Hi

I have just bought a Philips D8444 looks in nice condition apart from it has a replacement antenna attached to the back and the cassete deck wont eject open.

Can someone with a working one of these tell me or even better photograph were the release lever is inside the tape door for me to open.

Any opinions on how loud these units go, I have mine plugged into the mains all speakers are worknig but volume always seems very low you need it at 75% volume to get a nice relaxed volume in a small room still being able to talk with ease, were these ever loud or is mine faulty somehow.

Thank you for any help.

Jason

Welcome to the board.
With a bit patience you might get an answer soon.

I just can give you a few details on this one.

1984
1985

phil-mag-d8343 d8344 IBBN 7-05078 , Compo Sound Machine, FM stereo, MW, SW1 (2.3 - 7.3 MHz/130-41 m) and SW2 (9.3 - 21.75 MHz/31-13 m). Telescopic and Ferroceptor aerials. LED tuning pointer. Metal (playback), CrO2 and normal cassettes. Feather-touch keyboard. Servo-controlled tape transport. Direct play from wind/rewind mode. Full autostop. Pause. Long-life heads. Built-in stereo microphones. 16 W max. output. Detachable loudspeaker enclosures, each with 13 cm wide-range woofer and piezo tweeter. Spatial Stereo. Sliding tone control. Connections for line in/out, stereo headphones and loudspeakers. W x H x D: 59 x 22 x 16 cm. Weight 7 kgs. Power supply: 120/220/240 v, 50/60 cs or 12 v car battery or 8 x 1.5 v batteries us$ 111,36

the fm on these is probably the loudest feature, the tape sound is pretty weak. the line in only works with the play button down. incidentally line out works as a line in...

if you get a headphone amp and raise the level of the signal going in through the line in, decent levels can be reached. all in all a peculiar box. good looking but quiet.

Thankyou for response.

I found a wide thin piece o plastic and gently opened the cassette door found the release mechanism lever didnt move.

Opened her up and managed to fix the eject function.

volume now seems fine when used with line in function and a headphone amped mp3 player, I only use it in my computer room so fills the room nicely, just bass distorts if you turn it up too mutch.

Anyway to piggy back another amp for the bass speaker as I'm sure the speaker could kick out serious noise if it had enough power.

Had a car with 6by9's and when hooked up to a seperate amp kicked out plenty of bass but without they were a bit weedy.

the middle woofer on that model is kinda weak with a very small magnet ,if you put a decent woofer in it she would probobly have alot more bass.i like that box tho i had a few of them ,