Hehe thank you!

Glad it was helpful!

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a cheapo Thomann. Not recommended for good quality recordings.

Depends on the recorder.

@@soundelegy5987 ok thanks

Not good. Better use a trustworthy brand like Sony, Nakamichi, Sanyo or Panasonic.

Glad it helped out ✌🏻

Amorphous heads are made from glass and therefore last longer (technically). The trebles are supposed to be clearer as well. They were introduced in the late 80s

Damn, that's not an easy problem to fix. Maybe they need lubrication?

@@soundelegy5987 I fixed all the mechanical issues with mine but then after running it a bit it died randomly. The motor and everything still works but no audio not even a hum. There was a transistor inside that got so hot it burned me so I'm wondering if having it properly running for a few minutes exposed another issue haha

I think the title is extremely accurate. It's been online for 4 years and this is the first time I hear this. So all good :) If you think "How to record the analog output of a digital source onto a cassette tape" is a better title then you're not considering simplicity as a way to reach a broader audience. Most people just want their music coming from a phone or laptop onto a cassette. For them that's just digital to analog.

@@soundelegy5987 you may think the title is extremely accurate but if you were an audio professional you would know the difference and know why your title is incorrect. I'm not going to waste any more time but quit trying to bury things in the sand

And that's exactly why you're mistaken. You think this video is meant for audio professionals, maybe like yourself, but it's actually for regular folks with basic to no knowledge of the audiophile lexicon. That's why the title is spot on.

It really depends on the model. A line in port will work pretty much every time but a mic in could be only mono or a low level signal.

I think it's only cassette to mp3 and the quality of the recording is very poor. I'd look elsewhere.

Hey there! Sorry to say but I don't really have time to repair devices from viewers :(

@soundelegy5987 hey man thanks to your video I was actually able to fix it!!!

Glad to hear that ✌🏻

@@soundelegy5987 would you know any good ways to get cassets?

You should be looking into Cassette Tape Duplicators like the Recordex USA Soundmaster IV.

Hey there! Hehe I'm still around :) The belt should just be extended but not stretched out. There should be no extra tension apart from the one needed to lay it down flat.

Hey! The Sony TC-S1 is a great unit 👌🏻

@@soundelegy5987 thanks !

Do you have a recorder yet?

@@soundelegy5987 I've tried with some handheld Sony ones. But holding out on a specific one until I know what I'm doing.

The Sony TC-S1 is a great stereo recorder with metal, chrome and type 1 recording capabilities. Avoid shoebox style units.

Hey there! Which ports does it have for CD/Video? RCA+Yellow?

@@soundelegy5987It has L and R. No colours on it. The L and R are both under PHONO and CD/VIDEO.

If it is RCA I would definitely try that port.

@@soundelegy5987 Thanks for your assistance man, but unfortunately my cassette deck has died, and no way to fix. I will most likely buy a new one though and follow your advice. Thanks!

@@soundelegy5987 Sorry for once again bothering you. I bought a new cassette deck, from a technician this time. This deck also only has CD/TUNER/VIDEO/PHONOS inputs, and after trying RCA to 3.5mm in the CD slot, it worked succesfully with the speakers playing music I was playing. Does this mean I can now record onto the cassette?

That's quite similar. You need a recording software and then an RCA to 3.5mm Jack adapter. Considering you have a standard onboard audio.

@@soundelegy5987 Thanks!

Haha I remember the first CDs as well, the mastering and mixing processes were so bad that vinyls had an edge for a couple years. Luckily my brothers and I understood quite fast that CDs were meant to die very fast because what's the point of saving your music in zeros and ones (binary code) in an external disc when you can save it directly on your HDD? New generations of external data storage would mean an even faster death of the format. And so came DVDs, Mini Discs, Blue Rays, etc. I think we had a maximum of 50 CDs before returning to vinyl once again. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻

@@soundelegy5987 i in the first years till 93 ,had only 7 cds ,mainly because i went to Lisbon, Portugal to see concerts , and at the time this was a country still getting out of a dictatorship and records that were never released in Portugal because they were subversive to the minds of young men ,one when entering the stores had all organised by the name of the bands than you could look at all albuns from each band and buy whatever you wanted and cd´s that were better built ,i know i have 7 titles from those days ,were doble the price of a record (vinyl) and even thinking of buying this or that cd one would find another album that one really wanted and ended up buying two records instead of one cd ,in the 90´s in 93 the stores all closed and when opening again two weeks later only a few LP´s in the basement and all full of cds ,so the main reason why i bought morecds in 93 but when going to madrid,Spain they had all new albums in cd and also in vinyl ,so only in my country Portugal lp´s weren´t available and one started to notice that cds had not the same quality as records because ,thinking i would have a better sound but that was a wish of something better and in the 90´s cds were made of a cheaper material but in Portugal ,where i live and was born the cds become cheaper but if you ordered from the U.S. or U.K. or Germany they would be less expensive ,paying transport and also being tired of having a old system allthough today is still much better than most i hear in hi-fi stores or demonstrations i was tired of looking all my life to older stuff and i payed a lot of money for ES system from Sony ,well the next years after selling all boughta entire nakamuichi system because i was told they were the best ,not even a year later i sold everything again and having good hi-fi systems from Pioneer, i bought all pioneer minus the speakers that had already bought some new series of cerwin-vegas the most expensive model they had also some mission Argonaut mkII (200watts)and 96 DB /sensivety, and with a mix of second hand and new i had again a urushi pioneer complete system. being happy with the purchase i was in Lisbon for the weekend in a friends house that was renting the extra rooms of his house to 3 otherguys who instantelly become my friends ,they tell me thatin open air fair they were selling records ,very cheap and by what today is 20 cents.all labels were selling all albums from every band and also independent labels , i had taken a old merecdes to Lisbon a 71 350SE ,it is a huge car i filled it twice only leaving space to myself to drive, did this twice and at the third time i had to bring back my other 3 friends who also had bought albums fromm bands they didn´t like but because all were studying arts ,they bought the better looking covers ,and i don´t remenber how many but were thousands of titles, i even bought a new thorens turntable and i had already 7 good turntables, so cds were loosing the fight and bought many with great sound or never had heard the vinyl version, then CD-R appeared and i spent on a big pioneer recorder almost what today is 1.000€ and recording at standart speed but after all this years the older recorded cds i have still play perfec t and the quality was exactelly the same of the original but limited at 3 copy´s from each original cds ,.some that fell and were 20 years behind a piece of furniture ,all yellow and missing bit´s of the material where the music is recorded sound perfect ,the same can´t say abnout the cd-roms i had in early 2000´s but that´s when they started to have a quality very near the original some think there are no diferencies and recorded at 52X the strandart speed, now i started to record again cassettes because in 2017 i had a pioneer top end model deck the CT-93 and changed his belts and had boxes of tdk cassettes only sa-x and some SA and AR ,AD, AD-x as i always prefered type I cassettes because of the reels that have much better sound and mainly ferric tapes ,and more faithfull to the original sound,again earlier in time a friend who worked in a big surface warehouse phoned me and tells me "they are going to incinerate all cassettes they still have also minidiscs ,that i also brought some boxes of TDK and all were black ,again 400kms in the old mercedes and fit the most i could of boxes filled with cassettes and some of minidisc too maybe 2.000 only and i wanted to give some money to this friend to what he replyed "no, i don´t want money ,later you´ll pay me a beer", now i already recorded 120 cassettes and have restored 17 of my 58 cassette decks,this because my father died recentelly and all that was his related with music came to me my sister and brother didn´t want nothing of that garbage they told me and i have a huge colection of hi-fi components and music in all known formats and maybe 3 or 4 8-track cartridges that my father kept because it was what he hear with my mother when happy with her, in reality i have now maybe 5.000 cds and my father´s cds that he had good taste, so maybe he had around 10.000 cds and 20.000 records and also reels

For sure. AT had top notch carts and tone arms. Excellent headphones overall as well. I'm happy they're having a comeback in the market. I have many friends using their new turntables nowadays. They are affordable and they sound really good for the price. In between Pro-Ject, the new Rega P1 and AT LP timetables, I think there hasn't been a better time for entry level setups. Maybe Japan during the 80s can only rival it. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻

Indeed. The technology has been there for a few decades already, although the devices were quite big and obtrusive. Remotes by wireless frequencies have been there for quite a while already. Thank you for the insight 🙏🏻

Definitely the 80's were a great time for HiFi audio in Europe. England has always produced amazing quality speakers and power amplifiers. Monitor audio, KEF and Cambridge Audio to name a few. To this day my home setup is mostly British equipment. Unfortunately nowadays it's not like before and finding someone to repair audio gear is very difficult and very expensive. Here in Berlin we have only one or two excellent cassette deck repair guys but you have to wait sometimes for months for an appointment. Luckily with KZfaq tutorials and buying spare parts from China, you can DIY pretty much 80% of the repairs needed. Thank you for sharing once again 🙏🏻