New belts is a Must!!! Check for hardened grease in its mechanism, usually a drop of fresh oil softens it.
@nickelindimer glad to find another Yamaha fan: it was my fav deck, the only reason I switched recently to Nak is the rock-bottom prices! Switch...
wonder if original belt had round cross-section? when restoring Teac A-100 I substituted counter belt for the square one, and it constantly...
I concur :) iPhone X? My best photos are made with Leica optics (Zeiss/Mamiya are out of my means) but my kids keep saying that number of pixels...
@Reli these are great news! Keep forgetting about our eBay brothers on the "wrong side of the Pond". For days now Im trying to figure where would...
some nice boxes are changing hands when you are not watching... I forgot that there is Telefunkem HiFi Studio 1M on my watch list; eBay informed...
how are these speakers wired? have to find SM for one of these boxes, the "ambience" factor should sound interesting! Remember that when shopping...
this reminds me that I should buy a Lottery ticket, to give Him a chance to prove that He/(she?) Loves me... I know that I do Love myself, and...
Well done! Looks good, its a shame nothing can be done about scratches, I like to think of those as "battle scars" :) ;) I also recognize...
as long as "everything" means slapping a few chips onto a board, and squeezing it between pieces of Gorilla Glass/brushed steel (Questyle DAP, for...
I hear you! A lot of better/newer pieces out there, so I am seriously thinking about keeping this one as a piece of 1974 history: it sounds soo...
[ATTACH] Superscope resurrected!!! Undergoing "field tests" playing Bee Gees while Guinness is being consumed... Guinness, because it seems to be...
Not going to happen, just check the offerings we got for cassette decks! Horrible cheap mech glazed over by the bull of hi-res upsampling and/or...
Cassette mech as a heat-sink, this is wild!!! I am not going to hold St.Nick onto the offer of "day ruined... for free!": just pulled myself out...
Done for now, everything up to specs (which are pretty low) but midrange is pretty sweet... As the first mod-step I will try "ambience" driver...
tape recorded on JVC: how does it sound on Sony vs JVC?
Amazing shot! Must-have for wikiboombox.com start page :)
[ATTACH] No wonder it sounds sweet but wimpy: all this volume for just a 3.5" driver... begging for an upgrade!!! :hmmmOr should I stay kosher...
$300 in 1992, Wow!!! that was the price for my then workhorse Yamaha cassette deck!
Well Done, Thanks for sharing!!! Being a Naim-Head myself (as seen in my avatar) I tend to stay away from the features I do not need, like...
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