I honestly think it would not work, wow & flutter would be incredibly high: the feedback from the head to the reel would cause a corrective action...
250 um is very thin, just twice the thickness of a beverage can; I think aluminium is definitely too soft at that thickness. My question is : why...
I checked the DD11 service manual and like the DD33 there is no adjustment of playback levels, they are "correct" by design. If you already played...
Just out of curiosity, what is the ETA for the repairs ? I asked for a repair on january of this year and ETA was roughly 2 years. Regarding the...
I'm surprised it sounds that bad ! It's a cheaper DD with more plastic, but it was still a mid range model. I have a WM-22 which was the low range...
[UPDATE] FIXED I was finally able to fix the FFW/REW clutch ! I had to remove the capstan flywheel and take the clutch apart. The two gears with...
Hugo, your Revox B215 should be good enough to record a very close approximation of a test tape :) Alex (ANT audio) uses a Revox for its test...
Thanks for the suggestion; I have first to understand what is rotating and what is static. It appeared the C-Clip is static while the gears +...
Those numbers are too good indeed ! the specification for the DD30 is 0.13 DIN, 0.08% WMRS(NAB) . the specification for the FX43 (a belt driver...
[UPDATE] in the weekend I had a better look at the clutch mechanism and my above picture is wrong. This is how it is intended to be set-up...
The dual gear pictured above is used only for FFW/REW, the playback has its own proper clutch (with the standard felt disk). It is the first time...
Hi, I agree that spectrogram are more intuitive than a number, my only concern is that by using high frequency tones you are mixing other...
Hi, Not sure what your scope exactly is, but if you want to measure the transport stability in terms of W&F, the procedure is a bit different:...
Well all the DD serie does not have soft operation.. I have nothing against mechanical walkman, some of them are really sturdy and the transport...
Hi all, I just got a NOS WM-22 and it has the problem of the FFW and REW gears not engaging properly. Through Google I found an old thread here...
Thanks but i do not have anything to exchange, i do have a few walkman's and they are not very valuable ( i sort of like the underdog models)....
When I was a kid in 1983 I was gifted this very walkman, a Sony WM-3 deluxe. [ATTACH] I kept it very carefully until late 80's when it was...
I have been using it for some time and I would say treble response might be better: listening to a type II with dolby B results in a loss of high...
After the big disappointment of the latest cheap AIWA I bought, I still wanted to try one of those black plastic walkman's that most of my...
I was looking for cheap yet branded basic walkman to try; from ebay I got this new old stock AIWA TA213 for 8 EUR: [ATTACH] It is indeed new and...
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