Posts Tagged ‘stereo’

This video is pretty much a restoration of a concord 994 portable reel to reel, in the process of restoring, was one of their best at the time, even features autoreverse and is a hybrid tube and transistor, uses a pair of 6BQ5′s and a 12BH7-A for driver stage, the preamp and record stage is transistors. Am going to do a full restoration, clean contacts replaced capacitors drive and counter belts and relube whole transort and clean and rejuvenate rubber. Does actually fully work now, just noisy due to loose drive belt, after minor repair was done. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RESTORE OR REPAIR YOUR REEL TO REEL YOURSELF! There is lethal voltage present, even unplug, as capacitors are usually fully charged.

This is just a little video chat about stereo reel to reel tapes that I bought in the 1960′s when I had an Estey ETR70 three head stereo tape recorder. I needed some commercial music for the machine because: “Testing 1-2-3-4 is not particularly entertaining for a very long period of time.” Enjoy. ********* Copyright Disclaimer: This is an educational video. It iscovered by the Fair Use Section of US Copyright Law: “Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.” The products shown in the video are out of print. No music from them is played.

This is a trailer for a video series about the Wollensak 1288 Stereo Tape Recorder Restoration done by ClydeSight Productions www.clydesight.com in early 2012. To see the entire Wollensak 1288 Restoration Video Series as a playlist, click here www.youtube.com The trailer shows what viewers can expect to find in the full video series that documents the restoration of a vintage stereo tape recorder that arrived DOA at ClydeSight Productions. It had both mechanical and electronic problems, including failed electrolytic capacitors and a dangerously arcing amplifier circuit. All has been repaired and the reel to reel tape recorder is restored to full functionality. The Wollensak 1288 stereo tape recorder was issued in 1965, based on the well known and extremely stable transport used in the Wollensak T1500 and 1400 series of mono tape recorders. With the 1288, Wollensak introduced a fine quality stereo component machine that was meant to be used in a full stereo system. Although it could be used as a tape deck, the machine featured a high quality dual hybrid amplifier, using the famous 6T9 tubes for power amplification on top of a 2N3009 transistor preamplifier. When sold, the machine came with two outboard bookshelf speakers. The speakers shown in the video series are actually made by Zenith. Ironically, Wollensak made reel to reel tape decks for installation in Zenith console stereo units. Fans of Wollensak vintage tape recorders will enjoy the full video series as ClydeSight …

If I Die Young recorded and playing on an Akai 4000DS MK-II. Quoted from Wikipedia.com: “If I Die Young” is the title of a song written by Kimberly Perry and recorded by American country group The Band Perry. It was released as their second single in June 2010, and serves as the lead-off single to the group’s self-titled debut album, which was released on October 12, 2010.

Akai GX-215D Reel to Reel is a 3 head, 2 speed (3 3/4 & 7 1/2 ips), 3 motor with Glass X’TAL Ferrite Head This particular unit has had the main drive motor cleaned and lubricated. Pots and switches have been cleaned as have the pinch roller and full tape path. Tape heads have been cleaned and demagnetized. All features have been fully tested with the exception of the front mic inputs. Playback and record levels appear to be rock solid. Tape speed is locked in and playback is superb on both 3 3/4 & 7 1/2 IPS speeds. Inputs and outputs are good too. The demonstration of the GX-215D was played through a Pioneer VSX-1015TXK A/V Receiver in 2.1 Stereo Mode. The speakers consist of one pair of modified IM Fried Fried Signature Series Q/3 Speakers with bass support from an M&K VX-1250 Sub-woofer crossed @ 80 Hz. The Fried speakers have been modified. The original tweeters were replaced by a pair of Philips 25mm soft dome tweeters. Audio source for recording is a Philips portable CD player. All video and audio has been captured using a Panasonic 3CCD Standard Definition video camera. The audio may appear to be slightly louder in the right channel (as it should be) due to the fact that the camera and Akai deck were positioned slightly left of the left channel. Video has been edited using Windows Movie Maker.

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I now have the system completely set up…thanks a lot to Shaneorlando for the components. This includes a JVC CD player, Teac Cassette & Reel to Reel machines, Sansui speakers, and Marantz turntable.

The reel to reel’s name is Robert.

This is the second part to tghe video, I tried to make it under 10 minutes but I allways over-explain everything. In this part I do some recording demonstrations.

This is the second part to tghe video, I tried to make it under 10 minutes but I allways over-explain everything. In this part I do some recording demonstrations.