Got this unit some months ago, as usual the belts have come loose (Not turned to goo. Thank god!), but I was quite intimidated by how packed in the insides look. Now that I have some free time, I decided to give it a try. Thankfully there was a lots of tutorial for in online, and it turned out to be quite easy after all. Mostly due to the top-notch engineering and build quality PCBs everywhere, but they're in sockets, so you can easily pull it off to do repairs (or just replace it, if you have any problems). I still have some problems to sort out, like the auto-reverse and VU meter, but for now I'm very satisfied with being able to enjoy music from this vintage German equipment. I don't think they're that rare, but I've never seen any other pop up for sale locally, and it's really a unique piece in my collection which is mostly stuff from Japan.
Very lovely indeed. Now I just need to find a 5 pin cube DIN connector to hook it up to my speakers. I can't find any for sale locally...
those units were standard-recorders in all official cars to record the two-way-radio-conversation (police, fire-dep., ambulances etc.). there was a more hifi- version CR-240. i still love the quality.
check out in the pic right the last real UHER: a lovely minitower http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/uher-cr240-cassette-deck.933/#post-7131
I definitely want one of those towers! Am I correct in assuming that that tuner and amps are much rarer that the decks themselves? They look especially dashing in black. Mine's got the silver galvanized (?) finish, so only the front cover is black.
if you weren't that far away you could have one of mine (as i have two), you would even have the choice between amps (pre-amp only or with power-amp)
I love those boards, I don't remember seeing other audio with removable boards like that except for a ton of 90's mixers I had to salvedge years ago. That's a heck of an offer autoreverser, I think I live a a kilometer or two closer, maybe beer, boomboxes and Octoberfest?
You known I'm always up for a parcel from you, about time I bought something new! They look super packed and nicely engineered, how are they to belt? This was the post I was thinking of with that lovely stack, very cool.
Wow! That's a very generous offer! But yeah... I've never actually tried to import stuff from overseas. I'm kinda on a tight budget, and would rather not pay for shipping fees that are comparably high to the price of the units themselves. On top of that, the customs here can be quite tricky. But thanks for the offer! Do you by any chance have a wiring diagram of the 5-pin cube DIN speaker output jack? I tried looking for it, but the many types of DIN connectors quickly makes it confusing. They seem to vary between units and manufacturers?
stuck-in-time, please give me some time, i should have all service-manuals for your unit ! tricky thing with those UHER's is, that they use loads of DIN-sockets and they use all kinda tricky connections - means you can't just use standard DIN-cables, you have to use certain ones for each purpose (...that's why some people think those things are broken - problem is that they were tested with wrong cables...). and yes, they are quite easy to rebelt. T-ster, there's one reserved for you ;-)
That's exactly my problem. I tried looking up Uher DIN speaker cables and all sorts of connectors turn up. And most seems to be discussing the micrphone plugs, while what I want is to connect the Uher to an external speaker. I'm assuming that's done with the leftmost plug? I'm also curious, what's the Access plug for?
No wonder those plugs went away, there should be plugs with generic pins on them to wire it up, you just need a "pin-out" diagram. I'd say access is for cassette player.
