Longstanding dislike for Sanyo. Please change my mind :)

Allow me to add. Here is the m1990 next to the mx520 and then just a bunch of minis



That's all I ever do is post pictures. Is anybody interested in these models? Contact me

 

Damn Man you have a Serious Collection.. Out of all of your radios, You already know that i like all the Quasar ones You Have the most, there is a lot of radios you have that i like. but the Quasar are my favourites.

 

M9998L

I'd love a nice example!

 

Hello Nick, do you remember this? Do you remember sending me two motors for a Sanyo M7900



This must have been at least 10 years ago and I'm just now getting around to remembering that as I am working on the Sanyo m7850k and then I had in a shopping bag and then I moved it into a container later on and then now present day or I've been trying to repair the 7850 and then remembered I have the 7900 and then I went to repair it and the motor was dead and then I remembered. Hey Nick, echols sent me two motors and so I found them and here they are so. I just want to say thanks very much for sending me those motors but sorry it took me so long to get to them to try to repair this 7900 that I'm working on now.

 

I must say: my Sanyo M-9994LU works very well and has a decent sound. Even the cassette part makes decent recordings with the choice of automatic and MANUAL(!) recording level settings. The two meters act like VU-meters for the cassette as soon as you record, and act as output power meters when playing back cassette or listening to the radio. Very clever indeed. And the well-made tuner even has switchable AFC and a signal strength meter. The 16cm woofer/midrange speakers can give quite some bass, while the tiltable tweeters do the rest...

 

I have a small collection of cassette players and of all the boomboxes I have, the Sanyo M-X820 sounds the best. And I compared it with AKAI AJ-490, Beston 4000, Crown CSC-950, Hitachi HK 7000, National Panasonic RX-7000, Philips D8714, Silver ST-777, Sharp WQ-T237, Sharp GF-9292, JVC RC- 828, Sanyo M 9935 that I own. Besides the pleasant sound, it is also the most beautiful. One of my passions, hobbies is their repairs. Sanyo M-X820 has the thickest, most resistant plastics and is generally a particularly high-quality product.

 

And this is where living in different parts of the world comes into play. As a lot of these models are not common in other countries as they are common in yours and therefore not more readily available to Us in other countries as they are to you as you are local to them. Today I won another Sanyo u4gp model AKA M7790 which has a feature difference that you can only get in Japan but I bought it and it'll be shipped and then repaired to where. I live in Dallas, Texas so that's the only way to get these is to find them for sale in another country and then have them shipped halfway around the world so us can enjoy them. I'm familiar with your 820 model of Sanyo as I've had other similar models like the General Electric Blockbuster for instance, which I believe is the 3-5259 model and then the Sanyo m9994 is another similar sounding model to the a20 that you have. I could go on, but I don't want it bore you to death. Me for. My age. And simply the ability to listen to cassettes without needing to resort to headphones, but also having the ability to bring my music with me and listen to it at a comfortable level, not blasting this U4GP is just right for me.

 

My only boom box, a Sanyo M9998. Don't worry, it's all reassembled and everything works except the AM band. As the original owner I have everything except the packaging. It serves as my home stereo through external speakers and plays mp3's via an FM transmitter on a cell phone.

 

These are great sounding boxes. But you would probably get better sound by replacing that FM transmitter with a bluetooth receiver plugged into the Line Input jacks. Like this one. Ridiculously cheap price, but works fine.
Wireless Bluetooth 3.5mm AUX Audio Stereo Music Car Receiver~hot Adapter Q9E7 | eBay

 

The problem with that is the input jacks for the two mics are separate and mono, and one of the mics has a switch to pause recording. So one of the mic inputs has two jacks. Some custom cabling would be needed to use the Bluetooth gizmo.

I believe to inputs on the back are RCA jacks, so a custom cable would have to be made to use the gizmo.

 

See that silver 3.5mm plug attached to it? It's not needed. It simply pulls off. You can replace it with a 3.5mm splitter cable for your Line Input jacks.

 

Thanks for pointing that out. The question remains if the remote control jack is wired to be default pause or not.

What is the fidelity loss using FM as opposed to Bluetooth?

 

From what I've read and what I understand about the bandwidth of FM as FM is 50 HZ to 15,000 HZ with a carrier wave of 19 khz. As far as Bluetooth, it's less. I don't know the exact bandwidth that it runs on, but I do know that you don't get much bass with Bluetooth.
As far as inputting another source to play through your radio, I'd rather do a straight wire stereo patch cords, whatever from your source through your radio rather than going through the radio airwaves. That's just not good. It's convenient. Yes, but it doesn't sound very good in my opinion. The wired source material is much better. Just more cumbersome because you have wires to work with but it sounds better. That's my opinion.

 

What you need is dual mono microphones. One has to have a switch on it like these do. Yes, they're not a matched pair but they do plug in exactly into those plugs as you described. Here's a picture

The start stop switched. Remote plug is a 2.5 mm. Jack, just so you know and to the best of my knowledge, all it does is turn on and off the motor to the cassette deck not pause. You're welcome.

 

Every single FM transmitter I've tried, even high-powered, higher-end ones, sounded subpar. Just an overall lack of precision, and distortion in the bass. I don't have the specs, all I know is Bluetooth is better IMO.

 

Well I just don't use anything unless it's wired to import my sound to any other device. I don't use radio waves at all. I only show that it can be done by using a Bluetooth device. I don't have any FM devices other than the radios that come with the unit. I'm old school. I use wires. That's it.

 

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

 

Directly from buyee.jp to me to this video today and it works nearly perfectly, right out of the shipping container!
Sanyo MR-G380 radio cassette player, used

https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/j1152616023
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Sanyo MR-G380 unbox Play cassette 18 Oct 2024 (16:22) minutes