the golden age of top quality music, quality and robust devices

@artyfhartie2269

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When stuff were made well and greed had not taken full control of companies

@nedeljkooctenjak9690

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@@artyfhartie2269 I completely agree

@domi7007

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The golden age of quality sound was in the 80s.

@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer

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@@domi7007 unless you consider products made by Amstrad

Very beautiful deck. Great technology.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Thanks, Philip!

You've put so much fine work into restoring this great machine.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Thanks, much appreciated !

Жирный лайк, неужели остались такие любители как Я

Офигенный аппарат, Я такого не видел🤔

@SSSR69

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Но это "Вега"явно не Бердского завода. Тем более заявленных годов...

@ralphlauwaert2245

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@@SSSR69 This is WEGA, from Germany, nog VEGA from Russia. Different company!

@dormidordo8211

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@@SSSR69 спиздили только название!

@user-it2zi8wo1x

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@@SSSR69 аппарат от соньки

Beautiful deck, sounds great. wished the format stuck around a little longer. Noticed you had MPX filter turned on, this is used for FM radio recording, due to 19khz pilot tone (MultiPleXing) in FM broadcast causing Dolby to mistrack. For other sources, it should be left off for better audio recording.

Beautiful machine, from a Golden Age of quality Japanese Hi-Fi Gear! 👍

@thomasschafer7268

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Sorry. Wega is german. The tape was constructed with Sony.

@marcse7en

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@@thomasschafer7268 The brand may be German, but are you saying the machine itself is made in Germany? Why does my comment have 9 likes, if it's incorrect?

@ixis99

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He's correct...it's a German machine.

Bélissimo deck!!!!!!Som incrivel.

Una Joya de la Electrónica de los 80s Back to the 8😍s

Superb. Such a pity that the format never took off.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Indeed. It really works and sounds superb !

@phaenius

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 Quality-wise, yes, but the cassette was too big, tape too exposed, cassette and recorder too expensive, not portable and so on. Vast majority of people are not so aiming for quality, they were pleased with compact cassette, it was a convenient format.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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@@phaenius ​ There is a portable ELCASET recorder, the EL-D8. Yes, the format has some advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I quite like the big format of the cassette.. I collect different tape formats, and this is one of the better ones. I bought it very cheap, but needed to fully restore it. There's a thread on the website from tapeheads.net on the restoration of this specific deck.

@phaenius

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 I didn't know about a portable ELCASET deck, you learn something new every day. :) I know tapeheads, I have an account there. Even if I could find an ELCASET machine here, I wouldn't find cassettes. :) But yes, I agree it had potential. Especially the tape speed and tape width was a great point to start with. But with the development in both cassettes and decks for compact cassette over the years, those ended up to be quite competitive.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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@@phaenius next time you're on tapeheads, head to the restoration' section, you'll find a lot of background info on the deck in the video :) I don't know where you are located, but I found most of my Elcasettes on local 2nd hand websites here in Belgium and on Ebay Kleinanzeigen in Germany. (low priced) After a bulk-erase and degreasing (very much needed) , these are usually as good as new. You're right though, compact cassettes were much more common and everywhere, and with a goood tape on a good deck, sounds very very good also. If you ever need buying advise for an Elcaset deck, let me know.

Опоздала Сони с этим форматом, а сегодня это музей....

Superb noise cancellation and filter...❤️❤️❤️

Estás joyas son invaluables nos ilustran para que son los controles modernos de los últimos decks muchas gracias

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Thank you!

А я и не знал, пока не посмотрел это видео, о таком стандарте, как Elcaset. Надо же!

Got the fright of my life with the music eventually started

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Yes.... not much tape hiss with dolby activated 😀

What a beautiful machine

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Thanks man !

Esse deck de 1978 me lembra um deck da Gradiente ! O cd 2000 fabricado no Brasil em 1979

Fantastic cassate deck!!

Nice looking deck

...истинный винтаж, я такую соньку ЕЛ7 делал. Жаль теперь, купить невозможно : )

Never seen a cassette that size before

Ese 4950 combinado con el amp ta- 4650 , ta-5650..uffff !!.. . El SONYdo total .

I wish this format had lasted as it is so cool :D

У нас тоже была своя Вега. Но немного другая. :)))

@REDVECTOR31

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Вега-120

@Evgeny.I

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Целое семейство "Вег" родом из Бердска.

@timur787

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Очень даже не плохо звучали, мягкий четкий звук.

Caracas que belo equipamento

Those days are super

Никогда не слышал о таком формате аудиокассет.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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It was released briefly in the '70's as an audiophile cassette format to compete with standard cassettes. however, the format never took off, as most people had switched to norml cassettes.The tape is twice as wide, and runs at twice the speed of a normal cassette (similar to reel-to-reel). The cassette is also much larger than a normal cassette. It works very well, and it's a pitty it was never as popular as normal cassettes.

What a beast!

I had a Sony EL-7 and EL-5. But this black version look nice.

Une sacrée platine cassette ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Merci!

Потрясающе красивый аппарат!👍 Мечта коллекционера!)

@edprus549

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за 100 штук возьмёшь такую???

@user-iq4xs2xj4e

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@@edprus549 я коллекционер, а не сумасшедший!) Хотя в моей коллекции есть аппараты и по круче!)

@edprus549

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@@user-iq4xs2xj4e 100zxl ???

@user-iq4xs2xj4e

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@@edprus549 не понял.

@edprus549

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@@user-iq4xs2xj4e и не надо. я уже посмотрел что у вас там мелькает. Ничего толкового (инженерной мысли) 🚫НЕТУ

WOW! Works after 30 years

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Well over 40 years actually... and I had to completely restore it

@edtv21

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 You're right, over 40 years. I am electronic technician in this stuff, but I am working on UPS. So I keep love audio devices

Good

Antes no pensaban los ricos tanto en el dinero hacian cosas para que duraran y ganar prestigio ahora todo basura,y me encantaba ver las agujas moviendose,yo todavia los conservo y no hay nada como el sonido analogico de antes,sobre todo el placer de escuchar una casette o un vinilo.un saludo para los analogicos .

Nice very nice i need one

Fidelidad pura

hi have a full track 1/4 tape i put in a tape to get the play back right i had to do the same as you i do have 3 decks picked up as parts of ebay all working now it was luck to get them working bob

Cassettes are great. !!

Супер!!! Класс!!!

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Thanks Sergei!

Very nice

These devices should be reintroduced

Great device

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Thanks Paolo !

It's better than reel tape with the same speed, because Ferro Chrome and Dolby noise reduction

Cudo 👍

Works good 👍🌹

I'm lucky to own the blank elcasets, Panasonic and Sony I guess. Thanks

Why didn’t manufacturers put those same controls on All vHS VCR’s? Vcr’s did not come with VU meters audio controls, or headphone jacks. This is a great machine. I wish VCR’s were made like that.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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There are some older VHS Hifi models that has manual record level control and VU meters. The deck in this video has more in common with a normal cassette deck (albeit a different format and some other items).

This cassette format never took off

Too bad Sony made a marketing Fiasco in tje mid seventies Great machines and absolutely beautiful sound. After all same width of tape as R2R I have a couple in good working conditions and two needing repairs but 5 places denied because they don’t know how !!!

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Service is actually not that difficult. If you follow the service manual , it's all pretty straightforward. One tricky item is the calibration tape. There is a company in New Zealand selling one, and several others are selling just the tape, that you have to wind yourself in an empty ELCASET shell. Any decent technician with experience on cassette decks or RtR, could also work on this.

golden age

Still playing and will play a hundret years not like todays electronic crap,sorry if bad english

That deck is the same age as me ... wow!!

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Still going strong ! 😀

Sound is awesome, strange device, looks like cassette large than a standard size.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Yes, Elcasset format is much larger than compact cassette.

Wow...

Q. So …was this Sony taking a standard type Reel-to-Reel Tape and placing it in a shell of an enlarged and special cassette shell? So you got the frequency response and dynamics of Reel-to Reel with the convenience and handling of a cassette format? What was the tape speed of the Elcaset?

@ralphlauwaert2245

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3.75ips, double that of a compact cassette. The wider tape, in combination with the higher speed, results in quite amazing sound quality. Better than most reel-to-reel decks at that speed, and most certainly better than cassette decks of that era. However, cassette technology quickly advanced, and the Elcaset format was shortly lived. It's quite a shame really, that it never cought on. I have a Sony EL-D8 (the portable elcaset deck), and a Teac AL-700 (very very rare and very large elcaset deck) in my collection as well.

@SupermanQQQQQ

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 >>> OOoooooo 😯 That’s all very, very Cool 😎. All I can brag about, is possessing a needing-for-a-special-skilled-technical-specialist-to-fix, was TEAC’s top-of-the-line-ever-made Z-7000 Cassette Deck and a SONY Professional portable Cassette Deck, which has (I think) XLR connectors on the side …ooops… No sorry, mine doesn’t, but one version of that era did. I also have two SONY top-of-the-line ‘something-or-other’ ….2000 SVHS Recorders Decks (both need repair). Somewhere out there in stored-electronics-from-the-past-land is a special small flat shaped device which connects between the two decks and provides a Video Editing console with related features, between Decks 1 and 2, which would be nice to have. And these two decks might provide a practical way to transition some important VHS tapes to DVD/RW conversions, which have a wide-range of important purposes. In other words, I am hoping to do more that repair very great collectibles, (which is an awesome hobby) but additionally do some practical and beneficial UP-conversion to more modern formats, for worthwhile benefit (inclusive of cassette to CD or digital audio. Also would like to get an older copy of Windows 7 for changing out the operating system on a removable-SSD drive mini PC, so I have an OS capable of downloading photos from a Synology personal server, (which for some stupid reason is not supported by Windows 8 and beyond) and would get us back (temporarily at least) use of Windows Media Center, which was an important feature in Windows 7. Although I’ve heard there are more modern ways to do what WMC did.

This is a soft touch logic control play system which was not available in 1978. This system was introduced in 1986.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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No... soft touch logic control was available much earlier. Look up from which year this deck (= Sony EL-7) was produced. Soft touch controls were even available on TEAc RtR decks from the mid 70's....

@naveedshah8762

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 Thanks. I will check and update my information.

Salam dari Manado 👍

🔥🙏👍

Lindo!

Por favor aquí en Queens new York dónde lo encuentro para comprarlo me agrado este equipo. Gracias por mostrarnos

👌

1978 Dolby Atmos super system

Mui bueno

I record music on vhs- hi fi VCR’s. Superb sound quality. But my VCR’s don’t have audio input controls, VU meters or a headphone Jack. Why weren’t these controls put on VCR’s?

Hi-Fi has got worse rather than better, can't beat what they had back in the 70s and early 80s in fact the only thing decent to come out was the cd.

Ralph, what I meant was who makes it and what else did they make?

omg !

EHE 1978 RETRO DE CÂND AVEAM 12 ANI. MUZICA ROCK 'N ROLLS.M!☺️😊😊👏👏👍

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👍👍👍👍👍

Is it just me or does that cassette look rather massive? Or small hands? I got all my Now music & hard techno on cassette. I do love this retro cassette deck.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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This is not an ordinary cassette deck. It does not play standard compact cassettes. It's an Elcaset deck, and uses a much larger format of cassette. The tape inside is 1/4" (like reel to reel). If you google Elcaset, you'll find some images of these types of cassettes compared to normal cassettes. The Elcaset format was launched by Sony as a sort of audiophile format when compared to normal cassette. the tape runs at double the speed of a normal cassette, and the tape is twice as wide as well. It's a really cool format to play with. If you're interested in this format, make sure to aim for the Sony EL-7 deck. It's the top of the line model, and better constructed than the EL-5 or EL-4.

@equalevolution5563

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Problem is is the more retro something is the more you pay. I have never herd of it but will look into it.. I love retro stereos with the VU meters, especially old school geto blasters.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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@@equalevolution5563 Yeah thats true... I bought this one very cheap, but it was in terrible condition. It took me a long time to restore it, but now it's works like a charm. There's a restoration thread on tapeheads.net on this specific deck if you're interested.

@equalevolution5563

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Thanks! I have loads of old school technics, kenwood, pioneer stack systems, amps. As I’m a hoarder. I keep telling myself that I’m going to learn to restore everything. Then the government throws a new desires at ya & everything els isn’t important anymore.

👍

hi it's a EL7 SONY i have some grest decks tip o put a full track 1/4 tape in side one to get play back levels right

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Yes I did that. I also made a speed calibration tape for it on my Telefunken m15a.

SONY ELCASET… ソニーには優れた技術者が沢山いたのに…

I have a technics system ir has to be serviced and the cassette cover has to be replaced. Is it possible for you to do that??

@ralphlauwaert2245

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I don't do service on equipment from others anymore for now.... simply lacking the time and a lot of equipment on the waiting list for restoration already...

Почему элкасет =этот аппарат название бренда "Vega" , сделано же на заводе "Sony"... Или раньше до "Sony" pадиоаппаратура называлась "Vega"..."Wega"=это немецкий , германский бренд ...

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Wega is German, and they obtained the rights to release the Sony EL-7 ELCASET deck under their own brand name. This is a 'black' Sony EL-7.

@nassoroburhani845

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Yes! VEGA was a Russian brand

@ralphlauwaert2245

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@@nassoroburhani845 indeed ! Wega was a German brand, that made their own equipment, as well as rebatched equipment. The Wega 4950 was a black faced Sony EL-7. Sony actually made a Japan-only EL-7K (black), but that model is extremely rare.

@nassoroburhani845

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 Thanks for giving me more details about WEGA. I though the country of origin was Russia. Thanks Ralph!

Those were the days my friend … gottlob funktioniert die »alte« Technik auch heute noch, warum also sie nicht nutzen? 💁‍♂️

Нінчтяк

The Human Beinz were from Youngstown.

Thought you were going to fly an aeroplane.

Нихренаси какой агрегат, что от нас скрывали и чего нас лишили в СССР!!!!

Show

Un gran producto con un marketing pésimo!!!

It'a a SONY!

Как запуск аэробуса🛫😳🙄

💞💞जो भी प्यारी सी 👀आंखे ये कमेंट पढ़ रही हैं भगवान उनके माता पिता को लम्बी उम्र दे 🙏💞💞

Вега 1979г?! С 86 я помню историю веги

@ralphlauwaert2245

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This is WEGA, from Germany, not VEGA from Russia. Different company!

@user-wf2fg2js1e

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 спасибо) не приходилось работать с этой техникой,к сожалению..)

Looks like sony mechanism?

@ralphlauwaert2245

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It's a rebadged sony el-7

What's the cost of stereo casette recorder deck system

В продаже есть и почём подобные аппараты?

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Hi, you can look on ebay for Sony EL-7 or Sony EL-5 or Wega 4950. Prices have gone up, and most of these machines need maintenance now. For Sony EL-7, the top model, expect to pay around 1000€ in non-serviced condition.

K7'tão!

Label on tape says “type II FeCr”. That’s Odd, FeCr used to be type III…

@ralphlauwaert2245

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ELCASET used different type nominations compared to standard compact cassettes. Type I is your standard FeO2, type II is FeCr and type III is pure CrO2. Type III cassettes are extremely rare.

What's the cost of best quality stereo casette recorder deck system with Best stereo performance

@ralphlauwaert2245

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As high as you want it to be. A Nakamichi 1000ZXL limited sold for over 20K Euro's recently... the sky is the limit!

Здравствуй! МИР! Здравствуй!Друг! Здравствуй!Песен щедрый круг! Здравствуй!Миг! Здравствуй!Век! Здравствуй!Добрый! Человек!

Is this system for sale?? What is the price

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Not for sale.

Ferrichrome type 2???

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Yes

The same Deck is available with you and what is the price.

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Not for sale

अगर यह भारत में उपलब्ध है तो कहां से प्राप्त कर सकते हैं और क्या कीमत इसकी इसके

Apakah Masih ada ? Kalau ada brp harganya

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Not for sale

Iwantoneradio

The name Wega in the next decade was used on Sony flat screen TV s

@ralphlauwaert2245

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Wega is a German electronics brand, they rebadged sony's el7.indeed sony used wega as a marketing term also

@bytesandpisces

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@@ralphlauwaert2245 Hence the original equipment manufacturer OEM is SONY