You need a 3 head deck to show the real sound on any tape, a well calibrated metal tape sounds very close to a digital source.

The video is AI generated. Never mind the nostalgia or resurgence bullshit. It's portable analog hifi. Get yourself a good 80s Japanese deck that's still running. Give it a good cleaning, buy some RTM C60 cassettes and listen to the magic. Now swap out the belt on a 90s Sony Walkman and take the show on the road. The end result should be an audio experience that rivals digital in terms of overall sound quality, but has that natural analog warmth & brilliance many of us crave. No other format can provide this experience while riding the train to work or seven miles above the earth. :)

I tried the first couple of JVC S-VHS machines released at the time and found them to be unimpressive with very poor frame manipulation, I sent them back. I left it a couple of years and then purchased Panasonic (starting with FS100) and never looked back. As with most machines, the tape you put in the machine had a major effect on the picture quality and the best tape I found that worked with the Panasonic's were TDK XP-PRO. There always seemed to be more dot -crawl and less colour with JVC tapes.

I remember seeing these cassette players in our local Radio Shack-like shop during the Soviet era. Despite their bright colours, they always seemed somewhat unattractive to me. The model 401 was particularly disappointing, as it was rated as 4th grade, indicating poor playback and amplified sound quality.

3d printing could help fix that lil' spud!

People of Soviets in 80s had enough money but can't spend it. They were buying everything on shelves because there are no more options. Gorbachev tried to fix it by liberal reforms, but made it worse. But this was almost fine compare to Russian 90s…

More like Walkcomrade amirite

It looks beautiful but I thought it was more or less from 83, when you said 90, 91 my jaw dropped, such a simple thing like this says a lot about how people were living back in the USSR at the time

Does it have the price in roubles stamped on the back of the boombox?

Yeah! You could use one of those Bluetooth cassette tapes to get some sound out of it.

I don't need this thing. But I need this thing.

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Back about 1986 or so, I saw something similar to this in a discount store and I believe it was made by a company called Grand Prix 10:29 10:57

Love how the ACA logo is clearly RCA logo copy.

Love that bright red / orange ❤

Recently, I repaired Telefunken CC20 cassette tape deck, HIGH COM and Dolby, BUT gears tears apart like in this one. I ordered 3D printed gear, assembled deck and it runs perfectly. Very nice reproduction, HIGH COM doing job very well. I've done screenshots of NR effect and recording of several frequencies. THERE are harmonics, too, as on my Pioneer deck! Interested?

I have a (far better constructed) JVC system that had detachable speakers and a detachable cassette player. Far more full-featured than this, but may have been a loose inspiration.

That's very cool The Soviet Walkman

I grew up with PAL VHS and DVD. One thing I noticed when playing NTSC tapes, was that the blacks are lighter compared to PAL tapes where black is black. The NTSC VHS tapes had very muted colours and also have this effect where the redish colours leave motion smearing. The PAL tapes don't handle reds that well either with colour bleed everywhere, but they don' t have the motion smearing

We had a Ford tape and listened to it SO many times as kids because we had almost no access to any music.

I am trying to play VHS on digital flat screen TV. I can get tapes to play that are recorded on SP but a lot of my "home taped" tapes are in SLP. SLP tapes "skip" and sound quality chirps. any cure? I am watching various videos regarding hooking the VCR up to the flat screen trying to determine if it is connection issue.

In 1991 at the age of 11 I fantasised about a time in the near future when ALL my Queen albums on tape would fit onto a small microchip so I don’t have to pack them all each time I go on holiday… ‚ah THAT wud be quite something - so convenient! But how could that ever be possible!‘ is what I thought… And: I did love owning those cassettes!

Ugh! It doesn't matter if you have no hissing, no noise. The flutter is just killing me. It's just horrible. It's beyond, horrible. It's intolerable. I'm sorry. I'm spoiled. Flutter of only .7% is barely tolerable. Coming off of a $3700 in, 1979, dollars. Scully Studio Recorder. And so why would I want to hear, 10% flutter with no noise coming off of the cassette with far reduced sonic resolution? Why? Is there a reason for this? In the 21st Century? Is there something about your age that doesn't match mine? You don't know what year it is? Do you know who the president is? When's your birthday? No do not answer that on the Internet. I'm just asking. You could have a screw loose? Anything is possible at our age. I mean when you realize. Digital exhibits, 0% Flutter. What else is there to know? That your easy listening frequency response cuts off at, 20, 050 hurts? Is it really that painful? That it doesn't go out to, 40 or 80 kHz audio resolution? Your hearing is that refined? Wow? So you would need, a lot faster tape. But cassettes only move it 1.78 in./s. That's really low resolution. I mean you're trying to align a bunch of itty-bitty little, oxide particles in, wacky ways. That's blasphemy! To the audio. What did the audio ever do to you? That you would want to subject your audio to any kind of Dolby or DBX? I sure never did. There was no reason to. If somebody doesn't like the hissing? They should just purchase a cheaper stereo. RemyRAD

No. There are 3 groups of people. Those who love it. Those who hate it. And those like myself. Who just don't use it. Don't believe in it. Don't need it. To get rid of, hissy sounding tape. I've never needed that stupid stuff.. No. No not even with, 9 analog generation down, copies. I have no noise and hissing issues. And never having used, any Dolby or DBX, gobbledygook. Screwing up the sound. Making it sound all wonky. Because it does. But some would rather have wonky than hissing. I don't like either. So I got rid of it. How you ask? There's another faction out there like myself. We use, Broadband, Downward Expanders. That don't wonk. With the audio. And I've been using those since, 1973. So I don't know where you've been? Playing around with stupid wonky sounding Dolby DBX gobbledygook. When downward expanders work so much better. And what do, 9 generation down analog copies sound like without Dolby or DBX? You can be the judge. From this demo I threw together back in, 1979. All produced on analog. All approximately 6-9 analog generations down. With no tape noise reduction system in use. soundcloud.com/remyrad/remygolnickjinglesotdemomb2 This demo from 1979 is an average between 6 and 9 analog generation copies down. From the 30 IPS, Master Recording. To the 15 IPS, Master Mixes. To the 7.5 IPS, sales demonstration copies. To the 7.5 IPS consumer copy of the, 7.5 IPS sales copy. And no tape noise reduction used. Because I don't roll that way. So amateurs are plagued by hissing tape. Like a pit full of angry snakes. But real Audio Engineers like me know what to do. Because we design and build the stuff also. From that geared to the full-blown big studios. And so we are not home consumers worrying about, hissing consumer tapes. I mean how funny. Dolby A, Dolby B. Dolby C. Dolby SR. Dolby S. DBX -type I. DBX type-II. And now something wordlessly better! Something already archaic and better! Plus, you see. There's this thing called, Masking. And tape noise at 30 IPS. While it's hissing. It's not really, hissing. It's more like a spring shower. It's pink noise. It's a subdued, hissing. That gets Masked. By the level of the music. And the Tracking, Downward Expander. Takes care of the rest. Inaudibly.. Perfectly. Perfectly. Without a bunch of wonky sounding audio artifacting and aberrations. It's only the, 7.5 IPS copies of the copies, from other copies. I have posted here. From the transfer I made. Back in 1996. With a 1st Generation, Pro Audio, PCI based, installed soundcard. That wasn't 16-bit like everybody else's. It was 18 bit! And can also record at, 48 kHz. For, Video, soundtracks. WOW. Laughable by today's standards. On every, $150, bargain tablet. And even much less. On sale. Outperforms what I had back in 1996. When I made this transfer. From Sticky Tape Syndrome, old tape copies I had. Of whatever I had left after the fire. At the temperature controlled, humidity controlled, actual tape library. Where my masters had been stored. Until the fire. Took out the entire building. And all of my original Masters, gone. All I had left. Was a bunch of scrap tape copies. In a box. Of unlabeled tapes. And I found an old demo. And it still sounded reasonably good. Even though the tape is all sticky. And before we knew to bake them. To recover them. I came up with a different procedure I created. It worked. It was tedious at best. It was messy. It was problematic. It worked. And so when it comes to tape noise reduction schemes and themes. Most are made for amateurs. Even at the professional level. That don't know how to do it right. But don't have a full background of knowledge. Though many have college degrees. Which means, nada. I am not in possession of the stupid college degree. I teach the college professors. So I don't need one. Strange but true. I know. But there are those of us. And I am now Fully Retired. Having fun on RU-vid. Watching stupid videos. Laughing my ass off. At all the amateurs. With all the information. Of which one is better! Answer? None! None is better! Don't use those hideous things! Just get yourself a, 53-year-old pair of, Allison Research, KEPEX-500, Key able Expander, a.k.a. KEPEX-1 or KEPEX-II. Tie the key inputs together for stereo tracking if you like. I didn't bother. Set them close. Set them real close. Set them, extremely, close. And you will be Awakened! Really these things don't screw up the sound. They add a very little, nearly inaudible, mush factor. That doesn't take away from the, Golden Quality of the sound. It remains intact. You can hear it. It's deep. You can listen deep into the mix. With no wonky. You can hear it as I intended for you, to hear it. Without a third-party factor making it sound, wonky. The purity is retained. Because it's a Broadband Device like a Limiter. Only the inverse. Under threshold control you set. With a release time, you set. With a depth, you set. To track the sound source. To make its effect inaudible. And you can hear it. You can hear it. On a couple of the count ins. Where's all the hissing? It's clean. It's real clean. I keep it, clean.. Just like my ass. So you know I'm a good date also. I want my music production to reflect my lifestyle. Bigger than Life. I mean this is Miami's hottest rock studio musicians. You've heard them on countless hits. And the Miami Symphony Orchestra. Inside an, announce booth. Designed to accommodate 4 announcers. I had approximately 13 people, in the room it wants. Along with the grand piano we got. And 24 chairs set up. All very tightly next to each other. It was a tight squeeze. To get 13 people in that room. At a time. Until I had re-created the entire Miami Symphony Orchestra. In overdubs. I had a lot of fun producing this. I had never done anything like this before. This is my first try. At 23 years of age in 1979. I mean never mind. I had to work out completely new recording techniques to do this. I had to modify equipment. To do this. I only had 8 microphones. To do this. And only 4 headphones. To do this. So it is not possible. To do this. But I gave myself no choice. I told the boss. I could do this. I must've been stoned? I had to be stoned. In order. To do this. And I was not compensated for my marijuana. I mean I walked into Leon GOLNICK's office. And plopped myself down. And said, look Leon. I blew through over, 1/4 ounce of marijuana. Doing these mixes for you. After hours. And I expect you to compensate for me the additional costs of this marijuana. He said no. He said he pays me well enough. Oh well? I tried. As he wanted me badly. I declined his offer for a year. And then figured? What the hell. It's 3 blocks from Fort Lauderdale Beach. I can go to the beach for lunch. I can walk to Fort Lauderdale Beach, for lunch. That's where the offices were. That's where the studio was. They built for me. They built the studio for me. But they did not equip it. With what I required. They gave me some junk equipment. And he told me you're supposed to be good. Use it. So I did. I don't let anything stop me. And I know what everything has to sound like in the end.. It can't sound like, amateur hour. The directive was to make it sound, New York City. Okey-dokey. As that's where they had been getting their jingles for years. And paying top dollar. I said I could do it for 1/10 th, the amount. In our voiceover studio. I was stoned. I meet you cannot undertake a project like this. Without smoking pot. It takes you to that next level. The focus is incredible. The creative juices explode. And you just make it happen.. I test all the audio out in my head first. If I can hear it in my head. I know it will work in real life. It's hard to explain. It's complicated. But I have to hear it first. In my head. As I see sound. I see it bouncing all over the place. But I don't see any colors like other people say they do. I don't know what they are saying? I just see sound. Like it bouncing off your wall. Of that picture. Off your desk. From your lamp. You can't see that? Hmmm? You might want to see an, OptoAudibleOphthalmologist? Which is a degree you can get from Yale. Where, JD Vance got his. After his traumatic brain injury he got in the USMC. And that is the result. Mini Fascist Donnie. In all its glory. What he really needs is a karma Full On, John Wayne Bobbitt. What a pompous prick. He should not possess. A full on John Wayne Bobbitt is waiting for him. In the great political ether of his nonexistence. What prick, be him? The maniacal thug attitude is truly amazing. They will Rule by roughshod! Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Yes what a patriot. He wants to be Vice President Prick. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Mr. Prick. RemyRAD PS his confident attitude indicates. He owns more than one, AR-15. He still has one of his, M-16's. Ready to kill Americans with. Ha ha ha. Ha ha.

I never thought VHS quality was an issue

Is there anything worst than The Shaggs? Yes there is!! For video information go to ru-vid.com?search_query=Top+Ten+Worst+Auditions+on+American+Idol

The Shaggs second album has more of a pop feel than the first. For more information go to ru-vid.com?search_query=The+Shaggs+Shaggs+Own+Thing+Full+Album and for the video on The Shaggs last live performance go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uecAAN6E6yY.html

Singer-songwriter Frank Zappa have said that The Shaggs are better than The Beatles. My take is The Beatles, even during The Pete Best Era (1960-1962) is better than The Shaggs. For more information go to ru-vid.com?search_query=The+Beatles+Pete+Best+BBC+Live+1962

This is by any means the most proficient video I have seen in a while. I've followed your clues and fully repaired a walkman I loved that now has returned just like it's first days of life. Thanks!

The Shaggs second album "Shaggs' Own Thing" is more pop than their first. Let's compare the Shaggs two album with Sonic Youth's first two albums.

Klaatu! Amazing music choice

I heard this is an awesome tt. You're doing great. With my headphones, it sounded swell

I recognise that Pavilion. I owned one of those back when they were new! I remember well than box of utter crapitude, and returning games back to the store because they wouldn't run with the pathetic Intel i810 shitset that sorry excuse for a computer used for graphics. And the time I tried to put a cup of tea on top only for it to fall off the pointlessly curved styling of the case. Yeah, that thing sucked. But it's what the family had back then. The volume knob on the keyboard was cool. Those were a novelty back then. Most of the other buttons stopped working after the first reformat and OS reinstall.

So glad u did this. I've got the same model & I love it😊❤

It’s called “platter”, not “turntable.

I have a U-Turn Custom. 2m blue stylus with acrylic platter. I've been listening to record albums since the 70. There are still good turntables out there today. Oh, & screw the haters!

Give up your turn tables! Man if I had a nickel for every record I bought that was warped, had pops built-in... There's no question in my mind that the music here in the digital era is FAR superior. But keep drinking the kool aid and buying those records! I will admit the album art is the only thing that suffers these days.

Wow! I love this!!!

Thanks for reminding me that I have dozens of 2120 taped that I never got around to transferring ...

Before USB, the universal serial bus, the parallel port was the closest thing we had to a universal connection method. I had a handful of peripherals with parallel port connectors, for when all else failed. My personal favorite was the LapLink cable. Before Ethernet was ubiquitous, having a LapLink cable allowed one to connect two Windows computers using DCC (or Linux using PLIP), transfer files or anything else that could be done on a network. I used it a lot when I worked in a Token Ring shop.

The South African model was also sold as "National Panasonic" and was FM due to the fact that the country's regional Top-40-style stations were on FM.

Common knowledge

Question, why do you keep pressing monitor? Kind of distracting.

I bought one and loved it. About 2 years later I upgraded to a Commodore 64

Le di una segunda vida a esas cintas VHS con PCM processor Sony pcm 501es

I have a couple of HP COLORADO tape back drives, one is parralele and the other is EIDE, so internal. Only, a bit newer than the Ditto and can take larger capacity tapes. Took ages to back up, but there were for files only, documents, photos and that sort of thing. You back up when you are not using the machine at night. The same with the Ditto. I backed up all my computers on mine, via the network, worked great. I want to get the units back out and use them, well the internal one as i have no way of running the external one unless I get some sort of card with parallel connection . They were and still are reliable or as reliable as any other magnetic storage system. Tape drives are still sold and used, I know somone who still use tape drives to back things up. Great video.

Yes, I started with a $1,500 Beta HiFi machine back in the day then migrated to VHS HiFi, and considering you can still find curb-side VHS HiFi machines on garbage night, their value/performance equation far outweighs any alternative format of its day.

I am in Canada. I did not buy the ZX-81 when it was new. I bought its predecessor, the ZX-80 when it was new. It had even fewer features than the ZX-81, having only a 4K ROM instead of the ZX-81's 8K ROM. But it was my first computer and it was how I learned to program in BASIC. At the time I did consider buying the Vic-20 but the ZX-80 was cheaper. I still have the ZX-80 but it doesn't work now of course. It was quite amazing what people could do with only 1K of RAM, since the 16K pack didn't come out until ZX-81. At the time there was a huge aftermarket scene with companies selling everything from full-sized keyboards, to graphics cards, and disk controllers all piggybacking onto the expansion bus. Good memories.

Excellent tip. I was just looking at this adjustment on console5 site right before watching this. Also, taking apart and cleaning the power switch contacts can solve problems with glitched graphics and more.

Could you offer some advice? I've transferred all my VHS with a Sony DVD recorder. Did well, nice resolution, but not smooth playback, even on crt. However, one more time, I'd like to do it all over again at the best quality I can muster; not upscaled, as analog as I can keep it. Just a direct transfer. Here's my setup: VCR => Black Magic Mini Analog to SDI => Black Magic Ultra Studio Recorder => 2018 Mac Mini running OBS So, that's: S Video to SDI cable to Thunderbolt 3 cable to the Mac Mini. I can get the video I'm after, 525i at NTSC 23.97fps, but no audio. It's just not working. In your opinion, could the Intensity Pro 4K get me there?