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one coment ....it will be fair to listen to a live original analog recording of a band and the same band from a cd nOT a recording from the CD... great comparison and info thanks.
I had an Apple IIc when I was a kid. Spent many hours on it playing video games. Thanks for sharing. 👍
I just got a 10 pack of RTM C60s with the newest tape stock. Very impressed with the performance and my faith in new tape has been renewed. I had pretty much lost any hope of finding good new 21st century tape. Up until now I've been scooping up NOS cassettes, but now I don't think I have too. These cassettes perform very similarly to the BASF Ferro Extra on my JVC decks (have 3 KD-V6s because they're just such a reliable, simple deck and they sound fantastic to my ears). Virtually no discernable loss in audio quality and while there's no gain in levels when recording to tape, there's 0dB in loss. The levels don't change or need much, if any, calibrating to match the source. For a Type I cassette, I'm impressed. If RTM makes a Type II cobalt comparable to the SA, I'd love to try them. Also tested on the Sony TC-K555s, Denon DR-F1, Onkyo TA-2570 & A&D (Akai) GX-9 and all tests were done using Dolby as well. C-type predominately for compatibility reasons. S-type is nice, but C-type decodes better on a B-only deck than S-type does.
I believe the RTM cassettes are the best new tapes on the market. I had tried both the type 1 and type 2 cassettes from ATR and wasn't impressed, but the RTM performs very well.
Next stop metal?
Any way I can buy a bootable drive for xtide with Tandy Dos on it? My Tandy 1000sx came with a dos disc but it’s corrupted. Xtide that I ordered with bootable drive doesn’t work.
I ordered my DOS disks on eBay. There's a gentleman who makes brand new copies of original disks. They worked flawlessly to install DOS on mine.
From my experience with these modern tape players (as someone that only very recently got into tapes), the SRC-75 isn't great, but it's hard to really argue with something that is usually sold for under $20 (this one was a limited-edition color, so that's probably why it was 5 dollars more than usual). Most tape players in that price range in this day and age are really poor mono units with their dictation abilities stripped out, so this is pretty decent compared to that lot of utter crap. Personally, if people are getting in to tapes as of today, the cheapest option that could probably do better than this would be the Tomashi F-113. Also not amazing (at least compared to a on-brand Walkman), but its overall sound quality puts the SRC-75 to shame if I'm honest. Really good with the bass in particular. On top of that, it's merely 10 dollars more than this. Not to mention it also has a rewind capability, and the ability to record (though, it isn't great).
Love these videos, keep em coming! I hit my local flea markets and peddler malls every weekend and see similar pricing on ANYTHING vintage electronic. And just like you I keep seeing the same overpriced junk sitting in the same booth. You would think the sellers would prefer to sell more at a lower price considering they are paying monthly for the booth. But every so often I do find a sweet deal.
Thanks for watching! I tend to wait them out... eventually they lower their prices or discount everything when their booth rent exceeds their profits.
You only tested one!
you ignored the interesting guitar pedal for a worthless pos radio lmao
NOW the Song.. Ohhh I went terr der flleee meeerrkat..
Your knowledge and expertise was instrumental in my finally being able to sell a cache of vintage electronics and stereo equipment that I had priced too high, and gave me insights into what was valuable and what was not in my cache. Thanks!
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.
Hi, thanks for the video. I'm trying to find the latest Sony Watchman that ever released. Couldn't find much info on it. Do you know which one was it? And also which ones are your favorite?
I believe the last one was probably the FDL-22. It was introduced in the late 1990s. My favorite ones are any of the early ones which used the tiny CRT fired into a mirror. I just find those fascinating.
Hi, I'm looking for the latest model they've released. Couldn't find much info. Do you know which one was it? And which ones are your favorite?
Thanks for stopping by VEC, there's more waiting for you! For anyone interested in checking out the computer horde near southwest IN, leave a comment and I'll send you more info.
I definitely need to come by again and see what other treasures you have.
I did have a friend that recorded music to VHS....I thought it was kind of strange at the time. Had never heard of anyone recording music to VHS at that point\ I thought he did it just to get 2 hours of non-stop music. You couldn't get that on compact cassette and CDs were limited to 1 hour 14 minutes...
kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXqLqs-kXZzOprg.htmlsi=2JzNebwQQU05oqrH Supposedly, this is a vhs recording. If it's not a mistake by the creator of the video and it really is vhs and not s-vhs, it looks great.
Wow, how cool. That sounded more organic and dynamic than my HI-FI vhs tape deck sounds. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to audio and believe me I noticed it. There is no doubt that the vhs recording sounds like it should sound, even though it is a very very clean fm signal and should not color the sound, but it does and it sounds better than the original source. By the way, keep that tape deck. They are the best
Don't suppose you've determined if the comb filter or Y/C separation circuit is any good on this device? I'm always on the lookout for something that tackles cross color and dot-crawl well when capturing Laserdisc. Also what file format does this capture video in? DV level .avi or MP4?
It captures in quite a few formats. Uncompressed and compressed. Next time I'm in there, I'll copy them down and post them here.
I was sort of late to the game as I got my first second hand VHS recorder in 1991. But I was also late to give it up as I used VHS up until 2021 - though not very often and it was a newer machine than the one I bought in 1991. To me SVHS was something I pretty much never noticed. In my circle of people the discussion was more if VHS-LP had a tolerable quality. There was one guy I knew who recorded everything in LP to save tape and it was a bummer when you wanted to borrow a movie from him and your own machine only had SP like mine.
this did the job. thanks very much! also, i was actually able to access the potentiometer without completely removing the casing. just peeked open the back and lifted off the shielding. my sound is good again👍
I'm a musician. In the 90's I used VHS to master from my Tascam 8 track recorder. My friends thought I was nuts. Then they heard my masters Ha!
I used to record the Music Choice channels from DirecTV and pick and choose the songs I wanted and transfer them to minidisc. The sound quality was great for what it was considering I was using the SLP mode.
I once worked at a place where we had prerecorded concerts for transmission. We would record the music using a PCM adapter in the video signal on the tape, and also on the Hi-FI tracks. The linear tracks would be for cue and time code. We'd play the tape out via a video/audio microwave link and a PCM adapter at the other side would feed the transmitter, with the Hi-FI tracks as the backup in case of PCM failure. It worked great, and was much easier to automate than an open reel tape since you could get VHS pro decks that had serial control.
Thank you for this! These BIC decks are so handsome! And the high-speed option, cool. But they are a real pain to work, on, they say, and my T-1 proved it true. Not only the ship-in-a-bottle belt change: I had to swap out the pinch roller as well. Getting the old one off without damage to its bracket was well, very difficult.
I fixed it following your video! Thank you very much!
Thanks for watching!
I almost got a similar Tandy at Goodwill for $40, but didn't buy when I saw the look on my wife's face when she saw the beige monstrosity I wanted to bring home. So I'm stuck with DosBox for the foreseeable future. I'm glad it survived the flood, but I'm sorry your insurance isn't covering anything. Funny similar story: my back door is currently boarded up because someone tried to break in while we were on vacation. They didn't steal anything (luckily, because there's about $4,000 worth of audio equipment right inside the back door). Anyway, insurance quoted us a deductible so high that we might as well do the repair without bringing them into it. Makes me wonder what we pay for each month.
$40? That was a great deal. Too bad you didn't get it, but I understand. My insurance company said they understand a lot of the flooding happened because the door ended up getting blown open. They said the door was covered, but not the flood damage. So with a $1250 deductible, I decided to fix the $300 door myself.
In the 90s a friend was recording the legendary "HR clubnight" which aired weekly on radio from Frankfurt/Germany on VHS tape. Even if VHS Tapes were much more expensive. The quality was one reason the other relevant archievement of VHS recordings was no "tape loss", because nobody lend his "master" tapes because of the weird format 😂
It is, with the exception of professional analog studio recorders running, say, 2-inch tape at 15 inches per second. The reason is simple. The tape is much wider, allowing for a better signal to be recorded onto the tape than that possible with narrower recording tape. A hi-fi VCR running at its fastest speed will record a better audio signal than a cassette deck costing two or three times as much money.
You should do a bias test on the tape, Then use dbx ON. Metal is by far the lowest noise >90db signal to noise and really records the true fidelity of all tapes. A true low noise source, at least that of a audiophile cd player or high bit rate digital or a pair of hi-quality mics thru a low noise amp is where this tapes really shine. Chrome, type 2, tapes come close, But fail on the high end and there is a faint noise. Type 1 just sux, hiss and pathetic response and lows & highs are chopped off, imo mush. I ran metal tapes on my car deck that has dbx and the sound was the best, better at the time than car cd players cause those skipped. I have my Yamaha KX-800 cassette deck right here, still works great and records great dbx to boot. Dragons were overpriced 30 years ago. Too bad ebay are asking $20 to $30 for one metal tape now. I am salvaging some chrome and metal tapes to build up a stock pile of goodness.
I've bought a lot of cassette players and recorders because I don't want to carry a Phone around with me. So I use a Bluetooth Cassette Recorder to Record Really Good Graphic Equalised Recordings. The Old Sony and Other Walkmans were Rubbish back in the 1980s. The New Ones Sound Really Good played through a Bluetooth Speaker. The Big Problem is they Put Loads of Oil and Grease in. The Chinese Walkmans. I think they Soak the Rubber Pinch Rollers in Oil as Well !!! But using Cotton Buds with Alchohol Cleaner to clean the Belts, and a Cotton Bud dipped in Water to remove all the Black Muck from the Pinch Roller, they Run Properly. The Speed Controls are Easy to Adjust. On the Walkmans there is a little hole on the Back of the Player. The bigger Radio Cassettes have a Hole in the Battery Compartment with some foam rubber in it. The adjustment goes on to the Motor, so that's Easy as Well !!! I bought dozens of Cassette Players years ago. I threw them away when they broke down because they were cheap to buy and they were hardly worth bothering to fix them !!! I wouldn't spend a hundred pounds on an Ancient Sony Walkman !!! Once you know how to adjust these Chinese Cassette Players, I think they are Really Good !!! And with a Good Quality Bass Enhanced Recording they sound good as Well !!! ( I have about 10 cassette Players.) 4 Bluetooth Walkmans, 3 Boom Boxes and 3 Radio Cassette Recorders. And a n MP3 converter Walkman. The MP3 Converter needs a Computer because you Can't Erase any Tracks by just using the Cassette Player. So I just use it as a normal Walkman !!! I use full Size DJ Monitoring Headphones or Bluetooth Speaker. Sometimes I connect a Bluetooth Speaker Using the Aux Connector. Some Walkmans have Bluetooth in, which is Useless. But most have Bluetooth Out so you can Link it with a Bluetooth Speaker !!! Then it Sounds Really Good !!!
My last defragmentation was one a 12TO full harddrive on a 7200rpm took like 4 day with the poor i5 4690K overheating
I remember doing that!
Two crucial points for me are these-- if you use an equalizer, you can boost the treble compass of the cassette when Dolby is IN. That really helps bring up the highs which have been attenuated by the NR system. Secondly, all normal bias tapes are JUNK, people. They were made for VOICE DICTATION. That is it. They were never meant to be a hi fi system. You have to at least step up to type 2 or better tapes to get the treble compass needed.
Do you have the meassurements of the belts needed for this deck?
Unfortunately, I do not. I just matched up from belts I had in stock.
Oh hell yeah that's sitting on dad's lap watching the pretty squares go by
Man, I am old lol
I used to sit there for about 30 minutes and just watch the blocks progress.
Oops, you moved the mouse, lets start again from the begining
yooo i have that same pc in my closet lol! sadly it dosnt work
Defargging during pride month is gone rustle jimmies
Mine did not take hours but still long enough to make me not want to do this.
If you remember this, check your prostate.
Ah yes. The old defrag.
I had a Hp XE783. Brings back so many memories 😅
Our first computer had only DOS and my first was an IBM powered by a pentium 66. Windows 3.11, 2MB RAM and a whopping 80MB HDD. If I had 10 of them I could have stored a CD on them. But no CD station, no soundcard. Nokia monitor displayed every one of the 8 colors. Our first internet connection was 28kbps
I still do it on Win 10/11 haha!!
Hours? If you did it often enough it took less than 2 minutes.
been doing this for years Sansui 9090 on tape deck setting , Marants 6300 turntable ,Sony SLVR 1000 VHS deck. recorded LP's straight on tape i call them " giant cassettes" sounds just like the record to me
I did it a Minute ago... Fortunately it was an Internal Drive, the Host Drive is already an SSD...
There was some yellow blocks too 😂