not to go any higher than 90 minutes since anything higher than 90 minutes would put a whole lot stress on the motor of the tape cassette recorder to pull that much extra tape since they were only designed to playback and record 90-minute cassettes especially 120 minute cassettes. I wore out my mom's dual-deck tape cassette recorder by recording too-many tape cassettes on it that exceed 90 minutes in length, so she ended up replacing it.

I own that player. As every old CD player, it can't read RW discs. Although it reads CD-r just fine. If it struggles with a CDR it is because it has been burned incorrectly/too fast/on a worn out drive. Also, when it closes the tray and ejects it immediately it is because it didn't clamp up the disc. You should replace the loader belt.

Nice find on that Top Gun sound track! LOVE Danger Zone by Loggins!

Supposedly Sony EF tapes were not marketed in North America. Mine has the URLs for the Sony Asia and Sony Europe web sites on the wrapper. I need to get more CD-Rs anyway, so I'll try the "professional grade" JVC/Taiyo Yuden discs recommended below.

You certainly have a.... Unique taste in music. Love your content, keep it up!

Very good music ... like it

Epic soundtrack!

I found a 1988 CD player from Aiwa too, read great my old CD-R and my fresh recorded ones, however, I want to know if listening to CD-R discs would damage the lens.

Nice score,nice cd player

That unit opens like my mid 90's Samsung CD/TAPE/AM FM/PHONO system. Where the tray drops DOWN onto the motor vs the motor being lifted to the CD.

Cool stuff bud..

The CDs that it spits out seem to be in the same position when they go in and come out. So I suspect the belt for the drawer mechanism could be lose and the drawer doesn't close all the way. And as all cd trays do, it reverses the direction. But not sure why it would only do with some CDs

Older CD players tend to play CD-Rs and CD-RWs much better when they're burned at a lower speed. My CD changer is from the early '90s too, and it plays slower burned CDs perfectly, but has a lot of problems with the higher speed ones.

I have about 3 or 4 of those Sony EF tapes. They sound pretty decent about the same as the HF series.

wonderfull thing there

Just going to play a CD on a furniture CD player and listen to some bric-a-brac cassettes, huh?

@expgretaillegacy

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah!!!!!

also you may try canned air over the unit once you open it all so check for dust around where disk lies when door is open use a damp cloth to wipe it out

Thrift stores are great. Lately I’ve been a tad disappointed in their offerings.

Sounds good

Put it on our radio station.

I know that problem with CD players that are picky playing CR-Rs. I have a Sony one that is very picky. It plays CD-RWs just fine, but struggles hard with CD-Rs. Using Taio Yuden discs fixed the problem for me.

What is the difference between a CD-R and a store bought CD? Is there another name for the media that is used in commercial CDs, or is it simply the burning method that's used that determines the difference?

I used to have that exact Aiwa cd player. It wasn't too bad. The bookshelf system it went with wasn't that great though.

I have had trouble with those exact TDK CD-R discs with that crop circle pattern on them Not every CD player I have would play them. Not an issue anymore since I have my iPod.

Great CD player

Very nice

Nice little player, I wonder what the technical reason for it not playing CDRWs is.

yes.. you require more laser power to read CDRs since even if the data is read the same way, the way the reflections are made is totally different so yes.. you need more power or better laser to play CDRs.

Those EF tapes were quite common here in México.

vwestlife, how do you properly clean a laser? Also my emerson boombox plays CD-Rs with much more scrachyness, so I wonder if the laser is burned out. It seems the CD player on that particular boombox isn't too reliable though.

@vwestlife

9 жыл бұрын

armanelgtron With a Q-Tip and rubbing alcohol.

@armanelgtron4533

9 жыл бұрын

Ok thanks, will try it.

And I thought B&B was bed and breakfast ;)

@ShiftaelV2

6 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Beavis and Butthead, hehehe huhuhuhhuh ;) And side note, does anyone remember when CD players originally came out how uber expensive they were, even the more simple ones?

Sony EF tapes are pretty much HF tapes, they replaced the HF line here in Mexico in the last years they were selling tapes at retail stores.

Sony EF were regular finds here in Chile.

$2.42?? What an enigmatic price!

Cool! I had never seen that Aiwa model before. But it looks cheap. (witch is a shocker for the "Aiwa" brand name.)

Keep each music clip played to less than 30 seconds.

That Aiwa CD player is made by Sony the CD laser is a dead giveaway. Sony KSS series laser mechanism with a Sony circuit board ☺ made in Singapore they also made other low end CD players for various brands like Sanyo etc...

do you still have the aiwa

This player doesn't have problems playing CD-Rs; it appears the optical pickup is fine (looks like a Sony KSS series, probably a KSS-210A). What it does have a problem with is physically loading a CD-R; the times where it just spits the disc out, it seems like it couldn't clamp onto the disc. When it does clamp on the disc and begins reading it, it doesn't appear to have problems reading the disc's TOC and playing back the tracks (which is why I don't believe it's the pickup). Although it's curious that it works fine with regular CDs but not CD-Rs, I'd suspect a worn loading belt, which is concealed by a plastic shroud forward of the spindle motor. It may be the same drive used in model 1 Sega CD units employing a Sony drive. The belt is suspect because of the player's age.

@HBC101TVStudios

5 жыл бұрын

Aiwa was owned by Sony, so don't be surprised by how similar they look like when it comes to it's products.

@armanelgtron4533

5 жыл бұрын

That doesn't really explain the scratchiness when playing a burned CD, though.

Nice finds! That CD player looks much newer than a '91. I thought it was from the late 90's when I first saw it. The Top Gun soundtrack is SOOO stereotypical 80's. I've always wondered why certain CD players can't play CDR's. Is it because burned discs need a stronger laser to read them? I can understand that it can't play CD-RW's as most standard CD player's can't play them unless specially designed to.

@naerunae

4 жыл бұрын

I remember it's about CD-R being another new standard and vintage CD players simply don't recognize CD-R's.

I saw EF 60 & 90 Cassette before in book store in my place but not much

We got the same Aiwa CD players!

Precise!

be nice player for the optimus sta -300 you have i,m been looking for years for a optimus sta- 300 stereo reciever but i do like the cd player .

Now I don't feel as geeky, Top Gun is one of my all time favorite movies so when I seen the soundtrack at Goodwill I snatched it, I had it on Cassette long ago but it broke then I seen a cd at a garage sale and grabbed it without checking it ended up being a burnt copy so when I seen it at Goodwill the 1980's release on CD I snagged it lol

I've had experience with a very old Teac PD-P1 personal CD playing doing that scratchy sound thing with commercially pressed CD's, but that's another story, on my CD player the scratchy sound gets worse as you progress through the disc, your CD player doesn't seem to do that, still the music isn't really comfortable to listen to when it sounds like that. The Top Gun CD sounded OK though, nice clean audio, I'd have liked a bit more bass, but you were just connecting the CD to the camera

I burned another CD-R at 1X speed and playback on the Aiwa was still poor.

@naerunae

4 жыл бұрын

Vintage CD players might only able to read pressed CDs, it's about CD-R being a newer standard and they need to factor that in when they're designing a CD player.

i love creed

I found an old aiwa dx m90m in my the former room of my dad when cleaning my grandma's house. It still seems to work, but.... I don't know how! And I can only find service manuals online. Any tips? Can somebody help me? Wish y'all a sunny day

@josephpena9928

5 жыл бұрын

Go to elektrotanya.com

Try burning at very low speeds. It get's annoying but the quality and low fail rate are worth it.

clean and grease the CD lens track rails if it begins to skip as the grease is usually old and dry and will cause skipping

I am really late to the party here, but this was the first cd player that was in a price range I could deal with. It worked fine for many years...till it didn't. Just one day it made weird noises and ejected the disc. I remember I had it hooked up to a Yorx all in one system, which was quite good if you used good speakers and not the crap it came with! I had five speakers on each channel spread around my bedroom, and the Yorx was quite good, and loud enough to make downstairs complain! Thanks for a memory jog Kevin.

12:26 RolyUnGashaa - The High Life!! (produced by my friend N-Vision)

try washing the disk with mild dish soap and warm water pat dry no paper towel it will scratch the disk

I don't know if this would work, but try burning music on to a Music CD-R instead of a Data CD-R. Just a shot in the dark.

My denon player hates CDRs too.

Sony EF?

@vwestlife

6 жыл бұрын

Sony EF!

@4:09 KEN MASTERS.

B & B also means Bed and Breakfest.

AIWA were a bit touch about what cd to play sometimes it would play CD'R and CD'RW i don't know why but it is what you buy

AIWA DX-N3 Fecha Fabricado el Año 2001 o 2002

what song is that at 12:07?

@vwestlife

7 жыл бұрын

Suzy Bogguss - "Just Like The Weather"

@graboid116

7 жыл бұрын

VWestlife thanks I haven't heard that 1 in a while

@helenzanni5698

7 жыл бұрын

VWestlife do you still have the aiwa

You should see inside an mid-90s Sony CD player it has like NO circuit boards! Here is a video: Sony CDP-292, ajustement de la puissance laser It is not by me!

@armanelgtron4533

7 жыл бұрын

The front panel integrates everything, by the looks of it

RolyUnGasha!

12:50 = New Order “Vicious Streak”. c. 2001

3:40 GTA V LOS SANTOS ROCK RADIO

Anyone know the song at 12:58?

@zangl2955

7 ай бұрын

Aghh shazam isn’t helping

@vwestlife

7 ай бұрын

"Vicious Streak" by New Order.

Do you want to sell that component???

@vwestlife

5 жыл бұрын

I don't have it anymore.

I believe they finalized the discs back in the day a little bit different and that has something to do with the playback quality. I think it's got to be something simple that the monopolizing companies don't want us to know so we can't use old electronics like always.

that screw looks like ground to me.

BnB isnt "Bed'n'Bath", its "Bed'n'Breakfast"

@vwestlife

2 жыл бұрын

In this context, it's bed & bath.

@TheLumpenMaoist

2 жыл бұрын

@@vwestlifefair, didnt know that, too used to how we name tings here in England

@TheLumpenMaoist

2 жыл бұрын

@@vwestlife also, big respect, your content is great, I really love cassettes, and watching you tinker about and have a gander at all these different electronic products is great; as an Autistic person, I can happily say your content is certified Autism Friendly content, you tend to leave very few stones unturned, which is great for us autistic folks, as the left frontal lobe being more active in autists, causes us to be hyperanalytical, so we really enjoy breaking things down to their finer components, seeing how things work; because your videos typically break the most important factors and attain to the logical questions one has about a products functions, that its great to watch your videos, theyre useful as a tape enthusiast, and theyre satisfying to watch as a Neurodivergent individual, keep making rockin content geezer

DM band yuk!

Bed & Breakfast

There's no cassette player in that device.

I have top gun on vinyl lol