Metal Flywheels in a $35 Cassette Player

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While looking through Amazon, I came across one of the inexpensive, portable cassette players with copper flywheels. In addition, it was auto-reverse and a clear, transparent case. Well, that was too much for me to pass up, especially with the price.
Once I received the purchase and started testing, the quality of the deck wasn't too my liking, and based on the reviews, I thought maybe it was just a poorly designed unit, so I requested a replacement, which is the unit we are looking at today.
How does it stack up to older, walkman-style cassette players or the newer devices from Fiio and We Are Rewind? Let's find out on today's episode.
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Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - Opening Titles
00:50 - Unboxing
04:45 - Ambient sample audio tests
06:15 - Wow & Flutter
07:40 - Adjusting speed and Azimuth tutorial
10:11 - Testing Auto-reverse
10:52 - MP3 testing with Audacity
11:40 - Thoughts and Conclusion

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16 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 35

@Truly_XOXO 4 месяца назад

i literally just ordered this and then your video popped up! thanks for the info couldnt find any decnt reviews on this model

@heywhatisnext 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the comment. I hope you enjoy it.

@miroslawkaras7710 3 месяца назад

To test wow and flatter you do not need special prerecorded tape. Just record the tone on tape and play and check the wow and flatter. Whatever number you get just divide by 2.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and the feedback.

@SinaFarhat 4 месяца назад

Nice! One major downside with the modern cassette players is no dolby encoding as dolby stopped licensing out that technology.

@heywhatisnext 4 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and the comment. Yes, I totally agree that no Dolby encoding is a bummer.

@zoomosis 3 месяца назад

For the price it's not bad and will do the job for digitising a few old cassettes, but anyone serious about preserving audio quality from an old tape will be using an actual cassette deck and a USB audio interface. It's not very often these days that people need to do that though. There's obviously not much need for digitising a cassette of Van Halen's OU812 when you can stream it or buy it on CD. The novelty of cassette's limited audio quality wears off pretty quickly.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching. Totally agree.

@fins59 3 месяца назад

I'm looking to buy a good modern portable cassette player so liked this video and will be very interested if you compare the different brands that are available now and especially if you compare them with a classic Walkman/Panasonic/Teac etc.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching. Sounds like a good idea. Stay tuned.

@dazbatch2532 Месяц назад

Copper looks like brass but I’ll take your word for it that it is copper

@heywhatisnext Месяц назад

Thanks for watching. That’s what it stated in the Amazon listing, so take that with a grain of salt. Even the Fiio cassette player webpage shows similar looking flywheels.

@jonidoe4732 3 месяца назад

Interesting; I wonder what the carriage in it is. I know a lot of the new Walkmans have the exact same basic one in them. I’ve just today finished refurbishing an old Sanyo for daily use listening to taped DJ mixes.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching. Very cool to read about the refurbished Sanyo. Yes, the mechanism in my cassette player looks like all the others outside of the metal wheels.

@jayglenn837 3 месяца назад

It's such a pity that Dolby isn't licensing its noise reduction anymore.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

I totally agree. You’d think it would be easy money for Dolby. Thanks for watching.

@bubexpress5435 3 месяца назад

can you make a video on the fiio cp13 it's the best new walkman style cassette player you can buy and vwestlife also did a video on this

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching, and I’ll try my best.

@joelcarrillo3515 Месяц назад

I got one and it doesn’t work the heads don’t spin

@heywhatisnext Месяц назад

Sorry to read about that. Can you return it? Thanks for watching

@montynorth3009 3 месяца назад

Can you hear much motor noise over headphones when the volume is turned fully up?

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Hi, Monty, and thanks for watching. I just did a test and there is a noticeable motor noise hum. While music is playing it’s not bad. I did compare the noise with another portable tape deck, and that one didn’t have the motor noise. I’ll try to post a short on this so you can hear for yourself.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

I just posted a RU-vid short on the motor noise, if you’re interested.

@henrikgustav2294 3 месяца назад

These are $18 in asia

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and the info.

@ccooper2654 3 месяца назад

Brass

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching. Yep, you’re probably right.

@trsmith2442 3 месяца назад

Sure looks like brass not copper.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching. Several viewers commented on this. Going to try the magnet test, but either way, having metal flywheels can’t hurt :-)

@trsmith2442 3 месяца назад

@@heywhatisnext Very true. Btw I don't think a magnet test will tell you anything about copper vs brass since both aren't magnetic.

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

@@trsmith2442 Duh! I should have known better. Thanks for the clarification.

@jakeflo8477 3 месяца назад

doesn't look like copper, it's more likely brass.. but who cares what flywheels are made of?!

@heywhatisnext 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching. Yes, you’re probably right on the brass. As far as why this is important, most inexpensive cassette players use plastic wheels which produce poor audio, specifically with wow and flutter. VWestLife did a video about this a while ago with the current crop of cassette decks.

@zoomosis 3 месяца назад

Heavier flywheels should reduce wow and flutter by levelling-out any imperfections in the rest of the drive system, notably in the belt.