Hello to all, as you can see i am new to the wonderfull world of the microcassette. I would love any advice on starting out a collection of both portable and home descks as well as the all ellusive Metal cassettes.

Many thanks in advance Glen

Hey Glen, (from gloucester ?, just a hunch)

Not really sure about the micros, I see them on ebay from time to time, there are some mini boomboxes with micro decks in but only a few.

Other members can probably give you a better idea of the model names though ebay would be a good place to start.

Well, when there is a microcassettedeck on ebay it will me mine as I did see it first

No, they are rather rare!!

and really nice

Not in Gloucester, but used to be at RAF Innsworth!

Well, when there is a microcassettedeck on ebay it will me mine as I did see it first

No, they are rather rare!!

and really nice

I would love the JVC DM3, a friends father had one when i was a lad, thought it was awesome then and still do

The jvc or the sanyo/fisher will do

I have a few microcassette walkmans, 2 stereo micocassette boomboxes and 3 mono microcassette boomboxes and some walkmans, like the olympus sr11 the sony m1pd and the m80 and m50 and a olympus 801 dictationmachine, also I have a grundig stenorette

have decided on the Olympus SR11 and the Sony M1PD as my starting blocks, but as for the metal tapes, are there any left in existance for sale???

Well i knew finding a stereo microcassette recorder was going to be hard but this hard? Really?! AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Jup, super hard!

patience will be good!!

the olympus will be on ebay every 2 years or so!, the sony m1pd every 3 years!!

historically the smallest made at one point of time were Sony m909 and sony m950...some completed listings to give you an idea for your maximum bid

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-M909-...;hash=item2c5c2be9bb

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-M-950...;hash=item43a624cecf

Is that a steroe one? 

They are great collectibles....but mono

The M80 is a stereo + radio...variant

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42434267@N02/4933826367/

Have one of those

Thankyou for your words of support and the links guys. looks like patients is the only way forward, not one of my strong points tho

Hey guys, just found this on ebay.com (item no. 260953404109) JVC D-M3, Pennsylvania, USA, 120v, US$49.99!!!!!!!!!!!

I have two mint (and I mean mint) condition sets of the Panasonic RN-36 spy microcassette recorders - complete with the powered speaker, earphones, microphone, carrying case, power supply, and manual - look it up and let me know if you're interested in one of them.

hi mate, nice bit of kit but am only looking for stereo microcassette recorders and players aswell as the all ellusive metal tapes. i actually made my own metal tape a couple of nights ago, i canablized a TDK MA-X!

Ahh, gotcha. No worries!

The stereo decks, portable players and metal tapes are uber rare

There is a JVC D-M3 on ebay now.

Had a JVC DM3 for years works fine & considering the format sounds good,have a lot of metal based tapes recorded,sound much better than regular micro tapes,also have couple of Olympus 77 hand held,a JVC hand held & packed away a  Grundig hanedheld with FM & AM tuner,there were a lot of models sold here in UK in the seventies,I bought my JVC deck in Selfridges if I rememer right,HyperFi in Barking sold a lot of models including Sony,I remember seeing an attache case unit with turntable regular cassette & micro at Gatwick duty free once