Reel to Reel deck

Jan Cumps

2 Dec 2015

I've purchased a 1977 vintage tape deck yesterday. It was a bit of a wild purchase, because I couldn't test it.

It turns out that it's performing well. It's not a top model. 30Hz - 20kHz on low speed, 28 kHz on high speed.

Documentation is available from hifiengine.

Here's my first checkout:

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shabaz over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +3

Something very cool about seeing spinning tape! Nice vintage kit!! And there was me about to show a photo of my "vintage" minidisc player..
Jan Cumps over 10 years ago in reply to DAB +3

I don't have a particular plan or use. It's just for fun. It's my 7th tape deck. The previous ones I've sold. That's the faith of most audio gear @ Cumps Castle: I buy, enjoy it for a while (and open it…
Problemchild over 10 years ago +2

Keep that Vintage term to yourself '77 is childhood not "Vintage".....EBAYers use that term grrr
jw0752 over 10 years ago +1

I have several hundred hours of 1950s and 1960s era music on reel to reel tape. When I was a kid I couldn't afford to buy the 45 RPM pop records and albumns so I would borrow them from the rich kids and…
DAB over 10 years ago +1

Nice find. Do you have a source of taped music or are you planning to transfer music from CD's or LP's? DAB
mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +1

a guarantee that I won't get complaints from the partner No sense of adventure ... It could be worse, you could be out all day on a sunday playing tour guide to some lost NZ'er and buying beers every…
Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1 +1

Yep agreed, a bout of total fail this time !!
Jan Cumps over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild +1

I'll use the term whenever I want. I'm an eBayer so that makes me fully qualified
Jan Cumps over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1 +1

... and we'll have to rename the group here on element14 from "Vintage Tech" to "<something else that we all align on> Tech" .

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DAB over 10 years ago

Nice find.

Do you have a source of taped music or are you planning to transfer music from CD's or LP's?

DAB
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Jan Cumps over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

I don't have a particular plan or use. It's just for fun.
It's my 7th tape deck. The previous ones I've sold. That's the faith of most audio gear @ Cumps Castle: I buy, enjoy it for a while (and open it up and see how it works), bring it back to spec, and put it for sale while using it.
My hobby pays for itself perpetually - a guarantee that I won't get complaints from the partner about my purchases.
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mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

a guarantee that I won't get complaints from the partner

No sense of adventure ...
It could be worse, you could be out all day on a sunday playing tour guide to some lost NZ'er and buying beers every so often ....

I don't think I should take up that hobby, I'd tend to keep them ...
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

??? "Keep them" tape decks or NZers???
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

??? "Keep them" tape decks or NZers???
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mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

no the tape decks
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

I thought Kiwis could be the new Pocamon ?:)!
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mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

I thought the English could play Rugby ...

After all they invented the game ...
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

Yep agreed, a bout of total fail this time !!
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