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Show us your Micro Cassette players

Discussion in 'Chat Area' started by A O, Mar 6, 2018.

  1. autoreverser

    autoreverser Well-Known Member

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    looks almost like a MINOX-camera
     
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    autoreverser Well-Known Member

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    btw. where's the MINERVA, sir ?
     
  3. mrp32Dave

    mrp32Dave Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for all the welcome backs, and nice comments.
    The Olympus SW77 is a very nice machine and I'm very fortunate to have boxed example.
    For recording most units have a line in but not all, some only have mic in which will work for recording if you can adjust line out output level.
    Here's the machines I use to record with:

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    The Sanyo RD-XM1 is far superior to Sony TC-MR2, but the Sony still makes ok recording and is portable as it can run on batteries.
    A few of my Metal type IV Microcassettes, I do have more sealed examples, but can't remember where I put them.

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    ...and i thought I'm mad :worship:
     
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    Mystic Traveller Well-Known Member

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    Speechless! Awesome, Dave, just awesome! :thumbsup::thumbup::thumbsup::worship:
     
  6. Northerner

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    Wow that Sony deck is a beauty!

    Only micro I had was this Aiwa CS-M1 6C6F01C6-49EA-4C68-B0E7-ECA37846A23F.jpeg
     
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  7. T-ster

    T-ster Moderator Staff Member S2G Supporter

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    Jeez Dave im blown away by this collection of micro's, truly awesome. That Sony micro deck as well, so cute...
     
  8. Jorge

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    Yes, you guys Are mad! :worship:

    @mrp32Dave already killed me with his Discmans collection, glad that now he is going after everyone else here :applause
    micro-Metal-cassette, un-freaking-believable!! :worship::worship:
     
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  9. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

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    Yeah he had like 2 pallets of them until then they were very rare, I had one I bought many years ago and bought another from him, I wondered how long it would be now that he has none left before people started re-selling them at high prices.
     
  11. A O

    A O Active Member

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    Whay does the Aiwa badge always fall off those things?
     
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    Not a lot of evidence of glue being used, guess it’s a bit of double sided tape or something
     
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    ...and up: where's the Minerva ?
     
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    My first microcassette dictaphone, found on evilbay for 9,99€ :yesss: 5AE6AD35-EE8C-47E9-8F27-64B8C6213D99.jpeg
     
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  15. Mister X

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    I just posted this beauty down below in the hot deals section but since some people don't like to read both sections here's a photo of an Olympus for sale.

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    I have an Olympus SR-11. bought it new a looong time ago:
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    I recently bought a Philips D8000, it's in pretty nice shape:

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    These new Metal microcassettes I bought through our dutch buy-and-sell website (marktplaats).
    Metal ones are pretty rare! These are unused:
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    Just picked up this crusty clunky Toshiba Model RC-1, but I can't find any information or photos on this very rare unit. There's grooves in the side which makes me think it might be part of a boombox, if anyone has more information let me know.

    The cool thing is it also included a Toshiba Demonstration Microcassette Tape with "Stars on 45" and "Sexy Music" on it, how neat is that?

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    Looking at the lower photo, I can't get over how Polydor licensed use of their label for this shot... if they did. Makes me wonder: After release of this film, how soon people began calling for the release of prerecorded titles in this format, from them and other record companies?
     
  19. StaticAudio

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    Well first of all, the type of cassette in the film is not a microcassette, but a minicassette.
    And Philips, who owned part of the record label Polydor (Wikipedia has information about this), also is the inventor of the minicassette, and maybe Philips thought the appearance in this movie could be commercially interesting?
     
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  20. Mister X

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    Kubrick's Movies always had prominent product placement, as a young boy I always loved the photo of the Pan Am Space Shuttle in 2001 A Space Odyessey, it gave the scene so much realism, much more than any science fiction movie that came before it. These were the days when it had much less to do with paying for your product to be in a movie and more with saying "hey our product was in a movie." The type of cassette didn't matter 98% of the population didn't know the difference, visually they looked the same.
     

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