I loved the period  of stereo receivers  with  beautiful fm  dial numbers,vu meters , turntables ,cassette  , reel recorders .   Best of all the music of the 70s was the very finest.

I went over a decade without any cassette deck… now I have 5 with new belts. I can’t stop getting these for free or dirt cheap 😃

I tend to like cassette decks from the early 90’s best. It was when manufacturing interest and technology were at their best. The 70’s units are beautiful and sometimes easier to service but they were usually 2 head decks with single capstan. I have a JVC TD V661 from the early 90s. It has 3 heads, dual capstan, record signal calibration and electronic door. It’s very quiet operating and makes excellent recordings.

ive never stopped using cassettes.ive spent many years making the format better by modding the bias circuitry and running the tapes fast for amazing sound. i then build my own tape players for my own use that have spectrum anaylizers equalizers and vu displays using circuits and boards i manufacture myself using easy EDA.

All of them deserve a repair job, that Kenwood one will be sweet!

"sacrificial cassette". Good band name.

Hello Dr Cassette! I'm a bit speechless. More than 20 years ago I bought a nice second-hand Dual cassette deck. It had exactly the same "problem" as the Telefunken! Only DIN connections. I Was using a passive DIN/RCA adapter and the deck was way to sensitive on the inputs. I thought the deck was broken and returned it to the seller. He gave me some money back and I went home with a (also very nice) Akai deck. But now I find out that the deck wasn't broken at all...

Fix the Kenwood it has AutoBias for best tape performans and parallel recording !

Technics and Kenwood are my choices

I’ve just discovered Your channel and have watched the Kenwood repair where You were losing patience!, I think Your sense of humour is Great and I’m learning a lot, Thanks 😁👍

Really sweet collection of cassette decks. Interesting video my friend. I got started in tape use back in 1974 when I purchased my first hifi cassette deck, a Pioneer CT-f2121. I ran that sucker into the ground making tapes. Subsequent decks I've owned over the years; Akai CS-f12, Nikko ND-590ll, Onkyo TA630D, Akai GX-f31, Technics RS-m224 and my current decks are a Yamaha KX-260 and most recently acquired a Denon DRM-800A ($125). Cassettes were much better (safer) than trying to play LP's while stoned, drunk or tripping. Ah, the 1970's.

O god....i miss those sweet cassette days😭

I still enjoy my load of cassettes TDK MA-R90 on my Nakamichi Dragon that I bought in 1986. Too bad it was so expensive so more could have enjoyed lending an ear or two to it. Then, AKAI cassette player were excellent, so were Pionner high end units. The cassettes are not dead in my home and I hope the Nakamichi last me many more years.

Ten days ago I picked up three faulty cassette decks for 30€ from, like you, a local ad. One was almost identical to that Nordmende, mine is a Thomson CD305 and unlike yours it has a powered mechanism that looks to made by Sanyo, same as one I also have. I also got a Uher CG310 which according to the service manual is the same as those two brown Telefunken units you have. Here I must warn you, the fast wind in it is a rack of gears driven off the capstan. The main one (which is also a clutch !) has a central metal shaft inserted into a white plastic tab. Guess what happened to that tab over time, as the metal heated/ expanded and later cooled /contracted...I repaired it, but I spent way too long and would not do it again. I have photos of that process if you are curious!

Since it was designed to be part of a midi system, the black Technics deck may not have a recording monitor, since when recording on such a system, you would always be listening to the source, not the tape.

All these cassette decks need to be restored and played. This is history of the best kind.

I like the Kenwood, I think it's a quality deck however...you can't beat the Sanyo for needly VU meter action . I miss them :-)

A real bargain for 20 euros, your knowledge will sort them out all of nine.

Oh that's what you bought for our entertainment. Nice. I like cassette deck's very much.

i have the Telefunken TC450 in ~ 1978. Was a good TapeDeck with HighCom. Plays good and makes great records on TDK Type2 Tapes.